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Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow in Middle East Programs and Director, Future of DHS Project.
Former State Department Senior Advisor, former DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Policy.
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8/8 So the new Syrian government’s choice to have its currency printed in the UAE and Germany, not Russia, is a sign it trusts those governments and their expertise in secure printing to give Syria’s economy a strong foundation. This really is a big deal.
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7/8 Even though there are always security measures in place to prevent unauthorized print runs, having another country print your currency is a sign of trust. The danger is that the country doing the printing could, if it wanted to, destabilize your economy.
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6/8 Millions of Iraqis owe a great debt to Sinan al-Shabibi, first post-liberation head of the Iraqi Central Bank, who led efforts to stabilize Iraq’s currency.
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5/8 When I led State Dept. postwar planning on Iraq, we brought in the US Treasury’s expertise on currency security to help stabilize Iraq’s currency. This was a successful part of the postwar Iraq efforts.
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4/8 Problems like this are especially serious when a country tries to leave dictatorship by a brutal family regime and move forward, as Iraq had to do in 2003.
www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3966065
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3/8 Counterfeiting on a large scale is both an economic danger and a national security threat. During WW2, the German “Operation Bernhard” tried (unsuccessfully) to use counterfeit British currency to destabilize Britain and fund German covert action.
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2/8 The greatest danger to currency is counterfeiting. In the U.S., the Secret Service investigates counterfeiting. This is why the Secret Service started in the Treasury Department in 1865. Only later did it protect the President. It moved to DHS in 2003.
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Seems to be at odds with this, would you agree:
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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Which they will pass on to those moviegoers. If the choice is between 2 tickets for a $10 movie or a $20 movie, which would you go to? So the amount of revenues collected will be low. BUT WHEN FOREIGN MOVIE GOERS HAVE TO PAY DOUBLE, from retaliatory tariffs, guess what will happen to American films.
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Hollywood has its challenges (I briefly worked in entertainment law in the summer of 1978 and had a few encounters with it later, and have followed the industry ever since). But this is why this will not work: Tariffs on foreign movies will impose taxes on distributors....
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Take a look at this table:
www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/?...
Of the top 14 FOREIGN box office movies in 2025, 12 were made in the United States.
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In case you had forgotten ...
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To be sure, governors and chiefs of police have responsibility for disaster recovery—they are also the officials the public will blame (or credit) depending on what happens. This is why the layoffs and cuts at FEMA could be a political flashpoint in the 2026 elections.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/p...
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The 13 names are a mixture of 4 actual emergency management experts, 7 Republican political appointees or elected officials, 1 insurance company executive, and 1 nonpartisan elected official who everyone knows is a Democrat (Tampa mayor Jane Castor).
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Interesting to note: According to the DHS press release, the Council is “a bipartisan group tasked with reforming and streamlining the nation’s emergency management and disaster response system.” No mention of eliminating FEMA.
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Steve Witkoff knows the President’s mind on this better than almost anyone, and Michael Anton, who will lead the technical talks with other experts from the Departments of Energy and the Treasury, is fully committed to the President’s agenda. There will need to be give and take to reach a deal.
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It appears they were listening to the March 20 rollout of our recommendations for Syria strategy. Watch this:
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SecDef Hegseth’s visit yesterday and the agreements he and Panamanian leaders signed will allow the Panama Canal to remain open for shipping to U.S. and other shippers. It is vital to make sure that China could not disrupt the Canal’s operations by cyberattacks, sabotage, or any other means.
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The marketing people at Kraft Heinz are having a field day.
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I said that Tehran needs to appreciate that President Trump is both serious about wanting to negotiate a deal to end Iran's nuclear program, but is also prepared to use military force if negotiations are unsuccessful.
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And if Iran changed its policy of advocating for Israel's destruction, and instead supported a two-state solution like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, and a host of other countries, the region would take a major step towards peace.
To which the interviewer rightly said, "Inshallah."