Nicholas Grossman

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International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 15

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 10

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 12

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

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Susie Wiles: Gotta do something about gas prices Trump advisor: Let's lie about it. Wiles: Tried that Advisor: Say gas prices are going down? Wiles: But they're not Advisor: OK, berate media to say up is down. Wiles: Gas station signs Advisor: Have we tried asserting things that aren't true?

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Nicholas Grossman·8h

RUSSIA GETS: -Higher oil prices -Reduced US economic pressure -Bogged down US military -Air defense assets not sent to Ukraine US GETS: -Indefinite war in pursuit of undefined outcome -Weaker economy -Frayed international partnerships -Combat deaths

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Nicholas Grossman·9h

Evidence piling up that the Trump regime thought Iran is Venezuela, and the Maduro operation—which needed some luck to go as smoothly as it did, and didn’t actually advance US national interest or improve anything for Venezuelans—was easily repeatable in the Middle East. This was not very smart.

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Nicholas Grossman·10h

Our warfighters at the Department of War won't be held back by political correctness saying their warmaking activities are "war."

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Nicholas Grossman·11h

"Unconditional surrender" is what the Union got from the Confederacy, what Putin demands from Ukraine, and what Trump thought he got from Venezuela, so that's what the US is demanding now from Iran. It sounds tough on TV, you see.

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Nicholas Grossman·11h

Thankfully American voters rescued the country from a low unemployment, rising real wages, declining inflation economic nightmare.

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Nicholas Grossman·11h

You know how American intelligence was pretty excited to do to the USSR in Afghanistan what Soviet intelligence did to the US in Vietnam?

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Nicholas Grossman·12h

How many economic reports can come in under expectations before the expectors adjust their expecting?

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Nicholas Grossman·23h

Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.

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Nicholas Grossman·23h

They got lucky in Venezuela. There was tactical skill too, of course, but if the rest of the regime didn’t want to play ball, if Maduro dodged it, if a lucky shot or accident killed US troops, etc. Trump and Co. were really feeling themselves after Venezuela, and thought Iran would be easy too.

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