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Thank you for your extremely good-faith criticism. I will give it the attention it deserves.
Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
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Dr. Jeffrey Lewis
@ArmsControlWonk
Distinguished Scholar of Global Security at @middlebury, staff at @fpri & @JamesMartinCNS, host of the @ACWpodcast, member @theNASEM CISAC, ex-ISAB at @StateDep
- One of my favorite bits of trivia is that Trump doesn’t grasp the concept of “time zones.”
- Replying to @ArmsControlWonkPS: To be clear -- we need to talk to North Korea. But Kim is not inviting Trump so that he can surrender North Korea's weapons. Kim is inviting Trump to demonstrate that his investment in nuclear and missile capabilities has forced the United States to treat him as an equal.
- An ATACMs transfer to Ukraine seems like a proportionate response to Russian missile strikes on civilian infrastructure. Again, if Russia objects to the use of such systems, I invite Moscow to set a positive example by ending its own extensive use of such missiles.
- North Korea has been seeking a summit with an American president for more than twenty years. It has literally been a top foreign policy goal of Pyongyang since Kim Jong Il invited Bill Clinton. (1/3)
- Russia literally exports cruise missiles disguised as shipping containers.
Replying to @berlin_bridgeThe perfidy shown by Ukraine now makes commercial container ships and truckers open targets. - Your reminder that all ballistic missiles travel at hypersonic speeds.BREAKING: 🇹🇷 Türkiye officially unveils a hypersonic ballistic missile called Tayfun Block-4 today.
00:00 - The "Hilary sold our uranium to Russia" conspiracy theory is, at least, a useful way to sort colleagues into sane and insane.
- This is not fucking heartwarming.“His first deployment was over 15 years ago. I was only ten years old. Now we're over here serving together. It seems almost surreal.” ngpa.us/6771 @Missouri_NG
- This isn't that complicated, people. There is a fire and a secondary explosion. There are literally none of the phenomena one sees with a nuclear explosion.
- Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
- According @googlemaps, there is a "traffic jam" at 3:15 in the morning on the road from Belgorod, Russia to the Ukrainian border. It starts *exactly* where we saw a Russian formation of armor and IFV/APCs show up yesterday. Someone's on the move.
- You ordered a not-yet-completed paper study, you damned fool.My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before....
