Ari Weitzman
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season, but yeah, we'll talk about the UN, I guess.
I'll quote our recent byline publisher, Karina Pacheco, who said in a Slack message, this whole general assembly could have been an email.
I think when it comes to the things that we're hearing out of the US,
Yeah, you can I would have never, but she did.
And I think you can I know exactly what she means because
What we're hearing is Trump saying we're gonna keep doing war and Iran saying we're gonna keep doing war, but we're actually not doing war because it's not officially a war.
And at some point I just
I think a lot of people.
I know I am, are sensing a s a kind of exasperation with what is the status quo right now.
Where in thirty, forty years ago, if a United if any military used their weapons against another country's civilian infrastructure, military installations, what have you, it would be considered an act of war.
But we can do lots of things that aren't technically acts of war now and Congress doesn't really have a say in it.
So the president gets to act and
Use the powers of the executive branch however he sees fit, and then other countries respond.
either economically outside of traditional ways that we'd expect them to.
We're seeing a lot of choking of waterways that are traditionally open internationally.
And then the UN is doing what?
Like it it feels like when we don't have technical wars and we don't have technical constraints to the things that are technically happening.
the things that the UN can do, which is already technically small, becomes a little more
show than it ever was.
So it's interesting, I think, that
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