Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed that new elections would be held as his followers flocked to a mass prayer in the occupied parts of Baghdad’s Green Zone after 10 months of political deadlock.
Pity that the army chief of nuclear power could get in touch only with a junior US official, not NSA Jake Sullivan or CJCS Mark Milley. This, indirectly, exposes the fake conspiracy theory of Imran Khan. As I have stated repeatedly, Pakistan is not that important globally.
— Yousuf Nazar (@YousufNazar) July 30, 2022
China imports much of its protein from US/allies (150 million metric tonnes/annum of meat, soy, not easily smuggled) It can reduce fuel use + increase fuel imports from Ru/Kazakh .But today's Chinese would starve on a Mao diet & its vast rice stocks will not do. Empty threats https://t.co/oozfxTniQZ
— Edward N Luttwak (@ELuttwak) July 30, 2022
The Jerusalem Post
July 25, 2022
https://www.meforum.org/63409/iran-satellite-program-is-a-growing-threat
July 30, 2022In his latest report, Hal Brands envisions the dynamics of a potential conflict with Communist China. Not only will that confrontation pose greater risks of conventional and nuclear escalation, he finds, but it is also unlikely to be short or geographically limited to flash points like the Taiwan Strait. With these challenges in mind, he proposes that American strategists must consider six crucial priorities: "endurance, resilience, coercion, termination, exploitation, and continuation."
An increasingly brittle force due to scarcity in the defense budget that builds up and calcifies over time b/c of policymakers’ inability to tackle third rails & make truly hard choices (& cutting procurement is the opposite of “painful trade off”) —>https://t.co/rCm0n5WQVE https://t.co/jmycmuHVTs
— Mackenzie Eaglen (@MEaglen) July 26, 2022
Russia's state-owned atomic energy company, Rosatom, and the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy have begun work at the Dabaa nuclear power plant, Egypt’s first.
The broken Yamina party and the two-member Derech Eretz party are hoping that their merger will get them into the next Knesset.
What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?
| Emily Estelle | May 16, 2022.