#Blinken

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

President-elect Joe Biden announced his first batch of appointments. As I've done throughout #BidenTransition, here's a thread on the national security elites and corporate consultants named to his administration. Tony

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

Democrats — including numerous Dem Party-aligned journalists — have spent all day smearing 2 Politico reporters as misogynistic because they had the sexist audacity to report on the very lucrative

nathanking

nathanking

Some thoughts on incoming Biden foreign policy team and the choices they face in Asia.1. It’s a really experienced team and the more they fill the ranks in Asia policy

Haleema Khalid

KHaleema746

Thread: Biden Administration's First 100 Days, Afghan Peace Process & South Asian Geopolitics - Challenges Ahead?Biden Administration’s politically calculated nominations depict a lot about the future course of action. The

Derek (Lid on Likes) (#Kraken Emeritus)

PereGrimmer

Have people gotten the joke yet about Buttigieg being a CIA / intelligence agency Trojan horse candidate who just so happens to have the same exact speaking cadences and positions

Joebama W. Trump

joebamatrump

THREAD: As we all know from the 2003 invasion of Iraq, propaganda is a prelude to war - and the propaganda around Iran's nuclear program has persistently continued throughout the

Rebeccah Heinrichs

RLHeinrichs

Voters didn’t get to hear much from the candidates about foreign policy. This is one of my biggest frustrations of this election. But here are a few of my favorite

Dan Shapiro

DanielBShapiro

THREAD: 1. The precise timing of a Biden-Netanyahu phone call, in my view, is the ultimate non-story. But since everyone seems to be talking about it, here is my take.

Amy B Wang

amybwang

Couple things going on here:1) Unlike the 2016 Tsai-Trump call, this might be the most direct congratulations we'll see between Taiwan and the U.S. (Replace Tsai with Taiwan's de facto

Madalina Vicari

v_madalina

Two dynamics currently unfolding in US Congress, aimed to raise the pressure to apply PEESCA sanctions on #NordStream2 In the House: two Republicans (Michael McCaul, Adam Kinzinger) & two

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

THREAD: Now that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named or nominated senior members of his foreign policy and national security team, it might be useful to survey what all they

Trita Parsi

tparsi

So diplomacy on how to revive the #IranDeal seems to have hit a roadblock even before it began. Iran & the US are publically dueling about who has to take

Michael Sobolik

michaelsobolik

.@TheEconomist is wrong. 1/xhttps://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/genocide-is-the-wrong-word-for-the-horrors-of-xinjiang This editorial makes three arguments:1) Atrocities in Xinjiang aren't genocide because they don't consti

Pres. Elect Samuel E Roberson Jr

SamRobersonJr

Thread;Joe Biden has already promised to pull the 7th Fleet from the S. China Sea which will open the door for China to invade Taiwan and take over their Technology

Meghan Bodette

_____mjb

Starting this today. Will post commentary as I go. Here’s how Ocalan and PKK are introduced. Straightforward and fair enough. The story about his sister’s marriage is something that comes

Prof. Madhav Nalapat

MD_Nalapat

Characteristic of those steeped in the culture of the Lutyens Zone is to fasten themselves to whichever party and whoever leader is dominant at the period,discarding the old in the

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