#  @ELuttwak Edward N Luttwak
Edward N Luttwak posts on X about israel, iran, hamas, china the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Top Social Posts
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"When Russia invaded the Ukraine Obama was busy with his new diet & Brussels asleep.The Poles begged for NATO troops but the Finns just bought a bit more ammo & the Swedes restarted selective military service. Like Israel they prefer self-defense it is more decorous"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1288551638001754117) 2020-07-29T19:07Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"Keeping up w Artificial Intelligence is useful & fun. Watchful therefore over political infections. Demands for "Explainable and ethical AI" are destructive. AI at its best transcends human reasoning and "ethical" is a weasel word for the political refusal of objective results"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1293634530553868289) 2020-08-12T19:44Z 67K followers, [--] engagements
"Too sophisticated. Strategy is stronger than politics: even if Putin and XJP love each other & both hate Kamala Harris strategy dictates that Russia can live with a stronger US but not with a stronger PRC. In strategy you cannot choose your partners: they are chosen for you @ELuttwak China & Russia are natural rivals in the geoeconomic space of Eurasia. But theyre allied vs common "rival" - US. How do you see the Dragonbears approach of "not always with each other but never against each other" through systemic coordination in key sectors incl. military @ELuttwak China & Russia are natural"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1320167356484694017) 2020-10-25T00:56Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"Given the importance of the infantry its weakness in the PLA offers important opportunities. Plenty of intelligent officers: smart children of parents who cannot afford university go to military academies. But w enlisted the abundance of job opportunities leaves the left-overs"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1340720205249581058) 2020-12-20T18:06Z 68.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Iran sends rockets to the Kataeb it funds in Syria & the Israelis bomb them before they can be launched (ground intel). Now the US has hit equally precisely the [--] Kataeb whose rockets wounded US Cits outside Erbil Kurdistan. The anti-Israel Katiba in Washington is unhappy"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1365530403596042241) 2021-02-27T05:13Z 66.9K followers, [--] engagements
"I see in today's Khashoggi Post (aka Washington Post) that he fell victim to a Mephistophelian Israeli software that induced him to enter a Saudi consulate to obtain papers to marry one more wife. As an Islamist he was furious at the Saudis because they are US allies. ok for WP"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1417164694138331137) 2021-07-19T16:49Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"threatening Taiwan in warm caring tones. It might work. In spite of all that has happened Taiwan is still not building the national defense army of short-trained reservists that can preclude invasion. Instead it has generals in splendid uniforms https://x.com/tingtingliuTVBS/status/1622217426883727365 THREAD🧵: Its Lantern Festival in Asia today a day where family reunion is celebrated & PLA Eastern Command Theatre released a propaganda video targeted towards TW. Tone of the video is intentionally heartfelt & warm but message & images are quite disturbing to many in TW. 1/"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1622627726380105729) 2023-02-06T16:06Z 67K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Dissolving the Russian Federation is not like dissolving the USSR (a huge advance for humanity Russians 1st). It is like dissolving the Austro-Hungarian empire celebrated by many in [----] bitterly mourned by [----]. Only if the PRC is dissolved first can we do w/o the Russian Fed"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1626363539681161216) 2023-02-16T23:30Z 67K followers, 128.6K engagements
"Poles hate Russia & want to see it destroyed but Americans should not emulate their unstrategic emotion: merely by existing the Russian Federation contains Chinese power from Mongolia to Tajikistan via [--] "stans" while helping in India Laos Vietnam. Ukraine must not lose but"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1674262411627339779) 2023-06-29T03:43Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"disowning & abandoning his son or inviting him to the tycoon-rich White House dinner were the ONLY alternatives"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1674267404702982145) 2023-06-29T04:03Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
""Countries" survive as foreign conquerors come & go. Most "Chinese" dynasties were founded by non Han conquerors free of Sun Zi tricks who defeated Han-Chinese armies"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1674275021705846785) 2023-06-29T04:34Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"US TV news programs carry melodramatic Prigo-related stories that claim "Intelligence" sources ie the CIA which rarely provides useful Intelligence (satellite photography is produced by another agency) but is really excellent at "media relations" w news orgs & Hollywood"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1674576621951414274) 2023-06-30T00:32Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"There is no sign that the UKR war will end this year or this decade. Do not believe the UKR counter-offensive will reach Mariupol to cut off all Russian forces further west nor that Russians will descend from Belarus to cut off Kiev from Western supplies. Diplomacy anyone"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1674579492281499650) 2023-06-30T00:43Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"We are saved Our Climate Envoy Kerry is flying to China Last time he went he had "excellent meetings". After that China started work & in [----] inaugurated two large coal-fired power plants/week MUCH more than the capacity shut down globally. Kerry Save the jet fuel"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1678391172601991170) 2023-07-10T13:10Z 67.2K followers, [----] engagements
"ERDOGAN: "First let's clear the way for Turkey in the EU and then we clear the way for Sweden to join NATO as we did for Finland" . Having de-modernized the Turkish people by increasing head scarfs & damaging universitiesErdogan has made EU entry less likely nay impossible"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1678398520775024641) 2023-07-10T13:44Z 61.8K followers, 11.6K engagements
"From [----] when the Japanese invaded China they made good progress in establishing a new "conquest dynasty" a successor to the Ching set up by the Jurchen Manchus that lasted till [----]. Communists & Kuomintang could not resist the Japanese--no fighting spirit"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1678444544759676928) 2023-07-10T16:44Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"As the least distinguished of the [--] who signed full page ads against NATO expansion & v closely monitored what ensued I know for certain that Russia withdrew from a leadership role in NATO for only [--] reason:the ruler in the Kremlin must have enemies to justify his dictatorship"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1680960995328421890) 2023-07-17T15:21Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"By defeating the Russian coup de main + overland invasion of Feb [----] Ukraine won THAT war emerging in the process as a fully formed nation as it never was before +it also acquired a national myth in good working order-priceless for any nation. Now Ukraine needs peace to rebuild"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1681450224680595456) 2023-07-19T18:36Z 61.8K followers, 15K engagements
"No "bowing down": Americans keep going to Beijing to broadcast to all Chinese that Xi Jinping alone is driving them towards war just as XJP is the no.1 cause of China's catastrophic youth unemployment (his attacks on high-tech the tutoring industry etc). In Shanghai all know"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1682394980617158658) 2023-07-22T04:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Can see PRC actions but w zero insight in Party politics. Xi Jin Ping is now re-enacting Mao (battered-child syndrome: Mao locked up his father humiliated his mother starved [--] half-sister to death & enslaved another) & China faces ruin: he talks "martial spirit" non stop"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1682399860173991936) 2023-07-21T19:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When in Baghdad I saw part of Sadr City the fiefdom of Muqtada al-Sadr: there was uncollected garbage everywhere. Instead on calling on his followers to go out to clean up the streets where they live he sent them to burn down Sweden's chancery because of a rumored Quran burning"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1682544892730277889) 2023-07-22T00:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Xi Jinping's order to produce more grain is causing Party officials everywhere to increase arable land by deforesting recently forests cutting down orchards etc to plant wheat maize barley. But why is this happening https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-clue-china-is-preparing-for-war/ https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-clue-china-is-preparing-for-war/"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1682602467962281985) 2023-07-22T04:04Z 72.7K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Every day the New Y Times explains why affirmative action is a good thing. Have yet to see any reference to the abandonment of standards eg at Princeton the Classics Dept has renounced the Latin or Greek language requirement while in California Algebra [--] is under attack. Next"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1683160933244313600) 2023-07-23T17:34Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It was unfair to expect great victories from Ukraine's offensive against the much improved Russian army just because it received some Leopards. But a balanced US peace plan with plebiscites could still work because Russia needs its war exiles back & also access to the West"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1684683507514138624) 2023-08-03T09:55Z 61.8K followers, 29.4K engagements
"The Adm is giving $345 M in military aid to Taiwan a sum that amounts to [---------] of its 564.83B in foreign exchange reserves. What Taiwan needs to become serious about defending itself by firing KMT generals & training its population to defend the island with a missile militia"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1685686932825636865) 2023-07-30T16:20Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Manchin's intervention in Biden's recent multi-trillion spending initiatives reduced the amount just enough to make it possible to tame inflation--which is the cruelest tax that impoverishes working people while enriching the rich --but is often caused by the Left"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1685823987920572416) 2023-07-31T01:25Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"For the first time a Third Party candidate has a real chance to become the next President --if his name is Machin who has already saved us all from much loss by forcing spending cuts that enabled the Fed to cool inflation. Centrist Senator Joe Manchin ex Gov W Virginia can win"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1685832304919298048) 2023-07-31T01:58Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"The balance of power respects no moral claims. Russia is big. When big countries are defeated by smaller countries (& Ukraine won in [----] no doubt) they attack again. Eventually UKR will run out of soldiers and a good-enough settlement is needed long before then Thoughts on Edward Lutwak's (@ELuttwak) Proposal to End the War in Ukraine. Thoughts on Edward Lutwak's (@ELuttwak) Proposal to End the War in Ukraine"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1686032013910753281) 2023-07-31T15:12Z 67K followers, 37.3K engagements
"is it because the undemocratic gov (but just elected) dictates (but w a Knesset majority) a judicial coup (but to adopt the Europe-wide Gov-appointed judges system viz self-appointment that happened when judge-appointing Brits left BTW: Israel inflation less than US"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1686715248982499328) 2023-08-02T12:27Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"In the same vein in the opposite direction if the Attorney General does not appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the payment of millions by Ukraine gangsters to Hunter Biden to remove a prosecutor going after them--successfully after his father intervened Trump may win"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1686935077089898496) 2023-08-03T03:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese propaganda is contracted out to entrepreneurs who fund NGOs operated by the corrupt few & naive many. Eg Black Alliance for Peace Canadian Foreign Policy Institute CODEPINK International Action Center Mouvement de la Paix Pivot to Peace + [--] more. Needed: exposure"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1688222758025482241) 2023-08-06T16:17Z 61.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"The DC kill rate/ [-----] is x [--] the Israel/Palestine violent death rate & without any terrorist organization. The deaths are much-deplored by politicians but none propose a remedy. Pre-emptive "stop & frisk" worked well Discriminatory Yes.Not much point in frisking matrons etc"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1688293836798177280) 2023-08-06T20:59Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The new art of war: maneuver to appear in strength where the enemy is weak requires surprise. With radar satellite obs + all else there is no surprise. Hence linear defenses once hopeless now work because enemy concentrations are detected & matched. Fire wins over movement"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1688295530139385856) 2023-08-06T21:06Z 61.5K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Chinese & Russian warships just off Aleutian islands A sinister warning We should order [----] cruisers .even if none would be delivered for years owing to over-specifications Alternatively: accept reality. Surface warships can no longer hide--now they are just targets"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1688615313779142656) 2023-08-07T18:17Z 67K followers, 12.1K engagements
"China is building the world's biggest navy (even its Coast Guard vessels are bigger than US cruisers) because in Beijing they do not understand that maritime power requires alliances + ships. Having made enemies from Japan to India they keep turning out ships ie targets"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1688627539143524352) 2023-08-07T19:05Z 61.8K followers, 23.8K engagements
"once again Hiroshimais questioned ("Japan already defeatedno need to bomb). But the v realisticGen Staff Ketsu-go plan(April1945) prepared all-people attacks against US occupation troops w hand grenades swords sickles to kill [--] M so US would withdraw & let Hirohito rule"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1689486450197233664) 2023-08-10T03:58Z 61.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Now that 24/7 imagery precludes surprise reducing war to attrition Ukraine needs many more soldiers. In its independence war Israel mobilized 10% of the population that would be 3M for Ukraine but 1.5M might suffice (x [--] today). Z has just acted viz bribery to evade service"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690386144934969344) 2023-08-12T15:33Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I am surprised that even after war has returned to Europe most NATO forces have continued as usual w Navies still prioritizing "naval presence" ships that are mere targets AFs prioritizing buying a/c not flight hours or missiles and unserious training for 90% of ground forces"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690388251108917248) 2023-08-12T15:42Z 67K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Prigozhin was not attacking & was not attacked. It was a contractor dispute"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690392143930478593) 2023-08-12T15:57Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Fulton County Georgia has twice the US average property crime rate (& is violent too) But today its DA has an admiring page in the Washington Post for having dedicated her time to investigate Donald Trump. Another art in the WP explains why Trump benefits from his persecution"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690706253561925633) 2023-08-13T12:45Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Ukraine war has entered its "grin & bear it" period as it fights a Great Power that tried & failed to conquer it in a week last February and which is now organized for protracted war. Ukraine need not win a great victory to exit the war an indepedent nation only persistence"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690708560160690176) 2023-08-13T12:55Z 61.8K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Have tried to understand how ground warfare has changed because of 24/7 overhead visibility with radar satellites It is the same at sea so only submarines can persist in combat. Because surface ships are now only good for "presence" they should be cheap"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1690717217460047872) 2023-08-13T13:29Z 61.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"In the Wall Street Journal ex SecState Bolton blames Biden for the failure of Ukraine's offensive. Mr Bolton is unaware of today's 24/7 transparent battlefield: it denies surprise & imposes attrition in a battlefield much longer than the WWI Western Front. No magic weapons"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691077179365298176) 2023-08-14T13:19Z 61.8K followers, 12.6K engagements
