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Iran Spy Chief Qaani ‘Perfectly Healthy.’ Will Get Medal
"Esmail Qaani is, unfortunately, alive," someone joked on social media Wednesday.
I actually don't know if it was a joke. I though it was funny. In a deadpan kind of way.
Qaani -- Iran's top general and Qassem Soleimani's successor as head of the Quds Force -- was missing for quite a while. The Quds would tell you he was never missing. Earlier this week, one of Qaani's deputies said he was "in good health" and carrying out his "activities" in Lebanon. But according to a pair of senior Iranian
It seems like Israel will go after the Houthis next (thus eliminating all of Iran’s significant tentacles) before turning towards IRGC and Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The myth that the US can use its USDs/economic might and military power to keep peace on a global scale has been shattered, yet again. Switzerland’s approach continues to look like the way to go.
I think the Houthis will stop eventually. This isn’t their fight, and they know that. Plus, if they’re smart, they need to focus on the long-term. They’ve been in de facto power in Yemen for ~eight years. If they hang on — and tone it down — they have an outside shot at limited international recognition. Not to suggest they’re going to be welcomed with open arms as a full-fledged member of the global community, but eventually, and assuming they don’t commit a bunch of atrocities on the populace, the facts on the ground will pretty much demand that they be “accepted” (with scare quotes) as the government. That humanitarian crisis can’t go on forever. They need help to manage it, and if they’d just cease and desist from acting in ways that perpetuate the (distasteful) “crazy goat herder” memes, they might just get some. Help, I mean.
Big US cannot be tiny Switzerland. In this changed world, arguably Switzerland cannot be Switzerland without NATO/US.
Careful, that almost sounds like an “America First” advocacy position.