Steven A. Cook

@stevenacook

Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East & Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. My own opinions. RTs not an endorsement.

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Joined November 2010
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    Oct 25

    Like I was saying the other day...

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Thank you!

    This paper by is not only informative & nuanced but also refreshingly realistic in describing the true nature of things; i.e. the US-Turkey alliance is over.
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  3. 17 hours ago

    I’ve just discovered that there is a program on TRT called “Bigger than Five” and that it is based in Washington DC. The irony is a little too much for me.

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    Dec 16

    Kandinsky was born in 1866 to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva & Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. Wassily Kandinsky, Lake Starnberg 1908 — Lake Starnberg is close to Munich, where Kandinsky lived & established himself as an artist.

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  5. 20 hours ago

    It’s like the other Washington, but with more rain.

    Q. What is the difference between Washington DC and a rainforest? A. In a rainforest, it does not rain all the time.
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  6. 20 hours ago

    And yet Turkish officials get upset when people question the alleged “strategic partnership.”

    Turkish foreign minister says “Pastor Brunson was a CIA agent.”
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  7. 20 hours ago

    Given the Turkish foreign minister’s penchant for making up stuff, you have to treat this with skepticism. Then again, this is the 3rd or 4th time this issue has come up during Pres Trump’s tenure.

    Trump working on extraditing foe, 's foreign minister claims via
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    Dec 15

    .: The mission in northeast remains unchanged. We continue operations, to include manning observation posts, and remain committed to ensuring the lasting defeat of ISIS. Any reports otherwise are false and designed to sow confusion & chaos.

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    Dec 15

    Suhela road linking Duhok to Sinjar has finally reopened, making it safer and easier for Yezidis to go to/from their ancestral home. Good news.

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  10. Dec 15

    What in the world?

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  11. Dec 15

    He would be better off running for Montgomery County (Maryland) Council...

    The exiled shah's son hasn't set foot in Iran in 40 years. He has no political organization, no deep base of support on the ground. That anyone in DC sees him as a savior suggests we've learned nothing since 2003.
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  12. Dec 15

    Trump administration tries to head off Turkish assault on Kurds in Syria

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  13. Dec 14

    One of the first pieces I ever published was in The Weekly Standard on . "A Country with No Politics"

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    Dec 14

    Six years ago today, these innocent lives were taken. Most of them, just babies. In my entire career, this is one of the stories that hurt the most to report. I’ve said many prayers for these families. 🙏🏽

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  15. Dec 14

    Looks overcast and cold.

    Jaws is open and it is gnarly. However, it IS Founders Day and very crowded, so be careful out there.
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  16. Dec 14

    "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

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  17. Dec 14

    Y'all should read this because it is excellent: "Restoring religion’s role in foreign and domestic policy in Erdogan’s " by

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    Dec 13

    Crowds chanting, "Vik-ta-tor!" "Vik-ta-tor!" Demanding free media, academic freedom, independent courts, an end to "slave law" undermining workers' rights… In short, they want the basic freedoms that Hungary PM Viktor Orbán destroyed. = Viktor + dictator

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    Hungary’s parliament right now
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  19. Dec 14

    Assad’s regime killed an American — and no one seems to care

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    Dec 14

    US government took in $206 billion in revenue in November 2018. It spent $411 billion in the same month. Those numbers aren't getting any better on the current path.

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    Dec 12

    New from , Ahmed Rizk, and me: Prayers Unanswered: Assessing the Impact of Egypt’s 2016 Church Construction Law "Ultimately, a unified houses of worship law will be essential to remove the discrimination inherent in the current system"

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