"El Salvador's President Nayb Bukele did not just stop the killings but also the tacit mass enslavement of the weak to gangsters. The Washington Post disapproves (all have the right to cover themselves in gang tattos). That same attitude prohibits effective policing in Washington"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691198386530095105) 2023-08-14T21:21Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine is short of soldiers. In a war for national independence it should have more than 5% of the population in uniform: 1.5M .Part of the problem was recruitment avoidance by bribery on which Zelensky just acted"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691456129577144320) 2023-08-15T14:25Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Not rich Bill Clinton & Barack Obama became millionaires as they stepped out of the White House but now ignore their erstwhile millionaire supporters as they commune only w bodyguarded billionaires whose v few children are tutored & who oppose school choice & effective policing"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691485976399425538) 2023-08-15T16:24Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thank you for the numbers Mr. Kessler. Highly significant comparison especially because the US was not really invadable. Israel's numbers in 1948/49 were 10% of total pop in uniform 8.5% in combat forces. Ukraine does not have [-------] in combat forces. What is the number"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691498628169211913) 2023-08-15T17:14Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Against all the terribly obsolete anti-"red baiting" nonsense dredged up by the historically illiterate Opp film: Edward Teller once told me that he just could not persuade Opp that Stalin was no better than Hitler & that he resisted the H bomb effectively till found out"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691556455726399984) 2023-08-15T21:04Z 60.6K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Biden has all possible credentials for a peacemaker having been resolute in supporting Ukraine & in leading others to do so & equally resolute in resisting avoidable escalation. Now that both sides know that neither can win all is ready for a Biden peace plan with plebiscites"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1691566711047061678) 2023-08-15T21:45Z 61.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Veru loyal Prof Wang Linping wants "To establish Chinas dominant position in the international discourse related to Tibet -by not calling it Tibet. Wang favors "Xizang" Mandarin for Tibet. The PLA calls it the "Plateau Region to avoid using "Tibet". But Tibet lives on"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1692352484654698996) 2023-08-18T01:47Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"China propelled itself out of degrading misery (Beijing smelled like an open sewer when I first lived there in 1976) with the self-denial of peasants who invested in ducks & public hyper-investment in infrastructures + huge US investment. Now the Chinese consumer must stop saving"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1693342823406359025) 2023-08-20T19:22Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Beijing mosque question raises a larger one: how come the dozens of Muslim UN member states have done nothing at the UN not even by way of a mild complaint about Xi Jinping's destruction of Uyghur mosques including all their Korans & to Sinify Hui Mosques. Magna hypocrisia"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1693739829442302146) 2023-08-21T21:40Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The general press has noticed that the war in Ukraine has devolved from potentially decisive maneuver to attrition (as below). But editorialists have yet to recognize the diplomatic implication: only third parties can act to end the war"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1693744803337371694) 2023-08-21T22:00Z 61.8K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Was distressed to read in the Washington Post that the "special prosecutor" appointed to investigate Hunter Biden is the same Biden family friend who did not pursue the most serious (tax) charges instead allowing them to expire under the statute of limitations. Must be replaced"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1693802464410026004) 2023-08-22T01:49Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Re. Muslim states who do nothing to defend co-religionists in China. New & unprecedented: Han Muslims (Hui) flying abroad to any destination are interrogated to ascertain if they are headed to the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca & if so sent home (others underway are ordered back)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1693805395091878285) 2023-08-22T02:00Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Lo leggo ma non ci credo: in Italia c'e ancora gente che ripete la favola [----] del PCI che la mafia distrutta da.(oddio.non dire chi) fu rilanciata dal [----] dal agente Amerikano Lucky Luciano. Cioe': i Siciliani solo vittime passive. Lucky=Napoleone e Americani=malevolenti"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1694003163311771651) 2023-08-22T15:06Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Xi Jinping is not responsible for the sudden collapse of the debt-funded infrastructure gross over-investment machine. But it was his own choice to shut down the huge private tutoring business & attack high-tech causing mass new-graduate unemployment. Seething they "lie flat""
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1694008395240509717) 2023-08-22T15:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"As a taxpayer with a dilettante interest in Intelligence I wonder if the US Congress will ever examine the CIA's crippling refusals: 1) even its analysts refuse to learn languages not just station officers:2) its "covert operators" stick to Paris & Warsaw not Tehran or Beijing"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1694388906119049648) 2023-08-23T16:39Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"No need of "moles". CIA self-incapacitated. Analysts refuse to learn languages & so-called oh-so-brave "covert" agents operate in Paris w 100% safety never in Tehran where actually needed. Close fumigate restaff w Americans interested in foreign countries who know languages"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1694406222579954157) 2023-08-23T17:48Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Re Iran's " 30-second video set to thumping techno music showcasing its latest military drone the Mohajer-10 w a warning written in Hebrew: Prepare your bunkers. My question: can one UN member threaten to attack another UN member every other day without consequence"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1694468669881946171) 2023-08-23T21:56Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"unfair. not trained for combat. Good men among them no doubt but generals knowingly complicit in the theatrical simulation of a real army. Any retired Green Beret sergeant sent to Taiwan could start training conscripts & retrain regulars + separately retrain junior officers @ELuttwak Taiwan should send a couple of brigades to Ukraine to gain real world experience. @ELuttwak Taiwan should send a couple of brigades to Ukraine to gain real world experience"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1695434506633670674) 2023-08-26T13:54Z 66.9K followers, 11K engagements
"Am awating to hear from the media's favorite sinologists how my claim (that Xi's personal responsibility for China's economic crisis is pregnant with consequences ) is 100% because Chinese are so wise so sophisticated.& I am misquoting (even ex Xinhua)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1695518301953102326) 2023-08-26T19:27Z 61.2K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Wating to hear from media's favorite sinologists how my claim that Xi's personal responsibility for China's economic crisis is pregnant with consequences is 100% WRONG because the Chinese are so wise so sophisticated.& I am misquoting (even whenXinhua)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1695523710558454251) 2023-08-26T19:48Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The release of Fukushima reactor water into the Pacific on the far side of Japan is 100% harmless to Chinese but TV channels are saturated w anti-Japanese films & WWII insults are revived to attack Japanese. Why Xi Jinping's personal responsibility for high youth unemployment"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1696198177052082505) 2023-08-28T16:28Z 67K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Michael Pettis predicted China's present crisis long ago: directing resources to investment in infrastructures viz consumption was the best growth driver when China needed them. Now w under-utilized infrastructures consumer demand should pull the economy. Xi Jinping refuses"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1696835296174789052) 2023-08-30T10:40Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Casual or knowing suggestions that Putin killed Prigozhin reveal surprising ignorance. P would not destroy a Russian aircraft & crew nor decapitate valuable Wagner by killing Utkin as well. He refused to fire early supporter Shoigu but Prigo was reverting to loyalty.If not 9mm"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697758198986420319) 2023-09-01T23:47Z 61.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Putin's sentimental regard for those who helped his rise to power weakens his regime (eg his refusal of Prigozhin's well-justified appeals to fire Shoigu his early supporter & poor defense minister) but also secures the loyalty of his Kremlin lieges & his Druzhina of old friends"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697760949287932274) 2023-09-01T23:58Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine cannot win-its forces cannot sweep the Russian army from the field. Putin cannot lose because a reversion to the status quo ante would lose him the Kremlin & then all. Needed: an all-out US diplomatic drive. Each US denial of something UKR wanted is a bargaining chip. Act"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697772617275457986) 2023-09-02T00:45Z 60.6K followers, 723.8K engagements
"Xi Jinping is not personally responsible for China's v wasteful over-investment in infrastructures (empty airports etc) & rental housing. But he personally stopped exam-preparation tutoring that once employed many graduates & attacked China's IT leaders humiliating Jack Ma "
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697802513443938622) 2023-09-02T02:43Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Surprisingly Xi Jinping's claim that "China" does not seek Hegemonism is valid: no country that wants to lead others or even dominate them would concurrently try to bite off bits of their territory as C is now doing w Japan Philippines Brunei () Indonesia Malaysia India"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697991989868855309) 2023-09-02T15:16Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"At present the PRC is trying bite off bits of territory from Japan Philippines Brunei () Indonesia Malaysia India Bhutan and Vietnam. No aspiring Hegemon would do that : it destroys Beijing's influence in those countries. Why The Han are good at everything except strategy"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1697993552247079326) 2023-09-02T15:23Z 61.5K followers, 70.6K engagements
"If Putin retreats to the Feb [--] lines he must give up power hence he will not do it"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1698041410560131521) 2023-09-02T18:33Z 61.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"No decisive battles without surprise & today's SAR transparent battlefield allows no surprise. Was merely noting that Ukraine lacks enough soldiers to drive back the Russians. With 33M they should have at least [--] M in uniform with at least [---] combat troops. Now too few"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1698090739975020720) 2023-09-02T21:49Z 61.8K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Am amazed that the NYT's editors printed today's absurdly pretentious article of T. Friedman who gravely warns the US and Saudi governments not to reach an agreement with Israel unless the latter agrees to a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Is he a party to the negotiations"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1699625497469063483) 2023-09-07T03:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Heard from Warsaw: young Ukrainians with fancy cars are v visible in the local night-clubbing scene. However small their number they are a reminder that many Ukrainians of military age in Europe are not returning to serve. They should be invited to do so or listed publicly"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1699830751829848256) 2023-09-07T17:03Z 61.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Ukraine has irrevocably won its national independence by fighting for it. Now is the time to propose regional plebiscites where many Russian-speakers live (of course many prefer Ukraine regardless of language). If Putin rejects that too the war will simply not end"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1700106313957539853) 2023-09-08T11:18Z 61.8K followers, 132.4K engagements
"I do not mind sending US$Billions to Ukraine. I do mind that in a struggle for independence against invasion Ukrainians of military age remain abroad with their Ukrainian passports. The latter should be cancelled with the names publicly posted in their home towns & last address"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1700523542922608792) 2023-09-09T14:56Z 61.8K followers, 364.6K engagements
"The daily contradiction between Chinese protestations of peaceful intentions and the dangerous military misconduct eg derives from Xi Jinping's non-stop campaign to incite the PLA to be aggressive. He wants the Chinese of all people to be warriors"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1700528025018990862) 2023-09-09T15:14Z 61.8K followers, 17.3K engagements
"NOT DEPORTED. simply passports withdrawn for those who violate the national service law as in every country that has national service such as Finland Swizerland -not exactly primitives. It is sweet and decorous to fight for one's country"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1701070808427147477) 2023-09-11T03:10Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Qin Gang ambassador in Washington is recalled to Beijing to become foreign minister a promotion even though Chinese foreign ministers lack real (Politburo) power. Then Qin Gang disappears. The story of a love affair w a HKG girl not credible: PRC amb.in Washingon are never alone"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1701422251692744916) 2023-09-12T02:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Qin Gang China's Amb in Washington recalled to Beijing to be Foreign Minister disappears w an affair offered as the explanation. Not credible: as Amb he was escorted everywhere by his security +US sec & watched 24/7 by the FBI. My theory: when briefed on Xi's plans he objected"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1701525932891070644) 2023-09-12T09:19Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Watch Bigger Chinese coast guard vessels try to block Philippino resupply op incl with near-ramming. Irony: if Chinese came only as investors buyers & tourists they would have it all. Chinese history was shaped by strategic incompetence & now again"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1701540162038009936) 2023-09-12T10:16Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"True was a State Dept consultant decades ago. Am a contractual strategic advisor hard work actually though not in Poland's case: a country of [--] million with [-----] trained soldiers must be located between Fiji and Tonga and not anywhere near a Russian border. Copy Suomi @rybar_force Edward Luttwak @ELuttwak hasn't been a State Department advisor since before you were born @rybar_force Edward Luttwak @ELuttwak hasn't been a State Department advisor since before you were born"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1702343411552907650) 2023-09-14T15:27Z 67.2K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Agree. Cotton-wool-between-the-ears Hollywood types made a bad film about diversionary war which is in fact very rare . Even [----] Falklands was not the Junta's diversion from economic crisis (one per year in Argentina). For Xi Jinping the war aim is "rejuvenation" not diversion"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1702893004728553695) 2023-09-16T03:51Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"There should be rules against using this conversational medium for vulgar self-advertising but my formidable Harvard UP editor insists why is it that the relatively small relatively poor Israeli armed forces have been so exceptionally innovative"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703045517662396581) 2023-09-16T13:57Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Inadvertently hilarious: Seth G Jones in WSJ Sept16 "The Taiwanese are worried that the US will abandon Ukraine. Taiwan leaders warn.concerns about American resolve". This from people who refuse to defend themselves: no military service only 2% of GDP bemedalled generals"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703068477869756889) 2023-09-16T15:29Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I cannot understand why the US is giving military aid to Taiwan: a rich defensible island of [--] M pop with lots of money but no serious military service (should have [---] M trained equipped reservists viz almost none) Active 88K () spends 2.2% of GDP on defense. Ok near Tasmania"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703070898905903186) 2023-09-16T15:38Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Le FFAA potrebbero facilmente proteggere il territorio Italiano dalle invasioni barbare senza uccidere nessuno semplicemente riportando chi arriva da dove e' partito. Dopo un po' nessuno paghera' i trafficanti. Si e' vero nn e' un incarico ludico ne cerimonioso ma pattriotico"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703072394577871021) 2023-09-16T15:44Z 61K followers, [---] engagements
