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Good news, finally, but unlikely to last
Bits of good news all around. The US House of Representatives, after months of allowing a small number of dissenting Republicans to block vital expanded aid to Ukraine (as well as infusions for Israel and Taiwan), has now approved it. Israel has retaliated against Iran for last weekend’s massive barrage of missiles and drones. It managed to do so without provoking any further escalation. And on a…
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Kosovo is more qualified than Serbia
Serbian MP, Simonovic Bratic:"This is the downfall of Europe that once a lot of people dreamed of.""If you let Kosovo in, you are rejecting Serbia, you are expelling Serbia." pic.twitter.com/bLG1lqthc5— Admirim (@admirim) April 16, 2024
She is a Serbian representative at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.
Serbia is currently engaged in a ferocious campaign to block Kosovo membership…
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Proactive would be better
Tehran is justifying its barrage of more than 300 drones, cruise and ballistic missiles fired at Israel last weekend as “proportional” to the provocation. That provocation was an Israeli attack on an Iranian consular facility in Damascus that killed high-ranking officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Israel is justifying its 6-month attack on Gaza that has killed more than…
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The wider war has arrived, when will peace?
Iran yesterday retaliated against Israel for its bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which killed high ranking officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles was ineffective, due to Israeli, American, British, and Jordanian air defenses. The Iranians made no secret of what they intended to do and presumably are hoping it will not…
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A good lesson in diplomacy
Ten days with family in Rome have emboldened me to tell the tale of the Embassy’s Giambologna Venus:
That’s her on the right, at the National Gallery. Sorry I can’t find a better picture.
She is the single most valuable piece in the State Department’s worldwide art collection. The story dates to my time as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge’ d’affaires ad interim 1990-93.
All cooperation
Paul…
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Equality is for everyone
This week I joined dozens of colleagues in signing this letter to President Biden about Gaza. I suppose some would say it reflects the herd mentality of the Washington foreign policy establishment. I prefer to think it reflects a judicious appraisal of a bad situation likely to worsen if Israel continues its large-scale assault at Rafah.
Letter-to-President-Biden-on-GazaDownload
That said, let…
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Double down on success, not failure
Kaltrina Kamberi (@ThisisKaltri) transcribes the key piece of this as: “Of course you know that we work every day with the Serbian army. We had training, we had a number of things with the Serbian army. So I’m not sure I can accept the premise of the question, because we’re doing a lot more together now than with the KLA or whatever came out of them.”
24 hours after signing a security agreement…
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C+ is not a good grade
In his latest veiled warmongering threats Vucic yesterday warned the West that they must choose between Kosovo and Serbia. If they choose Kosovo, Serbia will “wait for the best possible momentum and we will seize our opportunity”. pic.twitter.com/iExGzctOOr— Demush Shasha (@DemushShasha) March 18, 2024
President Vucic, like Putin, tells you what you need to know. It really is not veiled.
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A new book is a joy. Hackers are not.
Some of you will have noticed my hiatus in posting lately. It has two imminent causes. I’ve been proofing my new book. And Gmail has blocked my account, due to hacking efforts Google attributes to a foreign government. Regular readers will know the likely culprits. I hardly need mention my other (welcome) obligations. I am reading three doctoral dissertations, I recently trained some Syrians in…
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When Jews and Arabs agree and disagree
The horrors of the October 7 attack and the Gaza war are all too present. But it is notable that at least some Arabs and Jews are reacting in similar, if not identical ways. At least I find that true in the US and hope it is true more widely.
Atrocity is atrocity
Most of the Jews and Arabs I come into contact with find both the Hamas attack and the Israeli reaction atrocious. Both are prepared…
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Gaza questions are easier than answers
The New York Times has already described how Netanyahu’s plan for postwar Gaza clashes with everyone else’s thinking. Netanyahu wants a full-fledged re-occupation of Gaza, complete with puppet Palestinian government there. He is already clearing a buffer zone inside the Gaza fence and wants to control the Egyptian/Gaza border as well. He imagines that UNRWA can be abolished. Israeli-selected…
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Stevenson's army, February 18
– WaPo book review tells how anti-tax movement captured GOP
– WaPo columnist sees value in Washington books
– CRS has new background paper on the budget process
– Brookings has a debate about Ukraine policy
– I like DARPA and wish DOD would do more OTA. Here’s background on the approach.
– Pakistani official admits election rigging
Fred Kaplan skewers Tucker Carlson
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Stevenson's army, February 17
– NYT says Israel was behind attacks on Iranian pipelines
– WaPo says Russia has been running disinformation campaign against Zelensky
– Politico says UAE limits US attacks in region
– Ukraine withdraws from Avdiivka
– Brookings tracks Ukraine data
– Oscar-winning Navalny documentary is available on HBO MAX
Survey shows Republican parents are raising Democratic daughters.
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The best president Russia never had
Three years on, but far from outdated.
I don’t often watch two-hour videos. But a couple of years ago I did watch this one. It helps to explain today’s news that Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison. May his memory be a blessing. Radek Sikorski, once again Poland’s Foreign Minister, said it well on NPR this morning: Navalny will be remembered as the best president Russia never had.
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Stevenson's army, February 16
Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.pic.twitter.com/0xmKJX0Uu4Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished…— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) February 15, 2024
– CBO says interest on the debt will cost more than defense this…
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Stevenson's army, February 15
Economist editor @zannymb tells @jonstewart that arming Ukraine "is the cheapest possible way for the US to enhance its security. The fighting is being done by the Ukrainians, they're the people who are being killed. The US and Europe are supplying them weapons."Left… pic.twitter.com/bSNPBTeohq— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 13, 2024
Almost jaw dropping…
– The House intelligence committee…
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Stevenson's army, February 14
Biden: “Can you imagine, a former president of the U.S. saying that? The whole world heard it. The worst thing is he means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator…For God's sake, it's dumb, it's shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s unAmerican.” pic.twitter.com/NvPWqCXZay— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 13, 2024
Trump sees a protection racket because…
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