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None of this was on my radar, it was done It’s Chuck Lane column on the country is very interesting. An explanation of why Guyana is so big zero on the radar of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Maduro has long been vocal about attacking and subjugating the Essequibo region, where Venezuela is sleeping but has long been issuing propaganda. (It was carved by the British in 1899.) Many experts say that Maduro will not attack, but as Chuck said, the experts have been wrong many times with sudden attacks.
So what could push Venezuela to actually attack? Chuck wrote: “It’s a surprisingly long list.”
The above – poco military, mucho oil – and many other reasons mentioned by Chuck, but perhaps the most compelling is related to what is happening at home in Venezuela. He wrote that an attack would distract from the decline of Maduro’s popularity and all called for a free election to replace him, in the same way as the invasion of Argentina in 1982 of the Falkland Islands (or Las Malvinas, depending on your druthers) relieve, at least temporarily, resistance. – destroy the kingdom.
But, maybe Venezuela will not be attacked; Chuck’s money stays on top of the experts. But if a story is made for Essequibo, don’t say he didn’t warn you.
Find: Let’s check on a war of aggression that is actually happening: In Ukraine, Lee Hockstader wrote, the risk is not the same with Russia. The defeat.
Comparisons to September 11, 2001, came quickly after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, with American observers doing a number-by-number to determine the exact same height. Now, after several months, Hugh Hewitt return to the comparison to examine how 10/7 changed Israel to 9/11 by the United States.
“The immediate and obvious conclusion,” writes Hugh, “is a renewal of the old creed: No more.” That means the decision to completely eliminate the Islamist threat, he said, as well as a new push to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The events of October 7 are a “fundamental crisis” for Jews outside Israel, also write Celeste Marcus, managing editor of Washington Liberties magazine. But unlike other incidents – he mentioned the first breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian peace – this happened in the age of cell phones, when people can see the horrors caused by the actions of both sides. This crisis, he wrote, “is different from what bound and flashed past generations.”
It is doubly shameful, he said, that American progressives (and liberal Zionists) have failed to advocate for a two-state solution, the only way to permanent peace.
Of course, the recent backlash against the American left hasn’t helped matters. “Too many of our political allies have recently shown that they value Jewish lives over others,” Marcus wrote.
George Will watched with dismay as antisemitic progressives — “pure cretins,” he wrote — preached or cheered Hamas in town squares and on college campuses. He can only conclude that these opponents are “too educated to understand the terrible pedigree of their ambition.”
Have these people not, in fact, seen themselves in the terrible things that Hamas has done? George advises college screening of Israel-produced video of Hamas massacre; that, he wrote, is the education these progressives need.
Find: President Biden’s Gaza policy is America’s biggest foreign policy failure, Perry Bacon written.
From Karen Tumulty’s analysis of the increase in support of the former president in the state, which in a few weeks will host the first campaign of the 2024 GOP primary season.
Karen interviews prominent Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who after forty years of magic is hardly surprising; he noted that Trump’s unprecedented display — now cracking 50 percent widely — “was done right,” as Karen wrote.
Karen walks us through some of the times Iowa’s performance didn’t match up with (1) first-ballot or (2) final success. But he warned that, with this level of initial support, Trump is likely to come out of the state with “the power that can be unstoppable.”
Find: News releases in Spanish Enrique Acevedo has come under criticism for framing Trump in an hour-long interview. He explained why his questions were “quiet”.
- The Hunter Biden charge is good, the Board of Directors written. President Biden’s investigation is not. (Jim Geraghty As Republicans say best, it’s not punishing but just letting the president’s problems “keep raining, raining, raining.”)
- Ruth Mark says Texas just revealed that its legalized abortion exemption for medical emergencies was a complete lie.
- Twenty-three years ago, Al Gore saved the country, writes former Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens. We can use some of that power today.
It’s a goodbye. A haiku. The … Goodbye-Ku.
Black gold was found abroad
Add to that the drop in voting numbers
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