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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
There is an undeniable circular logic to the administration’s Iran strategy. Promise that escalating against Iran is the solution. If it works, escalate more. If it doesn’t work and Iran retaliates, say this proves the need for further escalation. And now here we are. — PolitiTweet.org
Nicholas Miller @Nick_L_Miller
For months, Pompeo was telling us maximum pressure had reduced the threat posed by Iran’s proxies, when the evidenc… https://t.co/X6HmkiQL6z
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
A datapoint for those wondering whether the US has fully thought through and prepared for the consequences: Official Pentagon statement on killing Soleimani misstates the name of the organization he led. — PolitiTweet.org
JT @JarodATaylor
If we had a DASD for Middle East they would've told the PAO the "I" stands for Islamic and not Iranian https://t.co/iEDeXRXRUQ
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The American way of war has always been to assume that we can dictate conflict terms that will maximize our safety and convenience. Topple Saddam with no need to occupy; stabilize South Vietnam with no need to defeat North; attack Iran but only in Iraq. Rarely works out. — PolitiTweet.org
Robert Costa @costareports
Some of my best Hill sources tonight tell me there is very little to no appetite inside GOP for attacking Iran in I… https://t.co/pOjxyqb63j
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
One point to stress, though: Iran gets talked about in the US primarily as a nefarious adversary, but it is also a country of 80-plus million. Regular people, families, already suffering under sanctions. The greatest costs of war always fall on civilians. Worth keeping in mind. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Iran’s nuclear program is partial and appears dormant. Still, the mere possibility of breakout creates an escalatory pull. US might feel pressure to strike nuclear infrastructure early. Iran might feel pressure to restart development while it still can. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Iran has a network of allies and proxies. It has demonstrated assymetric capabilities. But its conventional power is significant as well. I reported last year on its partial but meaningful progress toward missiles that could reach well beyond the Mid East. https://t.co/OrBwdNM8qu — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
This is not Saddam’s half-decomposed Iraq or some bunch of North Vietnamese irregulars. Iran is a big, sophisticated regional power with far greater military capabilities than any country the US has gone to war with since WW2. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
If reports are true, assassinating Iran’s Soleimani would represent a major, overt act of war. Functionally and legally, it’s not a “risk of war” or “tantamount to war.” It is war outright, and against a country that has invested years of preparation into enduring just that. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @ilangoldenberg: We don’t know who was in the convoy yet. Lots of conflicting reports. Hard to imagine US purposefully would have gone a… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Not even 48 hours into it and we already have the most 2020 story imaginable https://t.co/Uh4fEZBgt9 https://t.co/1GqmYjC5wZ — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @akd2003: I never visit a museum anymore without wondering what personal history of hope or flight or refuge or fear connects the dry li… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @maxstrasser: Thought you couldn't be shocked by invasions of your privacy anymore? Read the first part of @cwarzel and @stuartathompson… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @bungarsargon: I clicked on The Daily today with trepidation. I love the show but it was tackling the super subtle topic of Trump's exec… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Lots of opinions about the appropriate place of social networks in regulating speech, but a viral post written in the language of genocide has been up for now 8 hours and going. — PolitiTweet.org
Barkha Trehan @trehan_barkha
India is for Indians, not for illegal immigrants like Rohingyas and Bangladeshis. We need pest control and must we… https://t.co/zEv8lxwIKc
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Activists often argue FPTP gives their opponents a structural geographic advantage, but this almost never bears out. FPTP consistently favors the PV winner. Two rare exceptions, 1987 and 2010, saw *Labour* with slightly more efficient vote/seat ratios despite losing the PV. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
In the 1997 UK election, each Labour seat took 32,340 votes to win. Each Tory seat took 58,188 votes. So it’s not true that "FPTP helps Tories.” It is true that FPTP exaggerates popular vote majorities and artificially shrinks the voice of minority parties. Which still matters! — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
It would be more accurate to say that FPTP helps the popular vote winner, exaggerating the number of seats they receiver per vote. Winning more votes means a wider distribution of votes across districts, which means that each incremental seat can be won with a smaller plurality. — PolitiTweet.org
George Eaton @georgeeaton
How many votes it took to elect an MP (how first-past-the-post helps the Tories). Conservatives: 38,265. Labour:… https://t.co/0YjU85Kh2U
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Here is our super-simple, six-point, top-line explainer on the big-deal British election, if you’re in the market for that sort of thing https://t.co/bQbfz4i1ry — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
@mikeduncan They said it — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
This take is everywhere, and it’s a profound misreading of how Labour lost the UK election. Corbyn is a wildly unpopular leader with triple-underwater unfavorables who was on the wrong side of his own party electorate on the issue defining this election and the nation’s future. — PolitiTweet.org
Andrew Sullivan @sullydish
One lesson from the UK: if the Democrats don't stop their hard-left slide, they'll suffer the same fate as Labour.… https://t.co/zTa6zkzNvk
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @Vinncent: I'm very happy to report that my book is now available for pre-order (it's out on May 19th, with @public_affairs). I would ge… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
I deleted an earlier version of this because it had a typo and if I’m going to tweet like once per month why add to the embarassment — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The odds that any panel I will get invited onto will turn out at the last minute to be a manel, and that this will become a problem I have to solve on the organizer's behalf, have become so high that I am considering just turning down all panels from now on (what a loss I know) — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
The odds that any panel I will get invited onto will turn out at the last minute to be a manel, and that this will become a problem I have to solve on the organizer's behalf, have become so high that I am considered a 100% panel turn-down policy — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @tomgara: Days before the 2016 election Ron Lauder bankrolled swing state ads depicting "The Islamic States of America" overrun by Musli… — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
@chrislhayes @mattyglesias The big distinction IMO are personalization and presidentialization, which are genuinely new as defining political forces and really change the nature of norm-trampling, since they allow or even compel that institutions will attacked in much more damaging, lasting ways. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
@mattyglesias I for one will never forget 🚨 #randomgate 🚨 — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
I was going to make a comment about how weird the UK can be but then I remembered I was looking at not one but two American exports. What a taste of home — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
White teen on my train from Canterbury to London wearing a jacket with a giant Confederate flag on the arm. It turned out to be Kanye West merch, which ... I am not sure makes it better https://t.co/vOqQMCwW2U — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
@HeerJeet @MattZeitlin You’re both right of course. Fitting that my glib lamentation of one form of damaging political misapprehensions contributed to another one. — PolitiTweet.org
