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My take: “Positioning themselves as the party trying to save the regime strikes me as a losing political strategy [for Democrats] ahead of the 2028 presidential campaign,” said Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies @FDD, a think tank that has helped shape the Trump team’s thinking on Tehran.”
From @nahaltoosi: “And what if Trump keeps the military and economic pressure going and — hear me out — the effort works? What if the regime somehow melts away during his final years in office? Will Democrats look like they were on the wrong side of history? I can imagine the Democrats’ press releases now: “The Iranian regime was always a blight upon the world …”
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The UN secretary-general race is steeped in intrigue. Should we care?
Like it or not, the United States and the State of Israel have to deal with the world body.
@BenCohenOpinion in @JNS_org: bit.ly/4yVNVPY
🎙️ NEW Foreign Podicy: Israel’s elections and jihadi threats.
@ElliotKaufman6 & @jeremybob1 join @CliffordDMay to discuss their new book “In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis.”👇
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Syria hosts Iraqi PM for visit amid security challenges in north and south
@sfrantzman in FDD's @LongWarJournal: bit.ly/3Uln69D
Georgia became the first state to require disclosure of foreign funding in K-12 schools. HB 1379 passed in March 2026 after reports documented Qatari funding in Georgia public schools.
New FDD memo from @76brandy76 @JenRichmond @SimoneJWei: fdd.org/analysis/foreign-fun…
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Naval mines are a persistent threat that are sometimes easy to employ but hard to destroy.
New tech needs to be disseminated to the wider fleet time NOW
Read mine, @RyanBrobst_ , and Jordan Ross' recent piece in the Center for Maritime Strategy's The MOC for more
Link below⬇️
Washington should insist that any diplomatic agreement regarding the siege of Taiz must include the Houthis reopening roads from Taiz to government-controlled territory in southern Yemen, write @EFittonBrown and @BridgetKToomey: fdd.org/analysis/the-u-s-mus…
Putin wants to recover the revenue Russia lost from its decline in gas exports to Europe — and Washington is reportedly trying to help him. Keti Korkiya & @JohnH105: fdd.org/analysis/washington-…
Congress should block Trump’s dangerous Saudi nuclear deal
@StrickerNonpro in @dcexaminer: bit.ly/4sx9O6k
Florida teenager arrested in an Islamic State-linked bomb plot
@AggieWill00 in FDD's @LongWarJournal: bit.ly/3WjqFh4
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Behind the scenes of U.S. midterm races, another campaign is quietly taking shape. Congress is poised to vote on the Trump administration’s proposed nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia.
The agreement would open the door to exporting U.S. uranium enrichment technology for the first time since the Manhattan Project. That marks a dangerous break with eight decades of bipartisan American nonproliferation policy — and with numerous statutes Congress itself has written.
Lawmakers should oppose the agreement in its current form.
My latest for @dcexaminer:
washingtonexaminer.com/op-ed…
Poland beat out offers from Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, though the Pentagon and Lockheed said they will still contribute to the supply chain. These countries and the US pledged to explore creating the facility at the NATO summit in Ankara last July—@JohnH105
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The U.S.-Israel MOU expires in 2028. On today’s episode of the FDD Morning Brief, @realSamuelBenUr joins @JSchanzer to explain why the next deal should move beyond grants and toward making Israel more independent and America more secure. nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1OxwbndQZ…
On October 27, Taliban and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along the border between Afghanistan’s southeastern Paktika province and the Lower South Waziristan district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
@AggieWill00 has the details here: fdd.org/analysis/afghanistan…
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that Poland has been selected to host Europe’s first dedicated maintenance hub for the Patriot air defense system’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles, reports @JohnH105:
fdd.org/analysis/poland-sele…
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Got to hand it to Qatar: when it comes to buying influence and corrupting democracies, they’re impressively nonpartisan. Left, right, radical left, radical right — no ideology is off-limits, no political camp beyond reach. Their only loyalty: their own interests and the advancement of Islamism. Their greatest success is eroding public trust in our democratic institutions from every direction.
True, Iran is seeking to rebuild what Operation Epic Fury destroyed. But another round of attacks would hand the regime the one thing that keeps it alive: a war.
The better: hold the pressure, point any force at the regime’s enforcers
@miadmaleki
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As Moscow’s close partner in the war against Ukraine, Beijing is learning vast amounts from the battlefield and is likely running its own version of this exercise, studying the Black Sea from the defender’s side. The question is who learns faster—@MarkCMontgomery & Catarina Buchatskiy: washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Jordanian authorities are tightening the screws on the country’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
@AhmadA_Sharawi explains:
bit.ly/3W2VNS1
RT @therealBehnamBT: Well said indeed!
A quiet part out loud here though is that beleaguered democracies may also need to take cues from h…
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