This is brilliantly written –with a lucid analysis and a call to action—grounded in unwavering commitment, sustained engagement and timely, disciplined coordinated responses— to the coalition of liberal democracies. As the anchor of this endeavor, we, the United States need to re-train ourselves to think and plan long-term, and prepare to play the long game--- things at which we used to be very good.
Let’s go back to 2020 when Cheeto after losing the election pulled all the stops including a ransacking of the Capitol building during the J6 insurrection when Cheeto called on his hoodlums to interfere with the certification of the election
As all the turmoil was being churned now disbarred Guliani and his Nazi cohort of lawyers filed and lost 61 lawsuits in court attempting to push Cheeto’s Big Lie agenda
Well it’s now 2025 and Cheeto is trying to militarize the streets of Democratic cities, first Los Angeles, then Portland, and now Chicago But the federal courts as they did in 2020 have turned the stupidity of the attempt to militarize our cities into what could only be termed sham legalese
So Cheeto being the bully he is, thinks that he can get away his military junta attempt and as JB Pritzker(governor of Illinois) has said that bringing the military is about fear and intimidation of the electorate in the runup to the 2026 midtems Pritzker also suggested on Maddow yesterday that he believes that the Nazi regime will confiscate voting machines
Changing our US approach to foreign policy requires a shift away from our cultirual inclination towards authoritarianism.
Overcoming US authoritarianism requires an about-face in how we handle internal as well as foreign affairs, as Ms. Alasrar makes clear. That means it requires the citizens of the United States to take a totally different view of how other people should be treated. We need to be less vindictive, and more accepting.
Our problems today stem from our culture's autocratic, fascistic tendencies that have been with us since our founding, starting iwth slavery. We need to learn to accept other people as actual people, rather than dividing everyone into either a friend (who thinks exactly as you do) or an enemy (who thinks differently on a scale ranging from just a little to a 180 degree shift). We need to learn to value one another not despite our differences but because of them.
That will not happen by winning an election. It will happen as we as individuals make a decision that collaboration is better for us than competition.
Not that this derails the whole article, but how was Saudi Arabia Russia's largest oil consumer? Isn't Saudi Arabia the largest oil producer on the planet?
The first, a growing Messianic religious movement, now a decisive presence in the government, sees the Oct. 7 massacre of an estimated 1,200 people as a “miraculous moment that forced the Jewish nation to take another step toward redemption,” as Daniella Weiss, a prominent leader of the settler movement, put it to me.
That lofty goal has proved unattainable in a Jewish state where two million citizens, or 20 percent of the population, are Arab or Palestinian. But many still believe that abandoning the struggle for its ideals would betray Israel’s essential promise.
“Enough of blood and tears. Enough,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel declared on the White House lawn 32 years ago in the time of hope that was the close of the 20th Century. But this century’s thirst for blood has so far proved unquenchable.
And, yes, Hamas’ thirst for blood is bottomless. You can watch them torture & kill Gazans here. Hamaskillsgaza.com
Never understood why the protesters were protesting Israel, when Hamas was holding hostages and using Gazans as human shields (martyrs for jihad). Hamas continues to kill and torture Gazans every day, even with the ceasefire.
Trumpism Netanyahuism, Putinism, Hitlerism; Sodom and Gomorrah - Not Being Hospitable to Strangers Within
Violation of Hospitality Rules: The demand was a direct violation of ancient Middle Eastern laws of hospitality, which required protecting guests, even at the cost of one's own life or the lives of one's family.
Inhospitality Within and Divine Judgment Oh! It's Real
Excellent analysis echoing both Garry and Anne Applebaum. It is so difficult to see how we can develop a hawkish yet liberal foreign policy and continue to fight for a true democratic state at home at the same time. Most lefties I know are woefully doveish just not fully grasping the autocratic web being spun and the right wingers are hawkish for all the wrong reasons while trying to dismantle democracy at home.
Netanyahu allowed this to happen as it was his get out of jail card - they’d been warned of imminent attack. It took 6 hrs to respond in a country the size of New Jersey where every adult has military training! He wanted a war and he wanted America involved. In particular he/they were counting on trump getting in who would have a vested interest $$ in decimating Gaza. In the first week or so Jared Kushner is in record in a video tapped interview that the best thing would be beachfront condos in Gaza
This is brilliantly written –with a lucid analysis and a call to action—grounded in unwavering commitment, sustained engagement and timely, disciplined coordinated responses— to the coalition of liberal democracies. As the anchor of this endeavor, we, the United States need to re-train ourselves to think and plan long-term, and prepare to play the long game--- things at which we used to be very good.