"Will the all-knowing experts of the Intelligence community (17 agencies that sometimes talk) kindly explain how North Korea develops ballistic missiles etc + keeps a million in poorly fed but well-munitioned armed forces for $25 billion the Pentagon's budget for office supplies"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703120885534658858) 2023-09-16T18:57Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Lviv [----] Ukrainians killing Jews before Germans started doing so but they photographed. Still it will all be forgotten after a millenium or two"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703122166772797909) 2023-09-16T19:02Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"European Commission Pres von der Leyen has listed the measures needed to stop illegal immigration from southern Mediterrean coastlines including "limit the use of unseaworthy vessels. and ensure the disabling of recuperated boats and dinghies". No boats= no trafficked migrants"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703587900732919877) 2023-09-18T01:53Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A very serious failure: the US quality press + Sc American & Lancet propagated Anthony Fauci's deception as "THE SCIENCE" ignoring inter alia Le Monde's [--] avril [----] detailed expose' (Lab was French-built) + RAI/Leonardoenabling the Chinese cover-up"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1703799201556046014) 2023-09-18T15:52Z 61.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Yes many warships. It would require half the Sry-class submarines to sink them all w/o imprudent lingering. PM Kishida has said that Japan would not stand aside if Taiwan is invaded & that is the politely quiet way of intervening & yes US warships too are just targets nowadays"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1704178208734662702) 2023-09-19T16:58Z 61.8K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Roger: do not believe that Xi Jinping's aggressive PRC will last for [--] years. A rapidly ageing and shrinking population does not correlate with aggression Lets hope that #WW3 can be discouraged in the next [--] Years that separate us from #China final decision to annex #Taiwan Lets hope that #WW3 can be discouraged in the next [--] Years that separate us from #China final decision to annex #Taiwan"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1704537859472978275) 2023-09-20T16:47Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"Both in Eur and US some believe that stopping immigration is immoral (wealth should be shared) and uneconomic (we need the labor). But they refuse to argue the case & just tell sob stories. Nor do they offer airlifts. As for the depressive effect on our working-class wages: zero"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1704586614301737135) 2023-09-20T20:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More shameless self-advertizing [--]. define a pre-condemned category (counter-revolutionaries Mao's landlords now Oligarch) [--]. List names under those categories & its done ; no specific evidence needed they are already condemned"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1704672104355160292) 2023-09-21T01:41Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Jeff Yass has 21$B invested in Tik Tok's parent company. Therefore he funds "Club for Growth" not registered as a lobby for China but merely acting as if it were. Tik Tok captures teens from sleep or study with its hypnotic short films. Sen Rand Paul blocked an overdue ban. WHY"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1704880598597169602) 2023-09-21T15:29Z 60.4K followers, [--] engagements
"After my artisanal complaint about the failure to prohibit Tik Tok because of the purchase of political influence by the billionaire Jeff Yass I see on the front page of the Wall Street Journal the full story: "The billionaire keeping Tik Tok on phones." Ruins young minds"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1704893032208753091) 2023-09-21T16:19Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Chinese ambassador has called on the Philippines not to be distracted by minor incidents at sea and to focus on improving economic and political relations. That is standard operating procedure: pretend that the warships threatening the Philippines do not exist & all is well"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1705282459032543526) 2023-09-22T18:06Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Am distubed by the ease with which the Rule of Law was thrown out of the window to go after the billionaires in the Forbes list that had Russian names. That was enough: as Oligarchs they lost all rights to their property without any trial"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1705367772262510593) 2023-09-22T23:45Z 61.8K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Russians and Ukrainians launch token air attacks against each other killing a few and irritating many while gaining no advantage. Given that there is no path to victory by aerial bombardment for either side why not an air war moratorium Just one more limit in a Limited War"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1706457661401669984) 2023-09-25T23:56Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Not surprising that armed forces around the world refuse to learn the lesson of the Ukraine war re the irremediable vulnerability of surface vessels armed helicopters amd tanks w/o active defenses. In spite of the utterly undeniable value of unmanned a/c they get 5% air force $$"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1707577473444004123) 2023-09-29T02:06Z 61.8K followers, 12.7K engagements
"A US-Saudi mutual security treaty would serve both sides v well w Saudis mindful of key US interests & vice versa. On the other hand a US-Israel security treaty is irremediably wrong in principle & ot worth discussing: the very purpose of the Israeli state is Jewish defense"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708520224977240109) 2023-10-01T16:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Who has failed to notice that drones can provide every form of air power from field re-supply to strategic bombing at a fraction of the cost of equivalent manned aircraft Only pacifist Mennonites in the Bolivian Amazon and the world's air-force planners. Most egregious: B-21"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708595668279788006) 2023-10-01T21:32Z 61.8K followers, 40.6K engagements
"The Ukraine war differs fundamentally from WWII because it is a Limited War Aside from the non-abuse of nuclear weapons (proper use: strike-back deterrence only) the US & Russia maintain diplomatic relations share a space station etc. V. Nice but Limited Wars can last decades"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708597934822916352) 2023-10-01T21:41Z 60.7K followers, 31.1K engagements
"How come today's "drones" re-active armor sea-skimming anti-ship missiles tank active defenses were all first developed in Israel From Harvard University Press The Art of Military Innovation Edward N. Luttwak Eitan Shamir ISBN 9780674660052"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708605005668766062) 2023-10-01T22:09Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine's War is like WWI not WWII w manpower the key. Putin's refusal to mobilize the army w its conscripts (Russian mothers would storm the Kremlin) is offset by the abundance of (well paid) volunteers. But UKR has yet to cancel the nationality of its passport-holders abroad"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708879504591016229) 2023-10-02T16:19Z 61.8K followers, 77.3K engagements
"I do not believe that if Slovakia leaves the Ukraine coalition there will be further defections. The problem rather is the lack of a realistic war-winning strategy which cannot ever be replaced by new equipment. 10% of the pop should be in uniform to yield [--] million combatants"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1708890072987451741) 2023-10-02T17:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In China all media bitterly attack the "frantic" US attempts to strangle China's growth In the real world China's BYD electrical car co No.1 threat to Tesla has billions from Warren Buffett & total US investments in China increased in [----] to $126.1 billion mostly in High Tec"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1709604740013650363) 2023-10-04T16:21Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese media now depict a United States that resembles the Japan of [---] propaganda films a country of hateful haters out to harm & humiliate the Chinese people. Reality: US direct investments in China companies reached $126.1 billion in [----] a 9% () increase over 2021"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1709608696852988065) 2023-10-04T16:37Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"Every war must end. Pres Putin should follow the example of George III. On receiving the first US envoy Adams he said: "I was the last to consent to Independence .but I am.the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power. Ukr & Rus share roots"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1709657765709259191) 2023-10-04T19:52Z 67K followers, 16.4K engagements
"Yes erosion: white males less attracted to military service because it is no longer shaped for them the no-smoking no-drinking no masculinity push of society aided by trendy generals (eg Petraeus shut down the invisible SOF micro-bar at Bagram .) repells the best obviously"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1709971296941912468) 2023-10-05T16:38Z 61.8K followers, 103.1K engagements
"Unless Putin can embrace Ukraine as a fully independent country whose roots are shared with Russia's the war will simply continue gradually de-populating Ukraine and driving more and more of the most talengted Russians into exile. China advances each day in Inner/Central Asia"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1709973961688101022) 2023-10-05T16:48Z 61.8K followers, 11K engagements
"It is frustrating for Russian strategists that they can extract no advantage from their nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. But the discovery that they are too powerful to be useful (the paradoxical logic of strategy) dates from [----] when the US could not use them in Korea"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1710010557372186860) 2023-10-05T19:14Z 61.8K followers, 10.2K engagements
"admirable persistence. W [--] months of intensive training supervised by NCOs trained in national-service countries (sorry ROC officers no can do) Taiwan could add a [---] million militia that would outnumber 10:1 any air-landed or amphibious force (PLA=less that [--] M ground troops)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1710121205901021300) 2023-10-06T02:34Z 61.8K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Military training benefits almost all. In 19th century EUR compulsory military service trained European peasants to read write a bit & wash once a week whether they needed to or not. [--] years of military service leave Israelis w many skills but much less can be enough to defend"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1710126097038193036) 2023-10-06T02:53Z 61.8K followers, 18.3K engagements
"Now that the Biden Adm has decided to control entry into the United States it can politely ask Panama to stop the arrivals via the Darien Gap's very few transitable miles. They can live w/o the bribery income. BTW: Chinese Intel illegals & criminals arrive via Panama"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1710320080414728506) 2023-10-06T15:44Z 61.8K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Naturally Hamas threatens to kill the Israelis it has captured incl the brave grandmother and the infants unless Israel obeys its commands. Obviously Israel cannot surrender to the demand and neither can it counter-threaten Gaza's civilians because HAMAS cares not a fig for them"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1711449009154392465) 2023-10-09T18:30Z 61.8K followers, 29.7K engagements
"It happened on Netanyahu's watch: so few troops were deployed in the perimeter around Gaza that they were easily overwhelmed as in the case of the much-filmed single Merkava tank captured by Hamas where at least [--] were needed. After the war Netanyahu must patriotically resign"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1711549547590115788) 2023-10-10T01:09Z 61.8K followers, 54.7K engagements
"Hamas rules Gaza as a pure dictatorship: locals who prefer peace lose their lives if they fail to disguise their lack of enthusiasm for futile rocket attacks that evoke Israel's retaliation or for the war just started. Though elected into office Hamas refuses new elections"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1711557801460244512) 2023-10-10T01:42Z 60.6K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Soon Israel will run out of high-value Hamas bombing targets. At that point absent a cease-fire its forces must enter Gaza to pursue the war on the ground. Last IDF troops were riding in thinly armored 10-ton M.113s . This time they have [--] ton Namers with active defenses"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1711559482629656844) 2023-10-10T01:49Z 61.8K followers, 35.9K engagements
"there were hardly any soldiers on the line because Intelligence optimism contaminated military planning whose first duty is to remain pessimistic"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1711562121769599128) 2023-10-10T01:59Z 61.8K followers, 56.8K engagements
"The surprised reactions to Harvard's anti-semitic ("pro-Hamas") demonstrations reveal deep ignorance. Modern anti-semitism was born in Euro universities in 19th cent: when they introduced written exams Jewish students overtook the rest. DEI reduces Jews but not enough evidently"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712269116768244164) 2023-10-12T00:49Z 61.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"In [----] Nasrallah dictator chief of Iran-funded Shi'a Hezbollah started a war that wrecked Shi'a villages & towns. Unlike Arafat who always sacrificed Palestinians for Palestine Nasrallah apologized: "I would not have started the war had I known what Israel could do". More now"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712297735175503944) 2023-10-12T02:42Z 61.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Arab/Muslim students understandably side with Palestine. But the others are like the inventors of modern anti-semitism: 19th century European "legacy" students inexplicably overtaken by poor Jews whose parents still spoke Yiddish as soon as written exams were introduced. Now DEI"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712300043208687743) 2023-10-12T02:51Z 61.8K followers, 14.7K engagements
"The President of Harvard University previously a remarkably undistinguished sociologist elevated for unknown reasons has faltered tripped up etc But if a lampost were chosen to be Harvard's President would you blame the lampost No . It is the trustees who betray institutions"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1712689559614443852) 2023-10-13T04:39Z [--] followers, 27.4K engagements
"Pres Biden's support for Israel including the aircraft carrier (originally in the Med for other reasons) helps to dissuade Hezbollah from serving their Iranian Rev Guard paymasters by also launching rockets. Plus: their leader Nasrallah cares for his people (as Hamas does not)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712832818412143042) 2023-10-13T14:09Z 60.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Tactical plans found on dead Hamas fighters show that they were supposed to go beyond the first line of villages to attack deeper targets incl an air force depot. But were stopped by civilians with small arms (and one ret general with a handgun)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712844205008023577) 2023-10-13T14:54Z 61.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"It is despiriting to see pro-Palestinian students demonstrating for Hamas because it reveals an ignorance so complete that they do not even know that Hamas totally opposes Palestinian nationhood. It stands for undivided Islam like ISIS did. Plus the PLO includes Christians"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712852748964680029) 2023-10-13T15:28Z 61.8K followers, 37.6K engagements
"I discovered yesterday that a carefully prepared Ivy League seminar (w air travel for some) can be shut down by [--] climate fanatics w the Dean Uni police & city police all refusing to do anything. "We have a protocol" was the answer when I called for driving them out"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712858197407519070) 2023-10-13T15:49Z 60.1K followers, 46.7K engagements
"In US universities many students now devote their time to self-expression instead of learning anything at all. Eg the "Pro-Palestine Pro-Hamas" shouters do not even know that Islamist Hamas utterly rejects Palestinian nationalism as the separatist enemy of the "Islamic nation""
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712900466621796356) 2023-10-13T18:37Z 61.8K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The Hamas message is that they are fighting for the Al Aksa Mosque and not for the Palestinians still unforgiven by Kuwaitis & Saudis for supporting Saddam's Iraq against them; by Egyptians because Gaza was theirs until 1967; by Lebanese because they abused their hospitality"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1712903344979591220) 2023-10-13T18:49Z 61.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Power is Mass multiplied Cohesion. Israel's population or wealth or weapon numbers have not increased since the war started but its power has been magnified by national unity Eg: hard to get any flight into Israel because every seat is taken by reservists eager to serve"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713012488835309957) 2023-10-14T02:02Z 60.1K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Overheard gents talking about sending US troops in Israel. Probability: zero. Israel has [---] K active + ready reserves plus older in local defense. The much reduced US Army has [------] active & Marine Corps [------] (incl rape counsellors or perhaps it is anti-rape counsellors.)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713194936219189645) 2023-10-14T14:07Z 60.2K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Trying to fly to Israel ("to take the waters") No transatantic flights must be via Europe but v hard to find a seat. All the fault of Israeli reservists leaving Silicon valley jobs villas in Tuscany backpacker holidays Berlin.to rejoin their units even if not recalled"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713206781231415327) 2023-10-14T14:55Z 61.8K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Hamas is "progressive". Eg U of C Berkeley Prof () Judith Butler self-proclaimed Lesbian Understanding Hamas Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive that are on the Left that are part of a global Left is extremely importantHamas kills lesbians progressively"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713304438893388188) 2023-10-14T21:23Z 61.8K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Anwar Sadat understood strategy. In the [----] October war that regained the Sinai for Egypt notwithstanding military defeat captured Israeli soldiers were treated properly. Hamas tactical planning was v good but its strategy is terrible. Atrocities lose allies and unites enemies"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713403455203684544) 2023-10-15T03:56Z 60.1K followers, 32.4K engagements
