Joseph Bahout باحوط

@jobahout

Scholar (non-resident) (Tweets=personal view). MidEast Politics as a job & a hobby. But not only ME, & not only politics :). PS: I block trolls.

Paris, France
Joined June 2009
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    3 hours ago

    Toujours aussi bouleversant, toujours aussi magnifique.

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    "Entre ici, Jean Moulin, avec ton terrible cortège" 19 décembre 1964 : André Malraux prononce l'hommage de la Nation à Jean Moulin ⤵️
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  2. 54 minutes ago

    👇👌🏻

    Putin’s plan for US policy in Syria is going really well.
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  3. 1 hour ago

    This sounds like an (early) confirmation... soon out of ?

    We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Thread; early thoughts on a possible withdrawal from (northeast) 👇

    Early to say it’s done; but it was rather easy to forecast... in :
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  5. 2 hours ago

    On specifically, a vacuum potentially means: • Turkey & regime on collision course in the North-East. • orphaned; probably running towards regime for “protection”. • emerges as arbiter of all, gaining additional card. • regime consolidated.

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  6. 2 hours ago

    • The latter ( strategy) will then have to be redesigned now: Focus on ? On the ? Or on Iran itself?! • Remains : a withdrawal means the collapse of the “Jeffrey Package”; what will replace it?! • , , and.. are now free-handed there.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    • If this proves something again, it is that the never designed a real strategy; neither under , not under . During both periods, all there was was a “Syria paragraph within an ‘strategy’ (itself remaining to be defined!)”...

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  8. 2 hours ago

    • was never really convinced about this presence, only supported by . • Defense establishment was split about it, at least on operational levels (size, scope of AUMF, etc.). • Political goals were anyway incoherent: , , or political process?!

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  9. 2 hours ago

    Early to say it’s done; but it was rather easy to forecast... in :

    BREAKING
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    15 hours ago

    BREAKING: State Department approves a possible sale to Turkey of Patriot missiles at an estimated cost of $3.5B. Presumably this would be in place of the Russian S-400 missile system - a huge breakthrough for US-Turkey relations.

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  11. 15 hours ago

    Congrats dear ⁦⁩! And good luck!

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    16 hours ago

    All states prepare military options. Russia just happens to execute hers.

    “Russia has been preparing various options for military operations in Ukraine, including an incursion into Kherson Oblast to seize the canal that feeds Crimea with water from the Dnieper River,” in my latest
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    21 hours ago

    ...« car arrivent les temps redoutables d'une immense regression ». Les vœux sombres d’Edgar Morin.

    voeux 2019 Mon souhait chers frères et soeurs Que vous trouviez paix et douceur En formant oasis aimables…
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  14. 17 hours ago

    And thank you dear Christina for sharing this!

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    Syrian & Lebanese artists deconstructing the beloved Levantine Dabke 💃🏻 tonight at Grand Factory in . Thank you for a very cool event !
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  15. 21 hours ago

    حول زيارة ل ال ، و عمل لإعادة تأهيل .

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    23 hours ago

    Bellingcat and Newsy debunk the sustained Russian disinformation campaign against the White Helmets

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    Dec 17

    1/ Important piece on 's detention via that makes several key points:

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    Dec 18

    Two reports on declining Palestinian confidence in 2-state solution, evolution towards...something else. &

    A majority of 63% of Palestinians believes that the two-state solution is no longer practical or feasible due to the expansion of Israeli settlements while 35% believe that the solution remains practical:
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  19. Dec 18

    Interesting tweet coming from the heart of the .

    Saudi Arabia a country that sent a hit squad to murder a resident of the U.S. in a third country, wants the Senate to not interfere in their “internal affairs”.
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  20. Dec 18

    Tellement vrai... Sans compter la scandaleuse dégradation de multiples autres services publics dans un pays dont les infrastructures ont bien vieilli... (Ratp, routes périphériques, aéroports, etc...).

    «Promettre 100 euros de plus est plus facile apparemment que d’empêcher des administrations d’emmerder les Français toute la journée !»
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