Alex Almeida
@AlexAlmeida2020
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Regional security analyst @horizonengage. Focused on Iraq/KRI, Yemen, and the Gulf states. PhD candidate @warstudies. Views very much my own.
Joined June 2013
Iran redux. Trump concluded talks were going nowhere.
This should go down well in Doha. "US President Donald Trump gave the green light for the Israeli strike in Qatar, a senior Israeli official tells Channel 12."
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More than 10 Israeli Air Force fighter jets dropped over 10 munitions in the strike on Hamas's leadership in Qatar, according to military officials. The munitions all hit a building where Hamas leaders were believed to have been gathered within seconds. En route to carrying out
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to address the “climate emergency” when the coming world-wide demographic-fiscal crunch is unfolding much more rapidly and will undoubtedly have a much more profound impact on human society, development, and the global power landscape over the next 25-75 years.
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I find bizarre how we have big-brain folks with global name brand recognition like eg Adam Tooze (not picking on him, he’s just one of the few undeniably intelligent ones) moaning about how we need to plow trillions of $$$ into totally restructuring the global economic system…
Apologies for the delay, but here is the new birth update! I added Wales, Bolivia and Paraguay to the list.
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One of the more perplexing features of this conflict has been each member of the Axis of Resistance independently concluding in spite of all evidence: “But they would never target our in-person meeting of principals in [known volcano lair].”
Targeted in an Israeli strike 1800 in from Israel in Doha, the heart of the Hamas-sponsoring state of Qatar: Khalil Al-Hayya Khaled Meshal Mahmoud Zahhar Zaher Jabarin Maybe others Israel media still working to confirm whether these figures are eliminated. Confusion in Qatar
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One of the things that continues to be most incredible to me about this war is how the IAF and Israeli intelligence continue to successfully execute incredibly complex, risky, high-level ops Meanwhile the IDF is about as effective as a donkey with a machinegun strapped to it.
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Tuesday they carried out a targeted strike against senior Hamas leadership. According to the joint statement, those targeted had for years directed Hamas operations, including orchestrating the October 7 massacre and
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Simultaneous to the Israeli strike, Qatari Air Force F-15QA “Ababil” fighters were airborne over their own territory, flying racetrack patterns just west and south of Doha. They weren’t alone, the patrol stack was supported by U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus tankers and a UK
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Yes indeed.
Yes - I believe this. January 2, 2020 opened a hole in the fabric of space-time and switched us into the "you can just do things" timeline. I felt it that night.
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Al-Hayya went to university in Islamist-ruled Sudan back in the day where he first made contact with Iran's IRGC. He maintained those ties and was very much Iran's closest agent within Hamas.
Reports: Senior Hamas terrorist Khalil al-Hayya killed in the airstrikes
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Damn.
Today’s strike operation by the Israeli Air Force against the Headquarters of Hamas’ in the Qatari capital of Doha, has been dubbed “Operation Summit of Fire” by the Israeli Defense Ministry.
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one of the last old internet/forums culture moments I saw in the wild was this guy logging onto r/meth and was like hello! I am fighting in the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces and they pay us in meth! I love meth! and then posted photos of him rolling barrel bombs out of an An-26
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British historian Peter Brown at 14 years old, writing home to his parents from boarding school, in 1949:
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The revenge for Sykes-Picot is that both France and the UK are now failed dysfunctional states that can't govern themselves - give me a map and a ruler.
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I have no idea why people would summarize books through AI. When the right time comes for a book, every sentence gives new generative ideas and connections. Why not have the AI eat for you too?
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“Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments of our empire which we have left. Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”
The greatest hummingbird feeder ever created, a KC-135 bird feeder! 😎
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Another bold step in building the international coalition of industrial economies to counter China
The immigration raid on a Georgia EV battery plant run by two South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less than two weeks after the nation's companies pledged to invest hundreds of billions in the US
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It’s a combination of undeniably high raw IQ/mental processing power with a lack of broader cultural formation which leads to a sort of stunted personality type. Cf. Wheeler-Bennett on Ludendorff.
There is something so disgusting about so many young tech people - how they think, how they talk, how they act - and apparently there are no feedback mechanisms and no guideposts toward a less grotesque culture
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Trump: invest in America Our close treaty ally South Korea: sure, can you give our guys visas to set it up Trump: no ROK: ok we’ll do it on a different visa Trump: *arrests all the workers building the factory he celebrated (built via Biden policies)
ICE has released a video of its raid on Hyundai–LG's Georgia battery plant site, showing Korean workers chained up and led away. South Korea's foreign ministry has confirmed over 300 of the 457 taken into custody are Korean nationals.
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President Trump went on to say "If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success."
NEW: President Donald Trump suggested changing the name of Defense Department back to its pre-World War II moniker as the War Department, after the success in bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities - USA TODAY
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