"Beijing:"China-India border talks do not progress because India.always wants more and with US endorsement refuses.compromise. Then the warning: "this.might backfire". Ie. Beijing wants India to accept the loss of territories seized by China over the years.or else lose more"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713590395756523538) 2023-10-15T16:19Z 61.8K followers, 17.4K engagements
"I fully expect Vladimir Putin to remain strictly neutral as Israel acts in Gaza to demolish the subterranean Hamas base structure. If he revokes his pact with the Jews he will join the very long list of history's losers & some of closest friends"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713603350007013705) 2023-10-15T17:10Z 61.8K followers, 39.3K engagements
""A number of people were reportedly abducted by the militants. Japan strongly condemns such acts and urges their immediate release. Japan is deeply concerned about a number of casualties in Gaza as well. All the parties concerned should exercise maximum restraint"Pre-Abe language"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713608125524197677) 2023-10-15T17:29Z 60.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Two US aircraft carriers close by invite Hezbollah to stay out of the fight--their bombing capacity is magnified by proximity. The ayatollah regime that has now alienated almost all educated Iranians seeks victories abroad to offset utter failure at home but Nasrallah's hesitates"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1713881174722937060) 2023-10-16T11:34Z 60.4K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Iran's dictatorship routinely sacrifice the interests of Iran's people to attack Israel the US and its Arab allies by expensively equipping their enemies w weapons. Now they want Hezbollah to attack Israel sacrificing Lebanon's Shia on behalf of anti-Shia ultra Sunni Hamas"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714043322275098893) 2023-10-16T22:19Z 60.1K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Because embarked US Marines have joined the two aircraft carrier groups (to deter Iran's Hezbollah auxiliaries) there is talk of "US boots on the ground" . Probability : zero. Israel will not ask nor accept US troops. US troops were & are the US Marine guards at the US Embassy"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714106107948388353) 2023-10-17T02:28Z 60.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"The target of Israeli ground forces in Gaza is the vast tunnel network (tunnels for rocket assembly; for storage of rocket materials weapons ammo command/comm centers). Israel's 70-ton Namer vehicles can deliver the combat engineers & escorting troops"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714108014750216436) 2023-10-17T02:36Z 60.3K followers, 41.7K engagements
"However well-intentioned those who want to stop the war before Israel can destroy the subterranean Hamas infrastructure of bomb-proof tunnels where rockets are produced weapons stored and chiefs are safe are rowing against Israel's impellent need to reduce the Hamas threat"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714113873387589994) 2023-10-17T02:59Z 60.1K followers, 26.3K engagements
"Thank you. It came from US or is there a local publication"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714118068106932626) 2023-10-17T03:16Z 61.8K followers, 17.1K engagements
"After each of Israel's Wars there is a commission of inquiry headed by the most respected people in the country. When not everything went well resignations follow. The head of the security service Shin-Bet has already accepted responsibility. So will Prime Minister Netanyahu"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714126740698566998) 2023-10-17T03:50Z 60.3K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Exactly on time the "atrocity" arrives care of Iran's Islamic Jihad : it was their rockets on depressed trajectories that hit the hospital not bombs or missiles on oblique vectors. The crowds in Turkey & Amman do not want to know it but the Israel air force avoids hospitals"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714398493207593167) 2023-10-17T21:50Z 60.3K followers, 67K engagements
"More than [---] Hamas & Islamic Jihad rockets have fallen within the Gaza strip. One more fell on a hospital killing many. But the crowds do not want the truth they want an excuse to vent their rage- born against their corrupt rulers but Islamically vented against non-believers"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1714555112633303347) 2023-10-18T08:12Z 60.3K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Since when is the region exclusively Arab Until expelled in the 1950s there were many Greeks in Egypt Jewish communities in every Arab country ex Saudi Arabia "Phoenician" Maronites and Syria's Alawites neither Arab nor Muslim wrote Assad's grandfather to the French"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1715292911372226675) 2023-10-20T09:04Z 60.2K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Arab leaders did not try to control the mobs that agitated against Israel because Islamic Jihad rockets hit the hospital's parking lot. They lacked the legitimacy to do so & so decided to diminish their unpopularity by going along and even inciting on their own"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1715294568122318941) 2023-10-20T09:11Z 61.8K followers, 29K engagements
"Ukraine's fate will be decided in Kiev not in Washington DC. Having resisted bravely to win their indepedence irreversibly Ukraine's leaders must now act to end the war by offering a territorial settlement with fully supervised plebiscites (1919 rules) in the disputed regions"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1715295584351924669) 2023-10-20T09:15Z 60.3K followers, 39.5K engagements
"In Turkey the moustached who deem deodorant girlish keep their women headdressed support Erdogan and oppose Israel (outraged at Jews that fight when Turks do not) are out in force to support of both Islamist Hamas and the Palestinian nation that Hamas fiercely opposes"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1715439339226673247) 2023-10-20T18:46Z 60.2K followers, 31.3K engagements
"centenerian anti-semite . Not clear if gratitously so or in order to affirm the Muslim identity in Malaysia where non-Muslim Indians and Chinese do much of the work without getting their share of governmemt handouts and jobs. Because of him Malaysian Fed is officially anti-sem"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1715459811326755316) 2023-10-20T20:07Z 60.3K followers, 23.1K engagements
"China's Coast Guard has far larger vessels than its counterparts anywhere incl [-----] ton "cutters" five times larger that the largest US Coast Guard ships. Why To push aside Philippine Vietnamese & other vessels to seize control of waters more than [----] n miles from China"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716515992824664188) 2023-10-23T18:04Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Given the shoving and pushing that is expanding China's control of South-East Asian waters depriving Vietnamese & Philippine fishermen of their livelihood (Chinese fishermen move in) to assert China's claim to absurdly distant waters the US should be there with the Coast Guard"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716517509602382070) 2023-10-23T18:10Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Muslim solidarity celebrates Hamas violence against Jewish civilians overlooks Hamas hostility against Shias and its rejection of Palestine nationalism (Hamas like ISIS holds that all Muslims should be under one Caliph) but no Muslim country accepts Palestinian refugees not one"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716519133909524707) 2023-10-23T18:17Z 60.5K followers, 25.9K engagements
"The Gaza hospital was hit by Hamas or IJ rockets but the false accusers do not retract & Muslims world-wide still vent their rage. But no Muslim state offers to take in Palestinian refugees as Europe took in [--] M Syrian refugees"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716521959410860371) 2023-10-23T18:28Z 60.6K followers, 96.7K engagements
"A few words to explain how & why Israel's security establishment (Intel/ Security/ I. Defense Forces) failed to prevent the deadly incursion--including the recurrent delusion (eg [-----] labor permits had just been issued for Gaza residents)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716635767684923667) 2023-10-24T02:00Z 60.5K followers, 51.4K engagements
"It is very nice that the New York Times has retracted its headlines re [---] killed by Israeli bombing of a hospital (50 were killed by a Hamas rocket). Will it pay for the restoration of the destroyed historic synagogue in Tunisia Will it airdrop leaflets over inflamed Turkey"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1716780455398138147) 2023-10-24T11:35Z 60.1K followers, [----] engagements
"In Turkey last week anti-Israel agitation quickly became anti-semitic with Stars of David & not just Israeli flags-- unsurprising given years of Erdogan's invective against the "Saturday People who raise interest rates".(While the "Sunday People" are anti-Turkish & pro-Greek)"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717028888130335215) 2023-10-25T04:02Z 60.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Xi Jinping is underpaid (as Pres of China +Gen Sec of Party +Chairman of Military Comm-the key job he gets less than $80K ) & overworked. Hence he had no time to explain why he appointed then quickly fired Def Min Li Shangfu & Foreign Min Qin Gang. They opposed his Taiwan war"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717155883740721407) 2023-10-25T12:27Z 60.4K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Erdogan's support of Hamas (I do understand why he would enjoy the atrocities) is one more attack on the majority of Turks who are too well educated not to know that a Hamas victory would mean stringent Islamic rule on all Palestinians (incl Christians) forcing them to flee"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717157325344051494) 2023-10-25T12:33Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"It is in Gaza's tunnel network that Hamas stores the materials needed to make rockets assembles the rockets and then moves them to launch openigs. Hamas command posts and shelters for leaders are also in tunnels. Until the IDF enters Gaza Israel's tunnel commandos can only wait"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717266858737291336) 2023-10-25T19:48Z 60.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
"It was the refusal to bomb Iran regime targets when it held US diplomats hostage (to save them from harm) that unleashed Iran's unceasing aggressions against its neighbors including US allies. If the Gov of Israel hesitates to invade because of the hostages many more will die"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717268625827270938) 2023-10-25T19:55Z 60.5K followers, 19.1K engagements
"The Israeli army cannot be prevented from accomplishing its task of destroying the tunneled infrastructure of Hamas and its defenders because of the hostages. Thousands have died because Hamas was allowed to grow into a real threat. If it now survives unattacked more will die"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717373962164773278) 2023-10-26T02:53Z 60.5K followers, 15.1K engagements
"What HIAS has wrought: used Jewish money to import Muslims into the US . Jewish organizations and individuals (or semi-Jews like Sergey Brin) who give money to HIAS are self-destructive. They should stop. Diverse Muslims find their only common ground in hostility to Israel"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717414009492677118) 2023-10-26T05:33Z 67K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Retired generals talk of "house-to-house" fighting in Gaza. No such thing: the only target of an offensive is underground: the tunnel network in which rockets are produce weapons stored & commanders shelter all built w cement diverted from "refugee housing" aid. Better sooner"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717579485669691765) 2023-10-26T16:30Z 60.6K followers, 23K engagements
"Israel's new coalition government cannot wait any longer to launch the long-planned offensive to destroy the Hamas tunnel network in which rockets are assembled and their components are stored and which houses command posts weapons equipment and ammunition. Time is running out"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717584329285464247) 2023-10-26T16:49Z 60.7K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Muslim students in the US recruited by Palestine activists agitate against Israel. How come they ignore the persecuted Uyghurs Or China's Hui whose mosques are deformed if not just demolished. And why do they overlook the desperate Rohingya Jewish students are their target"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717779535104786797) 2023-10-27T05:45Z 60.7K followers, 24K engagements
"The Israeli offensive is overdue & should be delayed no longer no matter who asks. Without it the network of Hamas tunnels that constitute its base cannot be destroyed and the war must continue sine die.while rockets continue to land in Israel. The war must end soon"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717783242898887150) 2023-10-27T06:00Z 60.6K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Li Keqiang died of natural causes after having died politically but even worse was Li's abject surrender to Xi's priority : "the rejunevation" of China consisting of "wolf-warrior" diplomacy (Wang Yi went from model diplomat to snarling dog) + aggression viz Viets Pinoys INDIA"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717951308374970530) 2023-10-27T17:08Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"If you are referring to the IDF offensive into Gaza now overdue its only and sufficient purpose is the destruction of the Hamas tunnel complex (cca 50km) that contains Hqs all stores and rockets are made"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1717952474865438891) 2023-10-27T17:12Z 60.6K followers, 19.6K engagements
"The Russian attack to seize Avdiivka a small town (31000 pre-war ) in central Donetsk oblast cost more than 3K casualties. At this rate of attrition the Russian proletariat will shrink considerably if war persists (Russians w any money do not fight). Patriots would stop it now"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1718290906821132638) 2023-10-28T15:37Z 60.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Keep hearing that people are surprised by the eruption of anti-semitism in the leading US universities. But if they look it up they will discover that modern racial anti-semitism started in European universities once written admission exams were introduced. The US remedy : DEI"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1718296177580605824) 2023-10-28T15:58Z 60.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Anti-semitism at Harvard Of course. Jews went from 7% in [----] to 21% in [----]. A 15% quota & later a "geographic diversity"trick reduced them but after WWII Jews filled the place.DEI squeezes them below 15% but the "diverse" incl Muslims cannot compete w them so they Palestine"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1718836735105540523) 2023-10-30T03:46Z 60.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"The verb "To Palestine" =vehement agitation over matters of which the excited ones know little & are disproportionate ab initio given Tibet Xinjiang Myanmar. True for Muslim students hating Jews is unifying given their diverse origins .The rest Fools knaves & the envious"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1718977570408919422) 2023-10-30T13:06Z 60.8K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Putin would respond appropriately Re Russia in WW2 Stalin tried to be Hitler's loyal ally --there was oil on route to Germany when war started In WWII the Russian army saved Jews incidentally not deliberately but Jewish soldiers officers were not impeded when trying to help Jews"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1719383918489510307) 2023-10-31T16:00Z 60.8K followers, 17.7K engagements
"No grudgingly--it was just that the Russian army was trying to get to Berlin as soon as possible. Jews from Poland who were deported to Russia or fled there by choice had high survival rates. Also Soviet partisans accepted Jews in their ranks unlike the Polish resistance"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1719499871294824873) 2023-10-31T23:41Z 60.8K followers, 22.9K engagements
"To serve Iran will Nasrallah sacrifice the homes & many lives of his Shia' followers to join Sunni/Islamist Hamas that rejects all Shi'a as heretics Will he sacrifice Hezbollah's stake in the Lebanese State already near collapse He promises to tell us in his Friday speech"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1719756835123597562) 2023-11-01T16:42Z 60.8K followers, 11.9K engagements
"In Today's Washington Post a subheadline has hundreds dead in Jabalia a photo shows maybe [--] bodies arrayed by Hamas for the cameras and the lead has scores of dead. Hamas reserves the ubiquitius tunnels to shelter its own men stating that civilians must be protected by the UN"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1719758891133657137) 2023-11-01T16:50Z 60.8K followers, 13K engagements
"Iran's Twelver Shia theocrats generously support ultra-Sunni Hamas that views them as heretics as well as Yemen's Fiver and Sevener Shia who are heretics in their eyes because as Persians they believe that Arabs simpletons are best governed by themselves. Saudis know this"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1719887246575153623) 2023-11-02T01:20Z 60.8K followers, 38.6K engagements
"Iran's ayatollah/rev guard regime knows how to stay in power sacrificing only twelver Shi'a religion whose market share has halved. But food prices have been rising much more than wages so there is increasing hunger while oil revenues are misused to pay for Shi'a militias"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1720758431664001136) 2023-11-04T11:02Z 60.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"I particulary admire "Queers for Palestine" who should hold a rally in Gaza at the first opportunity or in Tehran"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1720914253039722635) 2023-11-04T21:21Z 61.8K followers, 28K engagements
