Meet ‘The Butcher,’ Iran’s New President Ebrahim Raisi

}}} I read that passage that perhaps the Biden administration is admiring and even envious of Raisi.

As you note, there is the connection. Biden’s ilk can dream, can’t they?

Saddam averred a front-channel idea that he had WMD, supposedly to keep Iran from attacking Iraq (well, more than they already had).
Ambiguity didn’t work out too well for him.

(NOTE: not intended to open the Can of Worms about the Gulf War, please. Just an observation that history rhymes and no idea under the sun is new.)

Something comes to mind about willful blindness in your assumptions regarding Russian or Han culture. Regarding the importance of specific cities in the US, another opinion firmly stated without substantiation. Keep digging in that hole of grand “strategery.”

“it must come as a relief to know that your Oligarchy is different”

America’s Oligarchy is different because “he who makes the rules, rules the roost” and for all our oligarchy’s money and influence, they need the political power in Washington D.C. to make the rules the Oligarchy favors.

Given their ruthless pragmatism, I think it unlikely that either Putin or Xi are highly invested in Moscow or Beijing.

Putin grew up in what was then Leningrad, now once again St. Petersburg. Xi grew up in N.W. & S. China.

You’re American, is NYC of particular importance to most Americans? Whereas, Washington D.C. is to almost every American over 50… in its societal impact, no other city in America compares.

Yet the larger point in Israel not listing Moscow and Beijing is the likelihood that if credibly threatened, Putin and Xi might well preemptively attack Israel. None of the Western nations would do so out of humanitarian concerns and Islamists will not risk Mecca.

“US State Dept. spokesman: Iranian election was not ‘free and fair’ ”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/544510

Personally I much prefer his style to the tired Harry Jaffa Ben Shapiro Two Step.

Yep, Knish nails it.
Again.
(Though it would be nice if he weren’t so repetitive. Still…thanks for the link.)

Now who ever suspected that “Biden” could be such a clever thug?

OTOH, a lot of people may soon find out that history is a b***h…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/21/operation-barbarossa-the-most-barbarous-conflict-in-history/

File under: History? What’s that?