Hawks say now is the time for Israel and the US to bomb #Iran 's nuclear facilities, which Biden has been too 'weak' to do. Tough vs weak are playground terms. The question is what could the bombing achieve. My column for Bloomberg Opinion
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The difference in Western help to defend #Israel against Iranian missiles, versus #Ukraine against Russian missiles on Saturday was stark -- and illogical. Time is running out fast to change that. My column for Bloomberg Opinion today. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Iran's missile barrage was a failure and Israel can turn it into a bigger win by ending the war in Gaza, which whatever its military successes has been a strategic disaster. My column for Bloomberg Opinion today. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Erdogan's loss in #Turkeyelection offers hope secular Turks, but he's a resourceful populist who remains in charge of a hyper-centralized state -- and he has until 2028 to restore the economy he broke, and his vote. My column for Bloomberg. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Putin should forget conspiracies and look at why his security services failed both in preventing and responding to the Moscow terror attack. Unlike pre-invasion Ukraine, the Islamist threat to Russian lives isn't imaginary, my column this AM. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Crocus City Hall: incompetence or deliberate failure of Russian security? An OSINT analysis euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/26/cro… This is interesting.

Putin's paranoia stopped him from listening to a US warning on Friday's terror attack, and from remembering that to Islamists he's still part of the West. My column for Bloomberg Opinion this morning. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Beware claims of hypocrisy based on comparing Ukraine and Gaza, they are manipulative and risk getting both wars wrong. My column for Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Biden's right: Netanyahu is damaging Israel's fundamental interest, which is to exist in peace. He's been doing so for at least a decade and a half, my piece for Bloomberg Opinion today. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Precision guided missiles and drones are the new suicide vests and IEDs, and it turns out wealthy nations offer target-rich environments for this kind of asymmetric warfare. Just ask Yemen's Houthis. My column for Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Sadly, each is largely right about the other.

'a busy cafe in downtown #Baku in #Azerbaijan , modern and pleasant architecture, waiters and waitresses in white shirts and black vests' and adding #FreeGubad also.
The people of Azerbaijan deserve better than a dictatorship that locks decent people up.
Zhala #experienceazerbaijan #freegubad #Cop29baku

Putin smells victory in #Ukraine and there's every reason to believe he has more on his agenda after that. So let's not find out how far that goes. My column on Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Netanyahu's 'day after' is nonsense as a plan. So treat it as the opening bid for negotiations on one for #Gaza that he, or a replacement, will eventually have to agree. My column for Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Alexey Navalny's fate shows the true face of Putin's Kremlin. He was too fearless to be allowed to live long. My column today for Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

If the US goes Awol on #UkraineRussiaWar , Kyiv will have to rely on Europe -- a bad place to be. But Europe has the means to step up, if it has the will and (a first) can be think and act strategically. My column for Bloomberg Opinion. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

#TuckerCarlson let #Putin hold court as expected in the #TuckerPutinInterview , with little effort to challenge his falsehoods. But there was a reveal that made it the whole manipulative circus worthwhile. My column this am. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

Fascinating exchange I hadn't seen -- telling how Otto von Bismarck didn't seem to grasp Grant's point on slavery, so Ulysses Grant keeps pounding it home.

My column on the current US air strikes.

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