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Házy Senior Fellow . StratConsultant . Former DepAsst to Pres. Obama & NatSecAdvisor to VP Biden; former DASD Middle East.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 May 2017

    I don't tweet so often about Trump because I'm obsessed. Using his name is just the only way I can get him to keep reading my feed.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    "after watching NKorean TV, Trump talked about how positive the...female news anchor was toward Kim..He joked that even...Fox News was not as lavish in its praise as the state TV anchor...& that maybe she should get a job on U.S. television, instead."

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  3. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    This this this. I discussed this “discrimination problem” in this article awhile back:

    A low-yield nuke on a sub-launched ballistic missile is risky. It could tempt early use. And, even more troubling, Russia wouldn’t be able to distinguish the low yield upon launch (only impact), risking Russia launching their big nukes back on warning. …
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  4. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    In recent weeks: -Kim has met China's Xi (2x), ROK's Moon (2x), Russia's Lavrov (1x, likely Putin soon), received an Indian minister of state, Malaysia has agreed to reestablish ties, he's met 2018 ASEAN Chair Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong, etc. Maximum pressure is dead.

    Asian leaders signal greater engagement with North Korea via
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  5. 11 hours ago

    Trump’s relativism echoed his past comments about Putin (“There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?”), but Kim’s treatment of his own people puts him in a special category of bad guys. That’s NOT a reason to avoid talks. It IS a reason to avoid praise.

    Trump is Trump - desperate for praise. But the brutality of the dictator he defends is exceptional. Some 200,000 ppl tortured and used as slave labor in North Korean prison camps. Hard to believe it isn’t obvious, but the US president shouldn’t whitewash these…
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  6. 12 hours ago

    Trump’s new world (dis)order: Kim Jong-un & the authoritarian leaders of Russia, Turkey, the Philippines, & Saudi Arabia are America’s besties, while democratic leaders in Britain, France, Germany, & Canada are dishonest swindlers. Read

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  7. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    The surprise on Kim’s face...

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  8. Retweeted
    20 hours ago

    This is an outrage and a disgrace. Does Pompeo support these McCarthyite tactics? As long as they persist, they reflect on him.

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  9. 13 hours ago

    The Trump Show rolls on toward an increasingly turbulent future. Read via

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  10. 15 hours ago

    A low-yield nuke on a sub-launched ballistic missile is risky. It could tempt early use. And, even more troubling, Russia wouldn’t be able to distinguish the low yield upon launch (only impact), risking Russia launching their big nukes back on warning.

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  11. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    1. Fresh off the Singapore confab, there are reports that Trump’s next big foreign policy splash will be the release of an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan & Kushner is headed to the Mideast next week. This would be a terrible mistake on so many levels

    Scoop: Jared Kushner & Jason Greenblatt to visit Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia next week for talks on Trump's peace plan and Gaza crisis - my story on & …
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  12. 18 hours ago

    Not a single North Korean nuclear weapon has been destroyed to date. Not one. Yet our president seems to believe “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” This type of Jedi mind trick might work on Fox viewers, but the rest of us should expect actual results.

    Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!
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  13. 19 hours ago

    Smart thread by updating assessments of the Trump-Kim summit 👇

    To assess the Trump-Kim summit, examine what’s happened since Tuesday... worryingly, it provides more evidence for the “farce” interpretation of events. (1/10)
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  14. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    Tweet from April 5, 2016.

    It's 5p ET, which means Pres Obama must be meeting with some dictator somewhere. Are there any left?
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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 13

    .: “The President of the United States has just demonstrated the enormous value that crossing the nuclear threshold has for poor, repressive governments because they get the undivided attention & affection of the President of the United States.”

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  16. Jun 13

    The German foreign minister identifies three illiberal great powers that challenge international order: Russia, China,...and Trump’s America.

    This is part of a speech given by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas today. We are witnessing a seismic shift in world politics.
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    Jun 13

    Given how well Singapore Summit turned out for North Korea, Iranians may well think it might be better for them to ditch JPCOA, get nukes and then talk to Trump

    After Kim summit, some Iranians ask why Trump won’t talk to Iran too. Some note that Iran’s leaders are unwilling or that Trump is…
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  18. Jun 13

    After Kim summit, some Iranians ask why Trump won’t talk to Iran too. Some note that Iran’s leaders are unwilling or that Trump is asking for too much in return. Others say the Kim summit shows the US will only take Iran seriously after it gets nukes.

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  19. Jun 13

    All presidents grumble when allies don’t share burdens. What sets Trump apart in the post-WWII era is his view that alliances are NET NEGATIVES for US security, as his treatment of our closest allies at the G-7 & his willingness to end Korean mil exercises because of costs shows.

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  20. Jun 13

    Trump’s concessions to Kim Jong Un make South Korea & Japan very nervous. “It suggests...the president will cut deals with our adversaries involving the interests of our allies” without consulting them, said former Bush adviser Michael Green.

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    Jun 13

    Curious where Trump got his “war games” language. They are “military exercises”. Our adversaries call them war games. So it's strange that Trump chose this specific phrasing. Now everyone on TV is using our adversaries framing. These word choices matter a lot in foreign affairs.

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