stephanietwilliams.bsky.social
Global nomad. Former U.S. and UN diplomat, served in Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait & Pakistan. Grew up in India, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
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Congratulations and so well deserved - thank you to Declan and the NYT staff for shedding light on the slaughter and enormous human suffering in Sudan, and highlighting the regional actors who have been cynically fueling the conflict. Hope it leads to some accountability.
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Of course. The defenestration of our diplomatic corps, part of the overall purging of expertise in the federal government, is right out of the dictator’s playbook. The moral laissez faire of his acolytes, refraining from registering any dissent in the face of these radical decisions, is abhorrent.
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Thank you Senator Van Hollen for making Maryland proud with your determined defense of the rule of law and your beautiful humanity!
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Horrifying, immoral, abhorrent. The actions of a thuggish police state.
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A malignant narcissist who shows remarkably little human interest in his followers. Behind the relentless propaganda, his pathetic grievances and his non-stop bullshit, there is just a great emptiness, a void in the place of an actual human capable of anything approaching empathy.
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Positively Qaddafiesque!
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Ackman sold his soul. Let him go down in history as one of Trump’s worst opportunistic and greedy handmaidens.
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Pretty clear he does not have “knowledgeable advisors” - it’s an idiocracy staffed by incompetent clowns, cynical opportunists and soulless sycophants.
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The cruelty is the point. They are all performing for one absolutely soulless man.
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Empty suits. No values, no principles, only profit.
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Thank you, Senator, for speaking up and on behalf of so many of us. Your moral courage, eloquence, energy and passion have captured our hearts and are a welcome tonic in these bleak times. More of this is needed from Democrats.
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A veritable tour de force. Such energy and passion!
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Never underestimate the ability of these chuckleheads to reach new depths of abject stupidity.
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Ossoff really is good. More of this energy and precision needed from the Dems!
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Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by (abject) stupidity. And in this case lethal incompetence. Jeff Goldberg may have quietly left the group but the foreign intelligence services monitoring the discussion no doubt remained in the shadows. Unbelievable.
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Link for the U.S. edition can be found here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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The book’s forward was written by Ghassan Salamé and the gorgeous cover photo is the work of the talented Libyan photographer Hiba Shalabi. All of my personal proceeds will go towards charity (must be organizations based in the UK). 6/7
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I offer ideas on how to break Libya’s cycle of division and dysfunction to meet the longstanding aspirations of the Libyan people to live in peace and dignity. Finally, I discuss the future of peacemaking given the current breakdown in the international order. 5/7
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..how we built the Berlin Process & navigated through conflict and COVID to broker the October 2020 ceasefire agreement & the subsequent political agreement. I lay out the pernicious effect of new media on peacemaking & how disinformation and hate speech have exacerbated Libya’s fragmentation. 4/7
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I analyze the underlying drivers of the Libyan conflict, as well as the motivations of the international actors and the various Libyan protagonists. I take the reader through General Haftar’s attempted coup d’état in April 2019 and the bloody war that it spawned,...3/7
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This account offers my first-hand examination of post-Qaddafi Libya, using concrete examples from my experience in the country as a senior UN mediator and former US diplomat. 2/7
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Thank you for this excellent analysis. Just as demolishing USAID (a soft target) was the test case for the rest of the government so is Khalil/Columbia the test case for a sweeping crackdown on the first amendment, academic independence and freedom of assembly. Authoritarian playbook in action.
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We are truly living in the dumbest of times with some of the dumbest people in charge. It would be amusing if it all wasn’t so terribly frightening.