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As promised, my latest essay “Keep the Kurds Out of the Iran War “ in @amconmag - The American Conservative.
Ji bîr nekin, “agir pêkeve, terr û hişk tev bişewitin.”
Nicholas S. Kass
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Nicholas S. Kass
@NicholasSKass
Fmr. acting Chairman, National intelligence Council, Office of the Director of National Intelligence/senior US Intel leader, NSC/White House, CIA, diplomat
- 1) The European Union is considering a plan for €800 bn in new defense spending, in part a response to strong encouragement from the Trump Administration in the US, which is calling for Europe to assume more of the financial and military burden in NATO. apnews.com/article/europe…
- 1) Reading today’s powerful column by @John_Kass about the damage to America abetted by the NY Times, the world’s leading journalistic institution, brings to mind a major epistemological challenge in the current global media landscape. That is the growing difficulty readers
- More evidence that America’s Kemalists are already considering a return to the insubordination of the first Trump term, disguised as discussion about what to do if faced with “controversial”orders. This must be stopped. Now. cnn.com/2024/11/08/pol…
- Replying to @mirandadevine@mirandadevine : we should first, do no harm. Too often well-meaning and other people in the West have intervened in the Middle East without understanding complex realities on the ground. As a result, we have inadvertently done untold damage to the ancient Christian communities
- What “60 Minutes” did here, and in 2020 when Leslie Stahl claimed the Hunter laptop could not be verified (despite reporting by @mirandadevine), is pure disinformation—a hallmark of Deep States the world over. Consider that next time Kamala or Walz calls for censorship.If it is true that 60 Minutes edited @KamalaHarris interview to make her look "better," I have one question as a 40-year Chicago newspaperman: When will @BillWhitakerCBS resign?
- Back in January 2024 I wrote an article for @theamgreatness asking whether voters would finally condemn the Deep State, or embrace it along with their own subjugation. amgreatness.com/2024/01/30/the… We now have the answer to that question. President Trump’s epic victory against the
- I heard people on Fox News and elsewhere yesterday suggesting that the Republic will be OK regardless of the outcome of today’s elections. I beg to differ. I’ve seen how this kind of thing can go, here and elsewhere. And I think you can it now too. In the midst of a
- Trump’s epic victory against the odds marked the greatest comeback in US political history. More importantly, it represents a thorough public repudiation of the Deep State, its operations, and its puppets and other emanations-including Harris, Pelosi, Biden, the Obamas, the
- Proud to sign this one. Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as DNI is crucial to the Trump agenda of obliterating the unaccountable Deep State and its operations and associated ideologies, including DEI and “neoconservatism.” The Deep State ethos, in the bureaucracy as in academiaDozens of former intel officials urge senators to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence trib.al/RF7nB5h
- Ponder this from @Amconmag, the reality the MSM want to ignore: data show “Sunday’s electoral earthquake was a response to voter concern about the danger that the Ukraine war will escalate into a European conflict.”
- From @John_Kass, as only he can: “And who is at the center of all this chaos? One man: Obama, The Silky himself, the Mozart of the American Deep State, the guy who cut his political teeth backstabbing rivals in the political sewers of Chicago.”
- The Post-Modern Coup d’Etat of 2024 against President Biden displayed yet again the political ruthlessness and brutality of the Obama-led Democrat/Deep State apparatus, its methods now familiar to Americans since the ongoing Anti-Trump Coup Process began in 2016. Implication:
- Yes👇: Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake
