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The ever interesting Warwick Powell -Material Reality Versus Zealotry in the Iran War

Posted by focus <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=focus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 5:09 am

https://warwickpowell.substack.com/p/the-escalation-trap-the-grand-bargain

Good article. Thanks nm

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 3:10 pm, in reply to "The ever interesting Warwick Powell -Material Reality Versus Zealotry in the Iran War"

Re: the reality based community

Posted by Sir Michael Mouse <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Sir+Michael+Mouse' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 7:04 pm, in reply to "Good article. Thanks nm"

Remins me of Raimondo who was always determined to remain in the 'reality based community.'

This crunch has been coming for a long time.

https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2004/10/20/delusions-of-empire/

Powell and the decline of English

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 8:57 pm, in reply to "The ever interesting Warwick Powell -Material Reality Versus Zealotry in the Iran War"

"I mobilise Fernand Braudel’s tripartite historical method and add a thermoeconomics edge: the event (the war’s immediate kinetics), the conjuncture (medium-term cycles of power transition), and the longue durée (deep structural and biophysical rhythms). Only by nesting the event within these deeper layers does the open question crystallise:...."

What ouanqueur can write this shite without blushing?

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Re: Powell and the decline of English

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 20, 2026, 10:23 pm, in reply to "Powell and the decline of English "

"What ouanqueur can write this shite without blushing?"

Is he French? When the words get in the way of the meaning the suspicion is that they are ersatz. The dude needs an editor...or a wife.
Luckily it improves to near-readable further down.

Re: Powell and the decline of English

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 21, 2026, 12:46 am, in reply to "Re: Powell and the decline of English "

"What ouanqueur can write this shite without blushing?"

You really are boring about English language K264. Basically it's the frills versus ideas. It just needs a tad of conscious understanding imo. But no, it's form versus substance (eyes roll). It could be worse.

The dude needs an editor...or a wife.

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 21, 2026, 9:16 am, in reply to "Re: Powell and the decline of English "

I wanted to ask him but there's no discussion section.

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Re: Powell and the decline of English

Posted by ficus <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=focus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on April 22, 2026, 3:48 am, in reply to "Powell and the decline of English "

Good spot, K. Feck! That's a sentence and a half and so convoluted it's probably unfolding and evolving as we speak

However, I'd still recommend Powell as in interviews he is excellent and well worth adding to the list of regular check ins

He brings something a bit different to the ex spooks, ex govt career insisers, former diplos and military eyes.

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