Tom Friedman just can’t stop shilling for Mohammed bin Salman:
The crown prince wants as peaceful a region as possible, and a Saudi Arabia as secure from Iran as possible, so he can focus on making Saudi Arabia a diversified economic powerhouse.
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Author Benjamin Abelow sits down with Clayton Morris to discuss his excellent book How the West Brought War to Ukraine. Clayton Morris is a former FOX News anchor who hosts the podcast Redacted News.
While Paris continues to flirt with the possibility of a troop deployment in Ukraine, recent reports that French Foreign Legion soldiers have already arrived on the battlefield may not be what they seem.
The claims appear to have originated with a Russian war blogger known as ‘Military Chronicle,’ who runs a popular Telegram channel and is active elsewhere on social media. In an April 12 post on VK, the channel alleged that the “first units of the French Foreign Legion” had been stationed in the city of Slavyansk, but cited no sources to support the assertion.
On COI #587, Kyle Anzalone discusses the War in Ukraine and Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
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The Guardian reports that the Saudis are looking to make a separate deal with the U.S. in which Washington gives them everything they want in exchange for nothing:
All three parts of the draft deal involve the US giving vital strategic assistance to Saudi security. In place of progress towards Israeli-Palestinian peace, the Saudi monarchy is presenting a purely bilateral deal as a US win in its efforts to contain Iranian expansionism and in Washington’s “great-power competition”, particularly with China.
This “less for less” agreement is no better for the U.S. than one that also involves Israel. In both arrangements, the U.S. is expected to hand out major favors and commitments and gets nothing for its trouble except extra burdens in the future. The Saudis don’t want the free giveaway to be put at risk by tying it to an agreement with Israel, and they are naturally still happy to accept the bribe that Biden was going to give them for normalization. It is clearly a bad, one-sided deal that creates new obligations for the U.S. that we can’t afford.
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Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place.
Was great to see CNN’s Dana Bash trending on Twitter yesterday. Uh, what? Well, it transpired because thousands were bashing her (ahem) after she compared threats to Jews in the U.S. this week to dangers for them in Europe in the 1930s. She later claimed that anti-semitism is “raging across the U.S.” Joe Scarborough this morning called his MSNBC viewers “too stupid to see” that the protests were hurting Biden’s re-election prospects.
The most striking example of violence, however, took place at UCLA this week with about 200 counter-protestors attacking a pro-Palestine encampment (filled, as it happens, with many Jewish students) with fireworks and other objects, injuring about twenty-five as police stood by. Police were then ordered to clear the encampment early this morning, with dozens of arrests.
Continue reading “Student Sit-ins and Wild in the Streets: My Own Story, Back in 1968”