"non-Muslim pro-Hamas students equate Arabs with Black/Colonial victims of powerful Whites ("settler-colonial state") unaware of Hamas's true motive: Islam validated by Muhammad's victories also over Jews promises victory so Israeli victories since [----] invalidate the faith"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1720936192286347736) 2023-11-04T22:48Z 60.8K followers, 17.5K engagements
"Some American Blacks (eg Ibrahim X Kelly) assume Arab names to dissociate themselves from Western slavers blissfully unaware of the fact that the Arab slave trade up the Red Sea started centuries before its Atlantic counterpart lasted till [----] (in Sudan) and thrives in Libya"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1720937161069920725) 2023-11-04T22:52Z 60.9K followers, 36.3K engagements
"Biden's decades of foreign-policy expertise (ridiculed in Obama's White House: Biden was usually right eg on Afghan army fraud but overruled) emerged in his reaction to October [--] when his deeds exceeded his words & not vice-versa. That reassured US allies as far away as Taiwan"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1721047470602342617) 2023-11-05T06:11Z 60.8K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Edward N Luttwak @ELuttwak Mossad chief David Barnea has just made a low-key statement (re Iran's leaders) that its operational arm which has a record making irrevocable personnel changes inside Iran is neither on strike nor on vacation. Obviously he sees a deterrence deficit"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1721055149009846456) 2023-11-05T06:41Z 60.7K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Mossad chief David Barnea has just made a low-key statement (re Iran's leaders) that its operational arm which has a record of making irrevocable personnel changes inside Iran is neither on strike nor on vacation. Obviously he thinks that there is a deterrence deficit w Iran"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1721362192174383570) 2023-11-06T03:01Z 60.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Ukraine is withering in the shadows while the Israel-Iran conflict (via interposed Arab servitors) is brightly illuminated. The transparent battlefield allows none to mount surprise attacks reduces the fighting to grinding attrition. Long-term aid to Ukraine must be affirmed now"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1721719514432213450) 2023-11-07T02:41Z 60.8K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Iran's theocracy is so oppressive and so corrupt (countless prelates have robes cut from Loro Piana cloth) that half the population is no longer Twelver Shia. But by diverting oil revenues to buy the loyalty of armed militias Iran can inflict damage--w impunity. Deterrence"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1721725067841667370) 2023-11-07T03:03Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"U.S. troops in Iraq & Syria have been attacked by Iran's militias [--] times since Oct. [--] w [--] reported injuries incl. traumatic brain injuries & one contractor died of a heart attack.Evidently Iran's rulers are not afraid of US retaliation. Needed just that: retaliation"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1722351738168992090) 2023-11-08T20:33Z 60.8K followers, 19.5K engagements
"Do the Trustees of Columbia University know that a person called Joseph Massad is a professor in the department of Middle East Studies Do they know what he has said and written of late Do they think that incitment to murder Jews qua Jews is a legitimate academic pursuit"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1722673819838488893) 2023-11-09T17:53Z 60.9K followers, 14.8K engagements
"A new version of XI Jinping's "China Dream" -a journey towards a better future: it starts with air travel to South America then a treck to the US border via Panama's perilous Dairen Gap. They are bright dynamic and see no future in China"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1722704705392984261) 2023-11-09T19:56Z 60.9K followers, [----] engagements
"NYT/WP other stringers joined the Hamas incursion to record the stunning victory over a few Israeli soldiers & civilians with handguns. They photographed the girls pulled by their hair etc. Muslims even Columbia U profs exploded in sheer joy -finally a victory. But no Day [--] plan"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1722812900975198363) 2023-11-10T03:06Z 60.9K followers, 26.6K engagements
"Jin Canrong Prof/Ass Dean School of International Studies Renmin U claims that Western Civilization is not rooted in Ancient Greek rationality-works attributed to Aristotle are a medieval pastiche. Canrong as others in rapidly ageing China have lost the faith & turned bitter"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1723090347566170237) 2023-11-10T21:28Z 60.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Black slaves are still present in the Muslim world (In Libya trapped West African emigrants are enslaved; in Sudan those captured in Darfur are sold off; and in Qatar yes. the ruler's household has "workers" with no IDs or wallets. At MIT also they found a prancing specimen"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1723102313403834495) 2023-11-10T22:16Z 60.9K followers, 32.9K engagements
"The October [--] Hamas attack may have been intended to disrupt the intensifying relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States as well as the rapprochement with Israel. The Saudi reaction has been a sophistcated mix of signals to all parties. See"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1723359287680831999) 2023-11-11T15:17Z 60.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"When Sartre's & Derrida's "deconstruction" won over English lit departments in US and UK universities nobody in politics noticed the conclusion that the hegemony of Western civilization had to be obliterated. Now they agitate against "settler-colonial" Israel. US CAN AUS NZ"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1723737388290060762) 2023-11-12T16:19Z 60.9K followers, 14K engagements
"Hamas attacked Israel precisely to evoke its counter-offensive which Hamas control over Gaza imagery would portray as an attack against women and children (Hamas censors all images of its fighters).Many would die but at least the males among them would much enjoy their martyrdom"
[X Link](https://x.com/ELuttwak/status/1724266731185578110) 2023-11-14T03:23Z 60.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
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Social Influence
Social category influence countries finance travel destinations us election technology brands celebrities stocks currencies automotive brands social networks
Social topic influence israel, iran, hamas, china, ukraine, russia, taiwan, countries, yemen, money
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"When Russia invaded the Ukraine Obama was busy with his new diet & Brussels asleep.The Poles begged for NATO troops but the Finns just bought a bit more ammo & the Swedes restarted selective military service. Like Israel they prefer self-defense it is more decorous"
X Link 2020-07-29T19:07Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"Keeping up w Artificial Intelligence is useful & fun. Watchful therefore over political infections. Demands for "Explainable and ethical AI" are destructive. AI at its best transcends human reasoning and "ethical" is a weasel word for the political refusal of objective results"
X Link 2020-08-12T19:44Z 67K followers, [--] engagements
"Too sophisticated. Strategy is stronger than politics: even if Putin and XJP love each other & both hate Kamala Harris strategy dictates that Russia can live with a stronger US but not with a stronger PRC. In strategy you cannot choose your partners: they are chosen for you @ELuttwak China & Russia are natural rivals in the geoeconomic space of Eurasia. But theyre allied vs common "rival" - US. How do you see the Dragonbears approach of "not always with each other but never against each other" through systemic coordination in key sectors incl. military @ELuttwak China & Russia are natural"
X Link 2020-10-25T00:56Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"Given the importance of the infantry its weakness in the PLA offers important opportunities. Plenty of intelligent officers: smart children of parents who cannot afford university go to military academies. But w enlisted the abundance of job opportunities leaves the left-overs"
X Link 2020-12-20T18:06Z 68.7K followers, [--] engagements
"Iran sends rockets to the Kataeb it funds in Syria & the Israelis bomb them before they can be launched (ground intel). Now the US has hit equally precisely the [--] Kataeb whose rockets wounded US Cits outside Erbil Kurdistan. The anti-Israel Katiba in Washington is unhappy"
X Link 2021-02-27T05:13Z 66.9K followers, [--] engagements
"I see in today's Khashoggi Post (aka Washington Post) that he fell victim to a Mephistophelian Israeli software that induced him to enter a Saudi consulate to obtain papers to marry one more wife. As an Islamist he was furious at the Saudis because they are US allies. ok for WP"
X Link 2021-07-19T16:49Z 67K followers, [---] engagements
"threatening Taiwan in warm caring tones. It might work. In spite of all that has happened Taiwan is still not building the national defense army of short-trained reservists that can preclude invasion. Instead it has generals in splendid uniforms https://x.com/tingtingliuTVBS/status/1622217426883727365 THREAD🧵: Its Lantern Festival in Asia today a day where family reunion is celebrated & PLA Eastern Command Theatre released a propaganda video targeted towards TW. Tone of the video is intentionally heartfelt & warm but message & images are quite disturbing to many in TW. 1/"
X Link 2023-02-06T16:06Z 67K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Dissolving the Russian Federation is not like dissolving the USSR (a huge advance for humanity Russians 1st). It is like dissolving the Austro-Hungarian empire celebrated by many in [----] bitterly mourned by [----]. Only if the PRC is dissolved first can we do w/o the Russian Fed"
X Link 2023-02-16T23:30Z 67K followers, 128.6K engagements
"Poles hate Russia & want to see it destroyed but Americans should not emulate their unstrategic emotion: merely by existing the Russian Federation contains Chinese power from Mongolia to Tajikistan via [--] "stans" while helping in India Laos Vietnam. Ukraine must not lose but"
X Link 2023-06-29T03:43Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"disowning & abandoning his son or inviting him to the tycoon-rich White House dinner were the ONLY alternatives"
X Link 2023-06-29T04:03Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
""Countries" survive as foreign conquerors come & go. Most "Chinese" dynasties were founded by non Han conquerors free of Sun Zi tricks who defeated Han-Chinese armies"
X Link 2023-06-29T04:34Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"US TV news programs carry melodramatic Prigo-related stories that claim "Intelligence" sources ie the CIA which rarely provides useful Intelligence (satellite photography is produced by another agency) but is really excellent at "media relations" w news orgs & Hollywood"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:32Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"There is no sign that the UKR war will end this year or this decade. Do not believe the UKR counter-offensive will reach Mariupol to cut off all Russian forces further west nor that Russians will descend from Belarus to cut off Kiev from Western supplies. Diplomacy anyone"
X Link 2023-06-30T00:43Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"We are saved Our Climate Envoy Kerry is flying to China Last time he went he had "excellent meetings". After that China started work & in [----] inaugurated two large coal-fired power plants/week MUCH more than the capacity shut down globally. Kerry Save the jet fuel"
X Link 2023-07-10T13:10Z 67.2K followers, [----] engagements
"ERDOGAN: "First let's clear the way for Turkey in the EU and then we clear the way for Sweden to join NATO as we did for Finland" . Having de-modernized the Turkish people by increasing head scarfs & damaging universitiesErdogan has made EU entry less likely nay impossible"
X Link 2023-07-10T13:44Z 61.8K followers, 11.6K engagements
"From [----] when the Japanese invaded China they made good progress in establishing a new "conquest dynasty" a successor to the Ching set up by the Jurchen Manchus that lasted till [----]. Communists & Kuomintang could not resist the Japanese--no fighting spirit"
X Link 2023-07-10T16:44Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"As the least distinguished of the [--] who signed full page ads against NATO expansion & v closely monitored what ensued I know for certain that Russia withdrew from a leadership role in NATO for only [--] reason:the ruler in the Kremlin must have enemies to justify his dictatorship"
X Link 2023-07-17T15:21Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"By defeating the Russian coup de main + overland invasion of Feb [----] Ukraine won THAT war emerging in the process as a fully formed nation as it never was before +it also acquired a national myth in good working order-priceless for any nation. Now Ukraine needs peace to rebuild"
X Link 2023-07-19T18:36Z 61.8K followers, 15K engagements
"No "bowing down": Americans keep going to Beijing to broadcast to all Chinese that Xi Jinping alone is driving them towards war just as XJP is the no.1 cause of China's catastrophic youth unemployment (his attacks on high-tech the tutoring industry etc). In Shanghai all know"
X Link 2023-07-22T04:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Can see PRC actions but w zero insight in Party politics. Xi Jin Ping is now re-enacting Mao (battered-child syndrome: Mao locked up his father humiliated his mother starved [--] half-sister to death & enslaved another) & China faces ruin: he talks "martial spirit" non stop"
X Link 2023-07-21T19:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"When in Baghdad I saw part of Sadr City the fiefdom of Muqtada al-Sadr: there was uncollected garbage everywhere. Instead on calling on his followers to go out to clean up the streets where they live he sent them to burn down Sweden's chancery because of a rumored Quran burning"
X Link 2023-07-22T00:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Xi Jinping's order to produce more grain is causing Party officials everywhere to increase arable land by deforesting recently forests cutting down orchards etc to plant wheat maize barley. But why is this happening https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-clue-china-is-preparing-for-war/ https://unherd.com/2023/07/the-clue-china-is-preparing-for-war/"
X Link 2023-07-22T04:04Z 72.7K followers, 22.3K engagements
"Every day the New Y Times explains why affirmative action is a good thing. Have yet to see any reference to the abandonment of standards eg at Princeton the Classics Dept has renounced the Latin or Greek language requirement while in California Algebra [--] is under attack. Next"
X Link 2023-07-23T17:34Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It was unfair to expect great victories from Ukraine's offensive against the much improved Russian army just because it received some Leopards. But a balanced US peace plan with plebiscites could still work because Russia needs its war exiles back & also access to the West"
X Link 2023-08-03T09:55Z 61.8K followers, 29.4K engagements
"The Adm is giving $345 M in military aid to Taiwan a sum that amounts to [---------] of its 564.83B in foreign exchange reserves. What Taiwan needs to become serious about defending itself by firing KMT generals & training its population to defend the island with a missile militia"
X Link 2023-07-30T16:20Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Senator Manchin's intervention in Biden's recent multi-trillion spending initiatives reduced the amount just enough to make it possible to tame inflation--which is the cruelest tax that impoverishes working people while enriching the rich --but is often caused by the Left"
X Link 2023-07-31T01:25Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"For the first time a Third Party candidate has a real chance to become the next President --if his name is Machin who has already saved us all from much loss by forcing spending cuts that enabled the Fed to cool inflation. Centrist Senator Joe Manchin ex Gov W Virginia can win"
X Link 2023-07-31T01:58Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"The balance of power respects no moral claims. Russia is big. When big countries are defeated by smaller countries (& Ukraine won in [----] no doubt) they attack again. Eventually UKR will run out of soldiers and a good-enough settlement is needed long before then Thoughts on Edward Lutwak's (@ELuttwak) Proposal to End the War in Ukraine. Thoughts on Edward Lutwak's (@ELuttwak) Proposal to End the War in Ukraine"
X Link 2023-07-31T15:12Z 67K followers, 37.3K engagements
"is it because the undemocratic gov (but just elected) dictates (but w a Knesset majority) a judicial coup (but to adopt the Europe-wide Gov-appointed judges system viz self-appointment that happened when judge-appointing Brits left BTW: Israel inflation less than US"
X Link 2023-08-02T12:27Z 60.8K followers, [--] engagements
"In the same vein in the opposite direction if the Attorney General does not appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate the payment of millions by Ukraine gangsters to Hunter Biden to remove a prosecutor going after them--successfully after his father intervened Trump may win"
X Link 2023-08-03T03:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese propaganda is contracted out to entrepreneurs who fund NGOs operated by the corrupt few & naive many. Eg Black Alliance for Peace Canadian Foreign Policy Institute CODEPINK International Action Center Mouvement de la Paix Pivot to Peace + [--] more. Needed: exposure"
X Link 2023-08-06T16:17Z 61.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"The DC kill rate/ [-----] is x [--] the Israel/Palestine violent death rate & without any terrorist organization. The deaths are much-deplored by politicians but none propose a remedy. Pre-emptive "stop & frisk" worked well Discriminatory Yes.Not much point in frisking matrons etc"
X Link 2023-08-06T20:59Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The new art of war: maneuver to appear in strength where the enemy is weak requires surprise. With radar satellite obs + all else there is no surprise. Hence linear defenses once hopeless now work because enemy concentrations are detected & matched. Fire wins over movement"
