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Peter Harling retweeted
In Syria, mental health practitioners often lament how social stigma prevents Syrians from getting the help they need.
There's surely truth in this, especially in more conservative circles.
And yet, in our research, my @SynapsNetwork colleagues and I often saw the opposite 🧵
Peter Harling retweeted
Like its cover, "Syrians in the Shadow of War" is a collage.
It binds together 32 reports by our team @SynapsNetwork, drawing on over 3,000 interviews between 2017-24.
It orders them into six chapters, each tackling a question as relevant today as ever.
Here's a preview: 🧵
Trump's vision for securing Hormuz by escorting ships through the straits is typical of current geopolitics: It is more meme than plan.
The "armed convoy" trope is in fact just an echo of the "tanker war" of the 80s, rather than a realistic option for today. 🧵
Trump is not the only leader to memefy international affairs. Macron, for example, responded to 7 October with his own hallucination of a "global coalition to fight Hamas", borrowing at random from the anti-ISIS repertoire.
Trump is reaching another "Minnesota moment", this time in international affairs. Just as his domestic repression drive backfired for lack of planning, achievable goals, and internal discipline, this war is showing the limits of blusterous violence in lieu of strategy. 🧵
The US is slighting its traditional NATO and European partners in a similar way: bullying them into containing the fallout of a war that supplanted any old alliances with a fusional relation with Israel only. Trump's war on a pariah state is leaving him bizarrely isolated.