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Aaron Bastani

@AaronBastani

Co-Founder @novaramedia. Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.

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The complete obsession with medium range missiles since early 2000s just seemed vaguely eccentric a while back but now it looks really, really smart. Clearly intelligent people are thinking about these things but ‘mad mullahs are in charge’ etc

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Iranian strategy since 1980s is interesting if nothing else. Massive emphasis on proxies & non state actors, assymetric warfare, short/medium range missiles & drones.

It might be useful for a British audience to learn about this stuff!? Instead we get ‘mad mullahs’ nonsense.

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This is zapping credibility of West...everywhere. 80 years of claiming to uphold human rights and rule of law (not that this always happened of course) could go up in smoke in months.

What is our strategy in W Asia? Just randomly bomb whoever the Americans randomly bomb?

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Times of Israel/Zman Yisrael reporting Israel is in negotiations to deport Gazans en masse to Congo.

They are calling what would be ethnic cleansing 'humanitarian emigration'.

Governments across Europe & North America are tacitly supporting this.

timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

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The next government needs to think like a developing country. Cheap energy, cheap housing, cheap transport.

‘Just’ getting that right is massive.

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As a young adult in 1997, the most common living arrangement was being in a couple with children. Today the most common is... living with your parents

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And a GP would do home visits on a weekend.

Apologies to all the 16 year old Blair STANs but the 1990s were good.

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Murderous terrorism maiming innocents. But it will be celebrated by a lot of people on here because it’s Iranians. At least 103 dead. Rest in peace. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

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I’ve never understood this argument. If people vote for them then, in a democracy, those people deserve representation, yes.

Perfectly sensible to have a threshold which must be crossed, like 5%.

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