X Link 2023-08-06T21:06Z 61.5K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Chinese & Russian warships just off Aleutian islands A sinister warning We should order [----] cruisers .even if none would be delivered for years owing to over-specifications Alternatively: accept reality. Surface warships can no longer hide--now they are just targets"
X Link 2023-08-07T18:17Z 67K followers, 12.1K engagements
"China is building the world's biggest navy (even its Coast Guard vessels are bigger than US cruisers) because in Beijing they do not understand that maritime power requires alliances + ships. Having made enemies from Japan to India they keep turning out ships ie targets"
X Link 2023-08-07T19:05Z 61.8K followers, 23.8K engagements
"once again Hiroshimais questioned ("Japan already defeatedno need to bomb). But the v realisticGen Staff Ketsu-go plan(April1945) prepared all-people attacks against US occupation troops w hand grenades swords sickles to kill [--] M so US would withdraw & let Hirohito rule"
X Link 2023-08-10T03:58Z 61.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Now that 24/7 imagery precludes surprise reducing war to attrition Ukraine needs many more soldiers. In its independence war Israel mobilized 10% of the population that would be 3M for Ukraine but 1.5M might suffice (x [--] today). Z has just acted viz bribery to evade service"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:33Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I am surprised that even after war has returned to Europe most NATO forces have continued as usual w Navies still prioritizing "naval presence" ships that are mere targets AFs prioritizing buying a/c not flight hours or missiles and unserious training for 90% of ground forces"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:42Z 67K followers, 14.3K engagements
"Prigozhin was not attacking & was not attacked. It was a contractor dispute"
X Link 2023-08-12T15:57Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"Fulton County Georgia has twice the US average property crime rate (& is violent too) But today its DA has an admiring page in the Washington Post for having dedicated her time to investigate Donald Trump. Another art in the WP explains why Trump benefits from his persecution"
X Link 2023-08-13T12:45Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Ukraine war has entered its "grin & bear it" period as it fights a Great Power that tried & failed to conquer it in a week last February and which is now organized for protracted war. Ukraine need not win a great victory to exit the war an indepedent nation only persistence"
X Link 2023-08-13T12:55Z 61.8K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Have tried to understand how ground warfare has changed because of 24/7 overhead visibility with radar satellites It is the same at sea so only submarines can persist in combat. Because surface ships are now only good for "presence" they should be cheap"
X Link 2023-08-13T13:29Z 61.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"In the Wall Street Journal ex SecState Bolton blames Biden for the failure of Ukraine's offensive. Mr Bolton is unaware of today's 24/7 transparent battlefield: it denies surprise & imposes attrition in a battlefield much longer than the WWI Western Front. No magic weapons"
X Link 2023-08-14T13:19Z 61.8K followers, 12.6K engagements
"El Salvador's President Nayb Bukele did not just stop the killings but also the tacit mass enslavement of the weak to gangsters. The Washington Post disapproves (all have the right to cover themselves in gang tattos). That same attitude prohibits effective policing in Washington"
X Link 2023-08-14T21:21Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine is short of soldiers. In a war for national independence it should have more than 5% of the population in uniform: 1.5M .Part of the problem was recruitment avoidance by bribery on which Zelensky just acted"
X Link 2023-08-15T14:25Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Not rich Bill Clinton & Barack Obama became millionaires as they stepped out of the White House but now ignore their erstwhile millionaire supporters as they commune only w bodyguarded billionaires whose v few children are tutored & who oppose school choice & effective policing"
X Link 2023-08-15T16:24Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Thank you for the numbers Mr. Kessler. Highly significant comparison especially because the US was not really invadable. Israel's numbers in 1948/49 were 10% of total pop in uniform 8.5% in combat forces. Ukraine does not have [-------] in combat forces. What is the number"
X Link 2023-08-15T17:14Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Against all the terribly obsolete anti-"red baiting" nonsense dredged up by the historically illiterate Opp film: Edward Teller once told me that he just could not persuade Opp that Stalin was no better than Hitler & that he resisted the H bomb effectively till found out"
X Link 2023-08-15T21:04Z 60.6K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Biden has all possible credentials for a peacemaker having been resolute in supporting Ukraine & in leading others to do so & equally resolute in resisting avoidable escalation. Now that both sides know that neither can win all is ready for a Biden peace plan with plebiscites"
X Link 2023-08-15T21:45Z 61.8K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Veru loyal Prof Wang Linping wants "To establish Chinas dominant position in the international discourse related to Tibet -by not calling it Tibet. Wang favors "Xizang" Mandarin for Tibet. The PLA calls it the "Plateau Region to avoid using "Tibet". But Tibet lives on"
X Link 2023-08-18T01:47Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"China propelled itself out of degrading misery (Beijing smelled like an open sewer when I first lived there in 1976) with the self-denial of peasants who invested in ducks & public hyper-investment in infrastructures + huge US investment. Now the Chinese consumer must stop saving"
X Link 2023-08-20T19:22Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Beijing mosque question raises a larger one: how come the dozens of Muslim UN member states have done nothing at the UN not even by way of a mild complaint about Xi Jinping's destruction of Uyghur mosques including all their Korans & to Sinify Hui Mosques. Magna hypocrisia"
X Link 2023-08-21T21:40Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The general press has noticed that the war in Ukraine has devolved from potentially decisive maneuver to attrition (as below). But editorialists have yet to recognize the diplomatic implication: only third parties can act to end the war"
X Link 2023-08-21T22:00Z 61.8K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Was distressed to read in the Washington Post that the "special prosecutor" appointed to investigate Hunter Biden is the same Biden family friend who did not pursue the most serious (tax) charges instead allowing them to expire under the statute of limitations. Must be replaced"
X Link 2023-08-22T01:49Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Re. Muslim states who do nothing to defend co-religionists in China. New & unprecedented: Han Muslims (Hui) flying abroad to any destination are interrogated to ascertain if they are headed to the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca & if so sent home (others underway are ordered back)"
X Link 2023-08-22T02:00Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Lo leggo ma non ci credo: in Italia c'e ancora gente che ripete la favola [----] del PCI che la mafia distrutta da.(oddio.non dire chi) fu rilanciata dal [----] dal agente Amerikano Lucky Luciano. Cioe': i Siciliani solo vittime passive. Lucky=Napoleone e Americani=malevolenti"
X Link 2023-08-22T15:06Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Xi Jinping is not responsible for the sudden collapse of the debt-funded infrastructure gross over-investment machine. But it was his own choice to shut down the huge private tutoring business & attack high-tech causing mass new-graduate unemployment. Seething they "lie flat""
X Link 2023-08-22T15:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"As a taxpayer with a dilettante interest in Intelligence I wonder if the US Congress will ever examine the CIA's crippling refusals: 1) even its analysts refuse to learn languages not just station officers:2) its "covert operators" stick to Paris & Warsaw not Tehran or Beijing"
X Link 2023-08-23T16:39Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"No need of "moles". CIA self-incapacitated. Analysts refuse to learn languages & so-called oh-so-brave "covert" agents operate in Paris w 100% safety never in Tehran where actually needed. Close fumigate restaff w Americans interested in foreign countries who know languages"
X Link 2023-08-23T17:48Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Re Iran's " 30-second video set to thumping techno music showcasing its latest military drone the Mohajer-10 w a warning written in Hebrew: Prepare your bunkers. My question: can one UN member threaten to attack another UN member every other day without consequence"
X Link 2023-08-23T21:56Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"unfair. not trained for combat. Good men among them no doubt but generals knowingly complicit in the theatrical simulation of a real army. Any retired Green Beret sergeant sent to Taiwan could start training conscripts & retrain regulars + separately retrain junior officers @ELuttwak Taiwan should send a couple of brigades to Ukraine to gain real world experience. @ELuttwak Taiwan should send a couple of brigades to Ukraine to gain real world experience"
X Link 2023-08-26T13:54Z 66.9K followers, 11K engagements
"Am awating to hear from the media's favorite sinologists how my claim (that Xi's personal responsibility for China's economic crisis is pregnant with consequences ) is 100% because Chinese are so wise so sophisticated.& I am misquoting (even ex Xinhua)"
X Link 2023-08-26T19:27Z 61.2K followers, 23.1K engagements
"Wating to hear from media's favorite sinologists how my claim that Xi's personal responsibility for China's economic crisis is pregnant with consequences is 100% WRONG because the Chinese are so wise so sophisticated.& I am misquoting (even whenXinhua)"
X Link 2023-08-26T19:48Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The release of Fukushima reactor water into the Pacific on the far side of Japan is 100% harmless to Chinese but TV channels are saturated w anti-Japanese films & WWII insults are revived to attack Japanese. Why Xi Jinping's personal responsibility for high youth unemployment"
X Link 2023-08-28T16:28Z 67K followers, 10.6K engagements
"Michael Pettis predicted China's present crisis long ago: directing resources to investment in infrastructures viz consumption was the best growth driver when China needed them. Now w under-utilized infrastructures consumer demand should pull the economy. Xi Jinping refuses"
X Link 2023-08-30T10:40Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Casual or knowing suggestions that Putin killed Prigozhin reveal surprising ignorance. P would not destroy a Russian aircraft & crew nor decapitate valuable Wagner by killing Utkin as well. He refused to fire early supporter Shoigu but Prigo was reverting to loyalty.If not 9mm"
X Link 2023-09-01T23:47Z 61.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"Putin's sentimental regard for those who helped his rise to power weakens his regime (eg his refusal of Prigozhin's well-justified appeals to fire Shoigu his early supporter & poor defense minister) but also secures the loyalty of his Kremlin lieges & his Druzhina of old friends"
X Link 2023-09-01T23:58Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine cannot win-its forces cannot sweep the Russian army from the field. Putin cannot lose because a reversion to the status quo ante would lose him the Kremlin & then all. Needed: an all-out US diplomatic drive. Each US denial of something UKR wanted is a bargaining chip. Act"
X Link 2023-09-02T00:45Z 60.6K followers, 723.8K engagements
"Xi Jinping is not personally responsible for China's v wasteful over-investment in infrastructures (empty airports etc) & rental housing. But he personally stopped exam-preparation tutoring that once employed many graduates & attacked China's IT leaders humiliating Jack Ma "
X Link 2023-09-02T02:43Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Surprisingly Xi Jinping's claim that "China" does not seek Hegemonism is valid: no country that wants to lead others or even dominate them would concurrently try to bite off bits of their territory as C is now doing w Japan Philippines Brunei () Indonesia Malaysia India"
X Link 2023-09-02T15:16Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"At present the PRC is trying bite off bits of territory from Japan Philippines Brunei () Indonesia Malaysia India Bhutan and Vietnam. No aspiring Hegemon would do that : it destroys Beijing's influence in those countries. Why The Han are good at everything except strategy"
X Link 2023-09-02T15:23Z 61.5K followers, 70.6K engagements
"If Putin retreats to the Feb [--] lines he must give up power hence he will not do it"
X Link 2023-09-02T18:33Z 61.8K followers, 14.8K engagements
"No decisive battles without surprise & today's SAR transparent battlefield allows no surprise. Was merely noting that Ukraine lacks enough soldiers to drive back the Russians. With 33M they should have at least [--] M in uniform with at least [---] combat troops. Now too few"
X Link 2023-09-02T21:49Z 61.8K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Am amazed that the NYT's editors printed today's absurdly pretentious article of T. Friedman who gravely warns the US and Saudi governments not to reach an agreement with Israel unless the latter agrees to a Palestinian state in the West Bank. Is he a party to the negotiations"
X Link 2023-09-07T03:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Heard from Warsaw: young Ukrainians with fancy cars are v visible in the local night-clubbing scene. However small their number they are a reminder that many Ukrainians of military age in Europe are not returning to serve. They should be invited to do so or listed publicly"
X Link 2023-09-07T17:03Z 61.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"Ukraine has irrevocably won its national independence by fighting for it. Now is the time to propose regional plebiscites where many Russian-speakers live (of course many prefer Ukraine regardless of language). If Putin rejects that too the war will simply not end"
X Link 2023-09-08T11:18Z 61.8K followers, 132.4K engagements
"I do not mind sending US$Billions to Ukraine. I do mind that in a struggle for independence against invasion Ukrainians of military age remain abroad with their Ukrainian passports. The latter should be cancelled with the names publicly posted in their home towns & last address"
X Link 2023-09-09T14:56Z 61.8K followers, 364.6K engagements
"The daily contradiction between Chinese protestations of peaceful intentions and the dangerous military misconduct eg derives from Xi Jinping's non-stop campaign to incite the PLA to be aggressive. He wants the Chinese of all people to be warriors"
X Link 2023-09-09T15:14Z 61.8K followers, 17.3K engagements
"NOT DEPORTED. simply passports withdrawn for those who violate the national service law as in every country that has national service such as Finland Swizerland -not exactly primitives. It is sweet and decorous to fight for one's country"
X Link 2023-09-11T03:10Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Qin Gang ambassador in Washington is recalled to Beijing to become foreign minister a promotion even though Chinese foreign ministers lack real (Politburo) power. Then Qin Gang disappears. The story of a love affair w a HKG girl not credible: PRC amb.in Washingon are never alone"
X Link 2023-09-12T02:27Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Qin Gang China's Amb in Washington recalled to Beijing to be Foreign Minister disappears w an affair offered as the explanation. Not credible: as Amb he was escorted everywhere by his security +US sec & watched 24/7 by the FBI. My theory: when briefed on Xi's plans he objected"
X Link 2023-09-12T09:19Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Watch Bigger Chinese coast guard vessels try to block Philippino resupply op incl with near-ramming. Irony: if Chinese came only as investors buyers & tourists they would have it all. Chinese history was shaped by strategic incompetence & now again"
X Link 2023-09-12T10:16Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"True was a State Dept consultant decades ago. Am a contractual strategic advisor hard work actually though not in Poland's case: a country of [--] million with [-----] trained soldiers must be located between Fiji and Tonga and not anywhere near a Russian border. Copy Suomi @rybar_force Edward Luttwak @ELuttwak hasn't been a State Department advisor since before you were born @rybar_force Edward Luttwak @ELuttwak hasn't been a State Department advisor since before you were born"
X Link 2023-09-14T15:27Z 67.2K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Agree. Cotton-wool-between-the-ears Hollywood types made a bad film about diversionary war which is in fact very rare . Even [----] Falklands was not the Junta's diversion from economic crisis (one per year in Argentina). For Xi Jinping the war aim is "rejuvenation" not diversion"
X Link 2023-09-16T03:51Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"There should be rules against using this conversational medium for vulgar self-advertising but my formidable Harvard UP editor insists why is it that the relatively small relatively poor Israeli armed forces have been so exceptionally innovative"
X Link 2023-09-16T13:57Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Inadvertently hilarious: Seth G Jones in WSJ Sept16 "The Taiwanese are worried that the US will abandon Ukraine. Taiwan leaders warn.concerns about American resolve". This from people who refuse to defend themselves: no military service only 2% of GDP bemedalled generals"
X Link 2023-09-16T15:29Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"I cannot understand why the US is giving military aid to Taiwan: a rich defensible island of [--] M pop with lots of money but no serious military service (should have [---] M trained equipped reservists viz almost none) Active 88K () spends 2.2% of GDP on defense. Ok near Tasmania"
X Link 2023-09-16T15:38Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Le FFAA potrebbero facilmente proteggere il territorio Italiano dalle invasioni barbare senza uccidere nessuno semplicemente riportando chi arriva da dove e' partito. Dopo un po' nessuno paghera' i trafficanti. Si e' vero nn e' un incarico ludico ne cerimonioso ma pattriotico"
X Link 2023-09-16T15:44Z 61K followers, [---] engagements
