Edward Luttwak
@ELuttwak · Public intellectuals, authors & commentators
Edward Luttwak is a military strategist and author of Coup d'État and The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire.
Trump's enemies rejoyced in his failure to end the war (Patriotism is so passe'). But the stop to Iran's oil exports now strangles the regime, which survives on falling sales from remote storage. It now takes 2,28 M Rials to buy a US$. Was 1.8 M 30 days ago. The end is near
Jewish political stupidity is a constant There were Stalinists in the USA (one, now a Senator ! Honeymooned in Moscow !) in France top J intellectuals sided with Stalin even re t"he doctors' plot). Only in Italy, Senator Terracini denounced Soviet support for Arab dictators in 1967
Not even a Vatican usher (as we know, the Pope must criticize only Israel) protests the massacre of African Catholics, from Nigeria’s Plateau State all the way to Mozambique (where Islam was rare). Paid by the Qataris, they offer: conversion or death.
Translated from Italian"islam" =submission . Not coincidentally, 27 officially Islamic countries +19 Muslim-majority countries (ex Indonesia which holds elections) are ruled by dictators. Fools airlifted Somalia, as refugees [from other Somalis] and accepted Yemenis, so Islam is now corrupting US politics
Jews who were uninstructed enough to vote for Mandani now know that his father wrote to praise Idi Amin and the 9/11 suicide bombers, the wife is a red-hot Hamas supporter and he himself is an ever-smiling dissembler.
Erdogan who won his Presidency after arresting the most popular candidate (Turkey is a [Muslim] democracy) threatens Israel in florid bombast. But VTM to ESB is only 504 n.miles, as viz 992 to Tehran, while the Islamization of the Türk Hava Kuvvetler would allow a traquil ride,
In understand that the Pope must focus 100% on Gaza, but a lesser prelate should at least ask who is paying for the killing of Catholics in Africa. Latest: ISIS Claims the beheading of 16, and the shooting of 39 In DRC's Ituri Prov of dense forests where Muslims are very few.
Iran launched more than 2,500 of its primitive, grossly inaccurate missiles and LR drones at several countries with zero concerns for the consequences but the New York Times has one more front-page story about the possibility that 1 US weapon may have landed on a wedding party. Limitless effort to undermine US action viz the fanatical regime
When will the Washington Post stop citing Iran's agents to comment on Trump's Iran policies ? There is no need of pro-regime voices to note that those policies have been erratic, but to oppose the oil export blockade because it will provoke attacks is absurd: Iran has already attacked all countries within its reach incl friendly Oman and mediator Pakistan.
Ali Vaez in today's Washington Post. He is reliable: ask about any policy to resist Iran's dictatorship and Vaez will explain why it must fail. Now that Trump has finally stopped all oil exports, Vaez explains that he is "compelling the Iranians to resort to force". Absurd: Iran has already attacked all within reach incl friendly Oman.
By age 40, Israeli women with a college degree average the same number of children as peers with high school diplomas. The ultra-orthodox have more children but they are one fifth of the Jewish population. All healthy societies are philo-genitive. All healthy states grow their own tax papers
Iran's female fertility level of 1.5 , well-below the replacement level and identical to Denmark's is hard evidence that its peoples are post-Islamic, the not unexpected result of sectarian-religious oppression & non-stop self-celebration. Expect to visit Tehran when clerics will hide their idendity by wearing...ties !!!
Countries are not given, they are taken. If the people of Tehran, Mashad and Isphahan do not emerge all at once to take the streets nothing will happen. Perhaps Pahlavi needs to study konspiratsia
Iran's female fertility level, 1.5, identical to Denmark's proves that religious oppression has not stopped the modernization of Iran's society. Actually it has engendered a sui generis post-Islamic society
Three kinds of bread are subsidized in Iran (tasted two in Tabriz --excellent) what are their prices in Rials ? I suspect that the devaluation means that the low-salaried majority must dine mostly on bread and onions
The US had finally landed on the right strategy with Iran. No negotiations. Obama's famous deal funded the huge nuclear build-up that Trump bombed No use of force except to stop oil exports from Kharg, Yask, and offshore storage (if only by excaustion) Measure of success: US$/IRial x change rate" now approaching 2 million. W that: real salaries fall & regime too
decades into the US -Shi'a dictatorship conflict two things have happened: Iran has become a country of empty mosques where at least 55% of the pop has abandoned Shia Islam per se and some 70% its 1970s innovation, Ayatollah rule. 2nd: the US has found a strategy by stopping crude liftings w/o childish negotiating attempts. Measurable result: the rial/US$ exchange rate, which drives Rial inflation rate.
The moment Trump stopped Iran's oil exports from Kharg and Jask he acquired a winning strategy: remaining oil exports are from moored tankers, and will soon run out. Without oil revenues the Rev Guards cannot import rocket fuel, or nuclear tech nor pay off militias. No more MOUs please: persist in the winning strategy till the regime cracks
The accusation that Trump has no strategy to defeat Iran ceased to be true the day he stopped oil shipments. The Revolutionary Guards had first claim on the revenues which they did not waste on medicines, frozen lamb etc to give it to Hezbollah, the Houthis and Rev Guard missile plants, nuclear recovery efforts Pls no more MOUs
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is obsessed with Israel. He cancelled a missile purchase from Israel and then re-bought the same missiles via an European supplier for more money. Now he blames Israel for the Ceuta debacle. What next ? His predecessors in anti-semitism had a long list including bad harvests
Azerbaijan has neutralized the Iranian threat, limited dependence on Turkey, and de-conflicted relations with Armenia and Turkmenistan. Now it is time for a leap forward: a TransCaspian road, rail, & gasline bridge, to connect Central Asia to the world via Georgia
The Muslim Brotherhood, financed by Qatar, wants to destroy African Catholics with its jihadists, who burn churches in Nigeria and reach as far as faraway southern Mozambique to kill local Catholics and spread the primitive religion of slavery and jihad. The Vatican? Silence.
Translated from ItalianDi Battista is going to Cuba to support the Communist torturers and to attack the USA and the Meloni government. He falls ill, and the vaunted Cuban medicine is in tatters because the rulers have to live well. Why does the Meloni government want to fly him home at the taxpayers’ expense? Why doesn’t it make billionaire Hamas, which Di Battista fanatically supports, or Qatar, which pays them to kill Jews, pay for it?
Translated from ItalianDi Battista, who hates the West and the Jews, goes to Cuba not to help the victims of Communism but to criticize Meloni and attack the West. Since Cuba is a communist hell, it gets sick. Meloni sends planes to evacuate him. As B did with Sgrena, whom he bought from his terrorist friends without informing the Americans. The good Calipari was killed by an unsuspecting patrol. Why help wretches who support torturers?
Translated from ItalianYour statement collides with UN and other credible documents. Arafat & his successors very deliberately staged incidents each November to ruin the Christmas season essential for local Catholics. At nearby Cremisan the Italian priests complained uselessly about the complicity of the (100% Arab) Franciscans
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