The negative consequences of Trump’s rash decision making may just be starting. https://t.co/O22QedaeYa— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) January 5, 2020
This is the popular unity among Iranian that the president of the US made it. https://t.co/kVPUq362Gp— Saeid Jafari (@jafariysaeid) January 5, 2020
Process? Meetings?I wonder: Did this NSC process make clear to @realDonaldTrump that regime change in Iran was highly unlikely? That eco sanctions would trigger military responses? That killing Suleimani would lead to an open-ended conflict forcing the US to return its strategic focus to MidEast?— Richard N. Haass (@RichardHaass) January 4, 2020
“Gary Cohn [said] in an email: ‘It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.’”https://t.co/Awl2Xo3Vzd— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 5, 2020
“The New York Times reported that National Security Council members had been instructed to keep policy papers to a single page and include lots of graphics and maps.”https://t.co/Awl2Xo3Vzd— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 5, 2020
Congratulations, Mr. President, with one reckless move, you have ceded Iraq to Iran, put our soldiers and our allies at greater risk, given ISIS a reprieve, united a divided Iran which will now revive its nuclear weapons program. Well done, Sir.— Richard Stengel (@stengel) January 5, 2020
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US military announced its suspending anti-ISIS operations in Iraq. Iraq parliament requests govt to kick out US forces. Massive protests in Iran. North Korea says it will show off new military technology soon. All have knock-on effects. More danger. More instability.— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) January 5, 2020
Iraqi parliament calling for US troops to leave, exactly what Soleimani wanted. But it’s not over yet. Now a constitutional battle as current Iraqi prime minister had already submitted his resignation, heading a caretaker gov’t. So – military crisis and now political crisis too.— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) January 5, 2020
Yeah, but: "imminent"!The Iraqi prime minister seems to be suggesting that the US essentially lured Soleimani into a peace mediation and then used that shuttle diplomacy to assassinate him on Iraqi soil. https://t.co/FXanCvxXx2— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 5, 2020
Feel safer yet?1. This is a big deal: The US-led Coalition has suspended operations against ISIS in Iraq, as resources are reassigned to protect American facilities and personnel: pic.twitter.com/LLT9XKUyJd— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) January 5, 2020
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