"Will the all-knowing experts of the Intelligence community (17 agencies that sometimes talk) kindly explain how North Korea develops ballistic missiles etc + keeps a million in poorly fed but well-munitioned armed forces for $25 billion the Pentagon's budget for office supplies"
X Link 2023-09-16T18:57Z 61.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Lviv [----] Ukrainians killing Jews before Germans started doing so but they photographed. Still it will all be forgotten after a millenium or two"
X Link 2023-09-16T19:02Z 61.8K followers, [--] engagements
"European Commission Pres von der Leyen has listed the measures needed to stop illegal immigration from southern Mediterrean coastlines including "limit the use of unseaworthy vessels. and ensure the disabling of recuperated boats and dinghies". No boats= no trafficked migrants"
X Link 2023-09-18T01:53Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"A very serious failure: the US quality press + Sc American & Lancet propagated Anthony Fauci's deception as "THE SCIENCE" ignoring inter alia Le Monde's [--] avril [----] detailed expose' (Lab was French-built) + RAI/Leonardoenabling the Chinese cover-up"
X Link 2023-09-18T15:52Z 61.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Yes many warships. It would require half the Sry-class submarines to sink them all w/o imprudent lingering. PM Kishida has said that Japan would not stand aside if Taiwan is invaded & that is the politely quiet way of intervening & yes US warships too are just targets nowadays"
X Link 2023-09-19T16:58Z 61.8K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Roger: do not believe that Xi Jinping's aggressive PRC will last for [--] years. A rapidly ageing and shrinking population does not correlate with aggression Lets hope that #WW3 can be discouraged in the next [--] Years that separate us from #China final decision to annex #Taiwan Lets hope that #WW3 can be discouraged in the next [--] Years that separate us from #China final decision to annex #Taiwan"
X Link 2023-09-20T16:47Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"Both in Eur and US some believe that stopping immigration is immoral (wealth should be shared) and uneconomic (we need the labor). But they refuse to argue the case & just tell sob stories. Nor do they offer airlifts. As for the depressive effect on our working-class wages: zero"
X Link 2023-09-20T20:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More shameless self-advertizing [--]. define a pre-condemned category (counter-revolutionaries Mao's landlords now Oligarch) [--]. List names under those categories & its done ; no specific evidence needed they are already condemned"
X Link 2023-09-21T01:41Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Jeff Yass has 21$B invested in Tik Tok's parent company. Therefore he funds "Club for Growth" not registered as a lobby for China but merely acting as if it were. Tik Tok captures teens from sleep or study with its hypnotic short films. Sen Rand Paul blocked an overdue ban. WHY"
X Link 2023-09-21T15:29Z 60.4K followers, [--] engagements
"After my artisanal complaint about the failure to prohibit Tik Tok because of the purchase of political influence by the billionaire Jeff Yass I see on the front page of the Wall Street Journal the full story: "The billionaire keeping Tik Tok on phones." Ruins young minds"
X Link 2023-09-21T16:19Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Chinese ambassador has called on the Philippines not to be distracted by minor incidents at sea and to focus on improving economic and political relations. That is standard operating procedure: pretend that the warships threatening the Philippines do not exist & all is well"
X Link 2023-09-22T18:06Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Am distubed by the ease with which the Rule of Law was thrown out of the window to go after the billionaires in the Forbes list that had Russian names. That was enough: as Oligarchs they lost all rights to their property without any trial"
X Link 2023-09-22T23:45Z 61.8K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Russians and Ukrainians launch token air attacks against each other killing a few and irritating many while gaining no advantage. Given that there is no path to victory by aerial bombardment for either side why not an air war moratorium Just one more limit in a Limited War"
X Link 2023-09-25T23:56Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Not surprising that armed forces around the world refuse to learn the lesson of the Ukraine war re the irremediable vulnerability of surface vessels armed helicopters amd tanks w/o active defenses. In spite of the utterly undeniable value of unmanned a/c they get 5% air force $$"
X Link 2023-09-29T02:06Z 61.8K followers, 12.7K engagements
"A US-Saudi mutual security treaty would serve both sides v well w Saudis mindful of key US interests & vice versa. On the other hand a US-Israel security treaty is irremediably wrong in principle & ot worth discussing: the very purpose of the Israeli state is Jewish defense"
X Link 2023-10-01T16:32Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Who has failed to notice that drones can provide every form of air power from field re-supply to strategic bombing at a fraction of the cost of equivalent manned aircraft Only pacifist Mennonites in the Bolivian Amazon and the world's air-force planners. Most egregious: B-21"
X Link 2023-10-01T21:32Z 61.8K followers, 40.6K engagements
"The Ukraine war differs fundamentally from WWII because it is a Limited War Aside from the non-abuse of nuclear weapons (proper use: strike-back deterrence only) the US & Russia maintain diplomatic relations share a space station etc. V. Nice but Limited Wars can last decades"
X Link 2023-10-01T21:41Z 60.7K followers, 31.1K engagements
"How come today's "drones" re-active armor sea-skimming anti-ship missiles tank active defenses were all first developed in Israel From Harvard University Press The Art of Military Innovation Edward N. Luttwak Eitan Shamir ISBN 9780674660052"
X Link 2023-10-01T22:09Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine's War is like WWI not WWII w manpower the key. Putin's refusal to mobilize the army w its conscripts (Russian mothers would storm the Kremlin) is offset by the abundance of (well paid) volunteers. But UKR has yet to cancel the nationality of its passport-holders abroad"
X Link 2023-10-02T16:19Z 61.8K followers, 77.3K engagements
"I do not believe that if Slovakia leaves the Ukraine coalition there will be further defections. The problem rather is the lack of a realistic war-winning strategy which cannot ever be replaced by new equipment. 10% of the pop should be in uniform to yield [--] million combatants"
X Link 2023-10-02T17:01Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In China all media bitterly attack the "frantic" US attempts to strangle China's growth In the real world China's BYD electrical car co No.1 threat to Tesla has billions from Warren Buffett & total US investments in China increased in [----] to $126.1 billion mostly in High Tec"
X Link 2023-10-04T16:21Z 61.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese media now depict a United States that resembles the Japan of [---] propaganda films a country of hateful haters out to harm & humiliate the Chinese people. Reality: US direct investments in China companies reached $126.1 billion in [----] a 9% () increase over 2021"
X Link 2023-10-04T16:37Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"Every war must end. Pres Putin should follow the example of George III. On receiving the first US envoy Adams he said: "I was the last to consent to Independence .but I am.the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power. Ukr & Rus share roots"
X Link 2023-10-04T19:52Z 67K followers, 16.4K engagements
"Yes erosion: white males less attracted to military service because it is no longer shaped for them the no-smoking no-drinking no masculinity push of society aided by trendy generals (eg Petraeus shut down the invisible SOF micro-bar at Bagram .) repells the best obviously"
X Link 2023-10-05T16:38Z 61.8K followers, 103.1K engagements
"Unless Putin can embrace Ukraine as a fully independent country whose roots are shared with Russia's the war will simply continue gradually de-populating Ukraine and driving more and more of the most talengted Russians into exile. China advances each day in Inner/Central Asia"
X Link 2023-10-05T16:48Z 61.8K followers, 11K engagements
"It is frustrating for Russian strategists that they can extract no advantage from their nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. But the discovery that they are too powerful to be useful (the paradoxical logic of strategy) dates from [----] when the US could not use them in Korea"
X Link 2023-10-05T19:14Z 61.8K followers, 10.2K engagements
"admirable persistence. W [--] months of intensive training supervised by NCOs trained in national-service countries (sorry ROC officers no can do) Taiwan could add a [---] million militia that would outnumber 10:1 any air-landed or amphibious force (PLA=less that [--] M ground troops)"
X Link 2023-10-06T02:34Z 61.8K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Military training benefits almost all. In 19th century EUR compulsory military service trained European peasants to read write a bit & wash once a week whether they needed to or not. [--] years of military service leave Israelis w many skills but much less can be enough to defend"
X Link 2023-10-06T02:53Z 61.8K followers, 18.3K engagements
"Now that the Biden Adm has decided to control entry into the United States it can politely ask Panama to stop the arrivals via the Darien Gap's very few transitable miles. They can live w/o the bribery income. BTW: Chinese Intel illegals & criminals arrive via Panama"
X Link 2023-10-06T15:44Z 61.8K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Naturally Hamas threatens to kill the Israelis it has captured incl the brave grandmother and the infants unless Israel obeys its commands. Obviously Israel cannot surrender to the demand and neither can it counter-threaten Gaza's civilians because HAMAS cares not a fig for them"
X Link 2023-10-09T18:30Z 61.8K followers, 29.7K engagements
"It happened on Netanyahu's watch: so few troops were deployed in the perimeter around Gaza that they were easily overwhelmed as in the case of the much-filmed single Merkava tank captured by Hamas where at least [--] were needed. After the war Netanyahu must patriotically resign"
X Link 2023-10-10T01:09Z 61.8K followers, 54.7K engagements
"Hamas rules Gaza as a pure dictatorship: locals who prefer peace lose their lives if they fail to disguise their lack of enthusiasm for futile rocket attacks that evoke Israel's retaliation or for the war just started. Though elected into office Hamas refuses new elections"
X Link 2023-10-10T01:42Z 60.6K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Soon Israel will run out of high-value Hamas bombing targets. At that point absent a cease-fire its forces must enter Gaza to pursue the war on the ground. Last IDF troops were riding in thinly armored 10-ton M.113s . This time they have [--] ton Namers with active defenses"
X Link 2023-10-10T01:49Z 61.8K followers, 35.9K engagements
"there were hardly any soldiers on the line because Intelligence optimism contaminated military planning whose first duty is to remain pessimistic"
X Link 2023-10-10T01:59Z 61.8K followers, 56.8K engagements
"The surprised reactions to Harvard's anti-semitic ("pro-Hamas") demonstrations reveal deep ignorance. Modern anti-semitism was born in Euro universities in 19th cent: when they introduced written exams Jewish students overtook the rest. DEI reduces Jews but not enough evidently"
X Link 2023-10-12T00:49Z 61.8K followers, 18.6K engagements
"In [----] Nasrallah dictator chief of Iran-funded Shi'a Hezbollah started a war that wrecked Shi'a villages & towns. Unlike Arafat who always sacrificed Palestinians for Palestine Nasrallah apologized: "I would not have started the war had I known what Israel could do". More now"
X Link 2023-10-12T02:42Z 61.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Arab/Muslim students understandably side with Palestine. But the others are like the inventors of modern anti-semitism: 19th century European "legacy" students inexplicably overtaken by poor Jews whose parents still spoke Yiddish as soon as written exams were introduced. Now DEI"
X Link 2023-10-12T02:51Z 61.8K followers, 14.7K engagements
"The President of Harvard University previously a remarkably undistinguished sociologist elevated for unknown reasons has faltered tripped up etc But if a lampost were chosen to be Harvard's President would you blame the lampost No . It is the trustees who betray institutions"
X Link 2023-10-13T04:39Z [--] followers, 27.4K engagements
"Pres Biden's support for Israel including the aircraft carrier (originally in the Med for other reasons) helps to dissuade Hezbollah from serving their Iranian Rev Guard paymasters by also launching rockets. Plus: their leader Nasrallah cares for his people (as Hamas does not)"
X Link 2023-10-13T14:09Z 60.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Tactical plans found on dead Hamas fighters show that they were supposed to go beyond the first line of villages to attack deeper targets incl an air force depot. But were stopped by civilians with small arms (and one ret general with a handgun)"
X Link 2023-10-13T14:54Z 61.8K followers, 16.2K engagements
"It is despiriting to see pro-Palestinian students demonstrating for Hamas because it reveals an ignorance so complete that they do not even know that Hamas totally opposes Palestinian nationhood. It stands for undivided Islam like ISIS did. Plus the PLO includes Christians"
X Link 2023-10-13T15:28Z 61.8K followers, 37.6K engagements
"I discovered yesterday that a carefully prepared Ivy League seminar (w air travel for some) can be shut down by [--] climate fanatics w the Dean Uni police & city police all refusing to do anything. "We have a protocol" was the answer when I called for driving them out"
X Link 2023-10-13T15:49Z 60.1K followers, 46.7K engagements
"In US universities many students now devote their time to self-expression instead of learning anything at all. Eg the "Pro-Palestine Pro-Hamas" shouters do not even know that Islamist Hamas utterly rejects Palestinian nationalism as the separatist enemy of the "Islamic nation""
X Link 2023-10-13T18:37Z 61.8K followers, 26.6K engagements
"The Hamas message is that they are fighting for the Al Aksa Mosque and not for the Palestinians still unforgiven by Kuwaitis & Saudis for supporting Saddam's Iraq against them; by Egyptians because Gaza was theirs until 1967; by Lebanese because they abused their hospitality"
X Link 2023-10-13T18:49Z 61.8K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Power is Mass multiplied Cohesion. Israel's population or wealth or weapon numbers have not increased since the war started but its power has been magnified by national unity Eg: hard to get any flight into Israel because every seat is taken by reservists eager to serve"
X Link 2023-10-14T02:02Z 60.1K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Overheard gents talking about sending US troops in Israel. Probability: zero. Israel has [---] K active + ready reserves plus older in local defense. The much reduced US Army has [------] active & Marine Corps [------] (incl rape counsellors or perhaps it is anti-rape counsellors.)"
X Link 2023-10-14T14:07Z 60.2K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Trying to fly to Israel ("to take the waters") No transatantic flights must be via Europe but v hard to find a seat. All the fault of Israeli reservists leaving Silicon valley jobs villas in Tuscany backpacker holidays Berlin.to rejoin their units even if not recalled"
X Link 2023-10-14T14:55Z 61.8K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Hamas is "progressive". Eg U of C Berkeley Prof () Judith Butler self-proclaimed Lesbian Understanding Hamas Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive that are on the Left that are part of a global Left is extremely importantHamas kills lesbians progressively"
X Link 2023-10-14T21:23Z 61.8K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Anwar Sadat understood strategy. In the [----] October war that regained the Sinai for Egypt notwithstanding military defeat captured Israeli soldiers were treated properly. Hamas tactical planning was v good but its strategy is terrible. Atrocities lose allies and unites enemies"
X Link 2023-10-15T03:56Z 60.1K followers, 32.4K engagements
"Beijing:"China-India border talks do not progress because India.always wants more and with US endorsement refuses.compromise. Then the warning: "this.might backfire". Ie. Beijing wants India to accept the loss of territories seized by China over the years.or else lose more"
X Link 2023-10-15T16:19Z 61.8K followers, 17.4K engagements
"I fully expect Vladimir Putin to remain strictly neutral as Israel acts in Gaza to demolish the subterranean Hamas base structure. If he revokes his pact with the Jews he will join the very long list of history's losers & some of closest friends"
X Link 2023-10-15T17:10Z 61.8K followers, 39.3K engagements
""A number of people were reportedly abducted by the militants. Japan strongly condemns such acts and urges their immediate release. Japan is deeply concerned about a number of casualties in Gaza as well. All the parties concerned should exercise maximum restraint"Pre-Abe language"
X Link 2023-10-15T17:29Z 60.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Two US aircraft carriers close by invite Hezbollah to stay out of the fight--their bombing capacity is magnified by proximity. The ayatollah regime that has now alienated almost all educated Iranians seeks victories abroad to offset utter failure at home but Nasrallah's hesitates"
X Link 2023-10-16T11:34Z 60.4K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Iran's dictatorship routinely sacrifice the interests of Iran's people to attack Israel the US and its Arab allies by expensively equipping their enemies w weapons. Now they want Hezbollah to attack Israel sacrificing Lebanon's Shia on behalf of anti-Shia ultra Sunni Hamas"
X Link 2023-10-16T22:19Z 60.1K followers, 17.3K engagements
"Because embarked US Marines have joined the two aircraft carrier groups (to deter Iran's Hezbollah auxiliaries) there is talk of "US boots on the ground" . Probability : zero. Israel will not ask nor accept US troops. US troops were & are the US Marine guards at the US Embassy"
X Link 2023-10-17T02:28Z 60.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"The target of Israeli ground forces in Gaza is the vast tunnel network (tunnels for rocket assembly; for storage of rocket materials weapons ammo command/comm centers). Israel's 70-ton Namer vehicles can deliver the combat engineers & escorting troops"
X Link 2023-10-17T02:36Z 60.3K followers, 41.7K engagements
"However well-intentioned those who want to stop the war before Israel can destroy the subterranean Hamas infrastructure of bomb-proof tunnels where rockets are produced weapons stored and chiefs are safe are rowing against Israel's impellent need to reduce the Hamas threat"
X Link 2023-10-17T02:59Z 60.1K followers, 26.3K engagements
"Thank you. It came from US or is there a local publication"
X Link 2023-10-17T03:16Z 61.8K followers, 17.1K engagements
"After each of Israel's Wars there is a commission of inquiry headed by the most respected people in the country. When not everything went well resignations follow. The head of the security service Shin-Bet has already accepted responsibility. So will Prime Minister Netanyahu"
X Link 2023-10-17T03:50Z 60.3K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Exactly on time the "atrocity" arrives care of Iran's Islamic Jihad : it was their rockets on depressed trajectories that hit the hospital not bombs or missiles on oblique vectors. The crowds in Turkey & Amman do not want to know it but the Israel air force avoids hospitals"
X Link 2023-10-17T21:50Z 60.3K followers, 67K engagements
"More than [---] Hamas & Islamic Jihad rockets have fallen within the Gaza strip. One more fell on a hospital killing many. But the crowds do not want the truth they want an excuse to vent their rage- born against their corrupt rulers but Islamically vented against non-believers"
X Link 2023-10-18T08:12Z 60.3K followers, 29.8K engagements
"Since when is the region exclusively Arab Until expelled in the 1950s there were many Greeks in Egypt Jewish communities in every Arab country ex Saudi Arabia "Phoenician" Maronites and Syria's Alawites neither Arab nor Muslim wrote Assad's grandfather to the French"
X Link 2023-10-20T09:04Z 60.2K followers, 20.3K engagements
"Arab leaders did not try to control the mobs that agitated against Israel because Islamic Jihad rockets hit the hospital's parking lot. They lacked the legitimacy to do so & so decided to diminish their unpopularity by going along and even inciting on their own"
X Link 2023-10-20T09:11Z 61.8K followers, 29K engagements
"Ukraine's fate will be decided in Kiev not in Washington DC. Having resisted bravely to win their indepedence irreversibly Ukraine's leaders must now act to end the war by offering a territorial settlement with fully supervised plebiscites (1919 rules) in the disputed regions"
X Link 2023-10-20T09:15Z 60.3K followers, 39.5K engagements
"In Turkey the moustached who deem deodorant girlish keep their women headdressed support Erdogan and oppose Israel (outraged at Jews that fight when Turks do not) are out in force to support of both Islamist Hamas and the Palestinian nation that Hamas fiercely opposes"
X Link 2023-10-20T18:46Z 60.2K followers, 31.3K engagements
"centenerian anti-semite . Not clear if gratitously so or in order to affirm the Muslim identity in Malaysia where non-Muslim Indians and Chinese do much of the work without getting their share of governmemt handouts and jobs. Because of him Malaysian Fed is officially anti-sem"
X Link 2023-10-20T20:07Z 60.3K followers, 23.1K engagements
"China's Coast Guard has far larger vessels than its counterparts anywhere incl [-----] ton "cutters" five times larger that the largest US Coast Guard ships. Why To push aside Philippine Vietnamese & other vessels to seize control of waters more than [----] n miles from China"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:04Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Given the shoving and pushing that is expanding China's control of South-East Asian waters depriving Vietnamese & Philippine fishermen of their livelihood (Chinese fishermen move in) to assert China's claim to absurdly distant waters the US should be there with the Coast Guard"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:10Z 60.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Muslim solidarity celebrates Hamas violence against Jewish civilians overlooks Hamas hostility against Shias and its rejection of Palestine nationalism (Hamas like ISIS holds that all Muslims should be under one Caliph) but no Muslim country accepts Palestinian refugees not one"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:17Z 60.5K followers, 25.9K engagements
"The Gaza hospital was hit by Hamas or IJ rockets but the false accusers do not retract & Muslims world-wide still vent their rage. But no Muslim state offers to take in Palestinian refugees as Europe took in [--] M Syrian refugees"
X Link 2023-10-23T18:28Z 60.6K followers, 96.7K engagements
"A few words to explain how & why Israel's security establishment (Intel/ Security/ I. Defense Forces) failed to prevent the deadly incursion--including the recurrent delusion (eg [-----] labor permits had just been issued for Gaza residents)"
X Link 2023-10-24T02:00Z 60.5K followers, 51.4K engagements
"It is very nice that the New York Times has retracted its headlines re [---] killed by Israeli bombing of a hospital (50 were killed by a Hamas rocket). Will it pay for the restoration of the destroyed historic synagogue in Tunisia Will it airdrop leaflets over inflamed Turkey"
X Link 2023-10-24T11:35Z 60.1K followers, [----] engagements
"In Turkey last week anti-Israel agitation quickly became anti-semitic with Stars of David & not just Israeli flags-- unsurprising given years of Erdogan's invective against the "Saturday People who raise interest rates".(While the "Sunday People" are anti-Turkish & pro-Greek)"
X Link 2023-10-25T04:02Z 60.6K followers, 15.2K engagements
"Xi Jinping is underpaid (as Pres of China +Gen Sec of Party +Chairman of Military Comm-the key job he gets less than $80K ) & overworked. Hence he had no time to explain why he appointed then quickly fired Def Min Li Shangfu & Foreign Min Qin Gang. They opposed his Taiwan war"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:27Z 60.4K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Erdogan's support of Hamas (I do understand why he would enjoy the atrocities) is one more attack on the majority of Turks who are too well educated not to know that a Hamas victory would mean stringent Islamic rule on all Palestinians (incl Christians) forcing them to flee"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:33Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"It is in Gaza's tunnel network that Hamas stores the materials needed to make rockets assembles the rockets and then moves them to launch openigs. Hamas command posts and shelters for leaders are also in tunnels. Until the IDF enters Gaza Israel's tunnel commandos can only wait"
X Link 2023-10-25T19:48Z 60.6K followers, 13.9K engagements
"It was the refusal to bomb Iran regime targets when it held US diplomats hostage (to save them from harm) that unleashed Iran's unceasing aggressions against its neighbors including US allies. If the Gov of Israel hesitates to invade because of the hostages many more will die"
X Link 2023-10-25T19:55Z 60.5K followers, 19.1K engagements
"The Israeli army cannot be prevented from accomplishing its task of destroying the tunneled infrastructure of Hamas and its defenders because of the hostages. Thousands have died because Hamas was allowed to grow into a real threat. If it now survives unattacked more will die"
X Link 2023-10-26T02:53Z 60.5K followers, 15.1K engagements
"What HIAS has wrought: used Jewish money to import Muslims into the US . Jewish organizations and individuals (or semi-Jews like Sergey Brin) who give money to HIAS are self-destructive. They should stop. Diverse Muslims find their only common ground in hostility to Israel"
X Link 2023-10-26T05:33Z 67K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Retired generals talk of "house-to-house" fighting in Gaza. No such thing: the only target of an offensive is underground: the tunnel network in which rockets are produce weapons stored & commanders shelter all built w cement diverted from "refugee housing" aid. Better sooner"
X Link 2023-10-26T16:30Z 60.6K followers, 23K engagements
"Israel's new coalition government cannot wait any longer to launch the long-planned offensive to destroy the Hamas tunnel network in which rockets are assembled and their components are stored and which houses command posts weapons equipment and ammunition. Time is running out"
X Link 2023-10-26T16:49Z 60.7K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Muslim students in the US recruited by Palestine activists agitate against Israel. How come they ignore the persecuted Uyghurs Or China's Hui whose mosques are deformed if not just demolished. And why do they overlook the desperate Rohingya Jewish students are their target"
X Link 2023-10-27T05:45Z 60.7K followers, 24K engagements
"The Israeli offensive is overdue & should be delayed no longer no matter who asks. Without it the network of Hamas tunnels that constitute its base cannot be destroyed and the war must continue sine die.while rockets continue to land in Israel. The war must end soon"
X Link 2023-10-27T06:00Z 60.6K followers, 19.7K engagements
"Li Keqiang died of natural causes after having died politically but even worse was Li's abject surrender to Xi's priority : "the rejunevation" of China consisting of "wolf-warrior" diplomacy (Wang Yi went from model diplomat to snarling dog) + aggression viz Viets Pinoys INDIA"
X Link 2023-10-27T17:08Z 60.6K followers, [----] engagements
"If you are referring to the IDF offensive into Gaza now overdue its only and sufficient purpose is the destruction of the Hamas tunnel complex (cca 50km) that contains Hqs all stores and rockets are made"
X Link 2023-10-27T17:12Z 60.6K followers, 19.6K engagements
"The Russian attack to seize Avdiivka a small town (31000 pre-war ) in central Donetsk oblast cost more than 3K casualties. At this rate of attrition the Russian proletariat will shrink considerably if war persists (Russians w any money do not fight). Patriots would stop it now"
X Link 2023-10-28T15:37Z 60.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"Keep hearing that people are surprised by the eruption of anti-semitism in the leading US universities. But if they look it up they will discover that modern racial anti-semitism started in European universities once written admission exams were introduced. The US remedy : DEI"
X Link 2023-10-28T15:58Z 60.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Anti-semitism at Harvard Of course. Jews went from 7% in [----] to 21% in [----]. A 15% quota & later a "geographic diversity"trick reduced them but after WWII Jews filled the place.DEI squeezes them below 15% but the "diverse" incl Muslims cannot compete w them so they Palestine"
X Link 2023-10-30T03:46Z 60.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"The verb "To Palestine" =vehement agitation over matters of which the excited ones know little & are disproportionate ab initio given Tibet Xinjiang Myanmar. True for Muslim students hating Jews is unifying given their diverse origins .The rest Fools knaves & the envious"
X Link 2023-10-30T13:06Z 60.8K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Putin would respond appropriately Re Russia in WW2 Stalin tried to be Hitler's loyal ally --there was oil on route to Germany when war started In WWII the Russian army saved Jews incidentally not deliberately but Jewish soldiers officers were not impeded when trying to help Jews"
X Link 2023-10-31T16:00Z 60.8K followers, 17.7K engagements
"No grudgingly--it was just that the Russian army was trying to get to Berlin as soon as possible. Jews from Poland who were deported to Russia or fled there by choice had high survival rates. Also Soviet partisans accepted Jews in their ranks unlike the Polish resistance"
X Link 2023-10-31T23:41Z 60.8K followers, 22.9K engagements
"To serve Iran will Nasrallah sacrifice the homes & many lives of his Shia' followers to join Sunni/Islamist Hamas that rejects all Shi'a as heretics Will he sacrifice Hezbollah's stake in the Lebanese State already near collapse He promises to tell us in his Friday speech"
X Link 2023-11-01T16:42Z 60.8K followers, 11.9K engagements
"In Today's Washington Post a subheadline has hundreds dead in Jabalia a photo shows maybe [--] bodies arrayed by Hamas for the cameras and the lead has scores of dead. Hamas reserves the ubiquitius tunnels to shelter its own men stating that civilians must be protected by the UN"
X Link 2023-11-01T16:50Z 60.8K followers, 13K engagements
"Iran's Twelver Shia theocrats generously support ultra-Sunni Hamas that views them as heretics as well as Yemen's Fiver and Sevener Shia who are heretics in their eyes because as Persians they believe that Arabs simpletons are best governed by themselves. Saudis know this"
X Link 2023-11-02T01:20Z 60.8K followers, 38.6K engagements
"Iran's ayatollah/rev guard regime knows how to stay in power sacrificing only twelver Shi'a religion whose market share has halved. But food prices have been rising much more than wages so there is increasing hunger while oil revenues are misused to pay for Shi'a militias"
X Link 2023-11-04T11:02Z 60.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"I particulary admire "Queers for Palestine" who should hold a rally in Gaza at the first opportunity or in Tehran"
X Link 2023-11-04T21:21Z 61.8K followers, 28K engagements
"non-Muslim pro-Hamas students equate Arabs with Black/Colonial victims of powerful Whites ("settler-colonial state") unaware of Hamas's true motive: Islam validated by Muhammad's victories also over Jews promises victory so Israeli victories since [----] invalidate the faith"
X Link 2023-11-04T22:48Z 60.8K followers, 17.5K engagements
"Some American Blacks (eg Ibrahim X Kelly) assume Arab names to dissociate themselves from Western slavers blissfully unaware of the fact that the Arab slave trade up the Red Sea started centuries before its Atlantic counterpart lasted till [----] (in Sudan) and thrives in Libya"
X Link 2023-11-04T22:52Z 60.9K followers, 36.3K engagements
"Biden's decades of foreign-policy expertise (ridiculed in Obama's White House: Biden was usually right eg on Afghan army fraud but overruled) emerged in his reaction to October [--] when his deeds exceeded his words & not vice-versa. That reassured US allies as far away as Taiwan"
X Link 2023-11-05T06:11Z 60.8K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Edward N Luttwak @ELuttwak Mossad chief David Barnea has just made a low-key statement (re Iran's leaders) that its operational arm which has a record making irrevocable personnel changes inside Iran is neither on strike nor on vacation. Obviously he sees a deterrence deficit"
X Link 2023-11-05T06:41Z 60.7K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Mossad chief David Barnea has just made a low-key statement (re Iran's leaders) that its operational arm which has a record of making irrevocable personnel changes inside Iran is neither on strike nor on vacation. Obviously he thinks that there is a deterrence deficit w Iran"
X Link 2023-11-06T03:01Z 60.8K followers, 26.7K engagements
"Ukraine is withering in the shadows while the Israel-Iran conflict (via interposed Arab servitors) is brightly illuminated. The transparent battlefield allows none to mount surprise attacks reduces the fighting to grinding attrition. Long-term aid to Ukraine must be affirmed now"
X Link 2023-11-07T02:41Z 60.8K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Iran's theocracy is so oppressive and so corrupt (countless prelates have robes cut from Loro Piana cloth) that half the population is no longer Twelver Shia. But by diverting oil revenues to buy the loyalty of armed militias Iran can inflict damage--w impunity. Deterrence"
X Link 2023-11-07T03:03Z 67K followers, [----] engagements
"U.S. troops in Iraq & Syria have been attacked by Iran's militias [--] times since Oct. [--] w [--] reported injuries incl. traumatic brain injuries & one contractor died of a heart attack.Evidently Iran's rulers are not afraid of US retaliation. Needed just that: retaliation"
X Link 2023-11-08T20:33Z 60.8K followers, 19.5K engagements
"Do the Trustees of Columbia University know that a person called Joseph Massad is a professor in the department of Middle East Studies Do they know what he has said and written of late Do they think that incitment to murder Jews qua Jews is a legitimate academic pursuit"
X Link 2023-11-09T17:53Z 60.9K followers, 14.8K engagements
"A new version of XI Jinping's "China Dream" -a journey towards a better future: it starts with air travel to South America then a treck to the US border via Panama's perilous Dairen Gap. They are bright dynamic and see no future in China"
X Link 2023-11-09T19:56Z 60.9K followers, [----] engagements
"NYT/WP other stringers joined the Hamas incursion to record the stunning victory over a few Israeli soldiers & civilians with handguns. They photographed the girls pulled by their hair etc. Muslims even Columbia U profs exploded in sheer joy -finally a victory. But no Day [--] plan"
X Link 2023-11-10T03:06Z 60.9K followers, 26.6K engagements
"Jin Canrong Prof/Ass Dean School of International Studies Renmin U claims that Western Civilization is not rooted in Ancient Greek rationality-works attributed to Aristotle are a medieval pastiche. Canrong as others in rapidly ageing China have lost the faith & turned bitter"
X Link 2023-11-10T21:28Z 60.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Black slaves are still present in the Muslim world (In Libya trapped West African emigrants are enslaved; in Sudan those captured in Darfur are sold off; and in Qatar yes. the ruler's household has "workers" with no IDs or wallets. At MIT also they found a prancing specimen"
X Link 2023-11-10T22:16Z 60.9K followers, 32.9K engagements
"The October [--] Hamas attack may have been intended to disrupt the intensifying relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States as well as the rapprochement with Israel. The Saudi reaction has been a sophistcated mix of signals to all parties. See"
X Link 2023-11-11T15:17Z 60.9K followers, 11.3K engagements
"When Sartre's & Derrida's "deconstruction" won over English lit departments in US and UK universities nobody in politics noticed the conclusion that the hegemony of Western civilization had to be obliterated. Now they agitate against "settler-colonial" Israel. US CAN AUS NZ"
X Link 2023-11-12T16:19Z 60.9K followers, 14K engagements
"Hamas attacked Israel precisely to evoke its counter-offensive which Hamas control over Gaza imagery would portray as an attack against women and children (Hamas censors all images of its fighters).Many would die but at least the males among them would much enjoy their martyrdom"
X Link 2023-11-14T03:23Z 60.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
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