Cheeto Didn’t Learn His Lesson In 2021
Let’s go back to 2020 when Cheeto after losing the election pulled all the stops including a ransacking of the Capitol building during the J6 insurrection when Cheeto called on his hoodlums to interfere with the certification of the election
As all the turmoil was being churned now disbarred Guliani and his Nazi cohort of lawyers filed and lost 61 lawsuits in court attempting to push Cheeto’s Big Lie agenda
Well it’s now 2025 and Cheeto is trying to militarize the streets of Democratic cities, first Los Angeles, then Portland, and now Chicago But the federal courts as they did in 2020 have turned the stupidity of the attempt to militarize our cities into what could only be termed sham legalese
So Cheeto being the bully he is, thinks that he can get away his military junta attempt and as JB Pritzker(governor of Illinois) has said that bringing the military is about fear and intimidation of the electorate in the runup to the 2026 midtems Pritzker also suggested on Maddow yesterday that he believes that the Nazi regime will confiscate voting machines
Love the energy here but what does this have to do with the article?
nothing
Changing our US approach to foreign policy requires a shift away from our cultirual inclination towards authoritarianism.
Overcoming US authoritarianism requires an about-face in how we handle internal as well as foreign affairs, as Ms. Alasrar makes clear. That means it requires the citizens of the United States to take a totally different view of how other people should be treated. We need to be less vindictive, and more accepting.
Our problems today stem from our culture's autocratic, fascistic tendencies that have been with us since our founding, starting iwth slavery. We need to learn to accept other people as actual people, rather than dividing everyone into either a friend (who thinks exactly as you do) or an enemy (who thinks differently on a scale ranging from just a little to a 180 degree shift). We need to learn to value one another not despite our differences but because of them.
That will not happen by winning an election. It will happen as we as individuals make a decision that collaboration is better for us than competition.
Not that this derails the whole article, but how was Saudi Arabia Russia's largest oil consumer? Isn't Saudi Arabia the largest oil producer on the planet?
The first, a growing Messianic religious movement, now a decisive presence in the government, sees the Oct. 7 massacre of an estimated 1,200 people as a “miraculous moment that forced the Jewish nation to take another step toward redemption,” as Daniella Weiss, a prominent leader of the settler movement, put it to me.
That lofty goal has proved unattainable in a Jewish state where two million citizens, or 20 percent of the population, are Arab or Palestinian. But many still believe that abandoning the struggle for its ideals would betray Israel’s essential promise.
“Enough of blood and tears. Enough,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel declared on the White House lawn 32 years ago in the time of hope that was the close of the 20th Century. But this century’s thirst for blood has so far proved unquenchable.
Palestinians are Arabs. Just so you know.
And, yes, Hamas’ thirst for blood is bottomless. You can watch them torture & kill Gazans here. Hamaskillsgaza.com
Never understood why the protesters were protesting Israel, when Hamas was holding hostages and using Gazans as human shields (martyrs for jihad). Hamas continues to kill and torture Gazans every day, even with the ceasefire.
Trumpism Netanyahuism, Putinism, Hitlerism; Sodom and Gomorrah - Not Being Hospitable to Strangers Within
Violation of Hospitality Rules: The demand was a direct violation of ancient Middle Eastern laws of hospitality, which required protecting guests, even at the cost of one's own life or the lives of one's family.
Inhospitality Within and Divine Judgment Oh! It's Real
Excellent analysis echoing both Garry and Anne Applebaum. It is so difficult to see how we can develop a hawkish yet liberal foreign policy and continue to fight for a true democratic state at home at the same time. Most lefties I know are woefully doveish just not fully grasping the autocratic web being spun and the right wingers are hawkish for all the wrong reasons while trying to dismantle democracy at home.
Netanyahu allowed this to happen as it was his get out of jail card - they’d been warned of imminent attack. It took 6 hrs to respond in a country the size of New Jersey where every adult has military training! He wanted a war and he wanted America involved. In particular he/they were counting on trump getting in who would have a vested interest $$ in decimating Gaza. In the first week or so Jared Kushner is in record in a video tapped interview that the best thing would be beachfront condos in Gaza