Eric Brewer
@BrewerEricM
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Deputy VP @NTI_WMD. Previously NSC Director for Counterproliferation, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for WMD. Personal account/views my own.
Washington, DC
Joined June 2016
Some preliminary thoughts on the relationship between Iran’s nuclear program (the “nuclear crisis”) and the Israel-Hamas war and related dynamics (the “regional crisis”). 🧵 It would be too much of a stretch to say the current war is unfolding under the “nuclear shadow”…1/
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With Iran inching closer to a bomb and the international community having roughly six months to avoid a real crisis, incoherence in Iran policy is incredibly dangerous.
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“Trump will also direct his U.N. ambassador to work with allies to ‘complete the snapback of international sanctions and restrictions on Iran,’ the official said” Trump to reimpose 'maximum pressure' on Iran, aims to drive oil exports to zero | Reuters
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RT @AliRogin: USAID personnel getting an email that HQ at the Ronald Reagan is closed today. They’ve already taken down all the pictures an…
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RT @yashar: Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia and the Deputy Chair of the Security Council, endorses Elon Musk’s plans for US…
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RT @RushDoshi: The new acting Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the…
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“The acting deputy attorney general…has ordered the acting director of the FBI to compile a list of all current and former FBI employees who were assigned "at any time" to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack investigation for review”
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RT @nickschifrin: .@realDonaldTrump: "Why should we be subsidizing Canada?..." Q: Is there a concession you're looking for, sir? A: @realDo…
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RT @Dimi: Read my #LunchWithTheFT interview with #JakeSullivan. Over Indian curries, we talk about everything from China, Taiwan, AI, Ukrai…
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These “loyalty tests” are a terrible idea and will create precisely the (non-existent) problem they are purportedly trying to solve - a politicized civil service.
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And b) that he (unprompted) draws on the cost of nuclear weapons and their destructive potential as a reason for disarmament (not exactly in line with conventional R thinking on these issues, to put it mildly). 2/2
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RT @laurnorman: There was indeed supposed to be another U.S.-Iran indirect meeting around Oct 7 but the idea that it was to revive the JCPO…
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RT @kaitlancollins: Trump spoke to the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, marking his first known conversation with a foreign leader s…
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Defenders of Trump’s Iran policy have long argued that Iran’s nuclear program accelerated more under Biden than Trump because Iran was deterred (ie, scared about the US response) under the latter but not the former. We’re about to test that theory.
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It deeply saddens and worries me that, instead, we’ve had the opposite. This outcome almost certainly lays the groundwork for similar political violence in the future. 2/2
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RT @RushDoshi: Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President T…
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