Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics: US
Anthony Scaramucci argued that the Sykes-Picot Treaty, signed over 110 years ago, created tribal disputes whose consequences the Middle East still lives with today.
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Scaramucci's Lincoln-vs-Trump contrast crystallises the core dysfunction: a president whose inner circle reflects his self-image rather than challenging it. He reports watching Fox News all morning and finding hosts citing Wall Street Journal condemnations of the deal — not a trivial observation, since the right-wing media ecosystem rarely breaks from Trump this openly. His prediction: the deal won't even survive Trump's cable news habits, three days at most in the study off the Oval Office. The joke has real stakes. He also begins threading a historical argument about the Middle East — every negotiation for 110 years has publicly claimed to be about peace while actually being about oil, choke points, and basing rights.
Joel de la Garza noted that the CISO role is a relatively recent invention, with Steve Katz widely credited as the first-ever CISO.
Superficial adoption of electricity gave factories only 6% efficiency gains; fully redesigning factories around it delivered a 3x productivity improvement that powered 20th-century US growth.
Harold Ramis recounted that during Caddyshack filming, storms kept the cast cooped up in a Florida hotel for days, during which they partied and did drugs all day and night.
In the 1820s, China accounted for 25% of global economic output, making it the world's largest economic machine — a historical precedent for its current AI superpower ambitions.
66 Americans held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran were released after 444 days, within hours of Reagan's inauguration.
In the first round of the secret arms deal, 508 TOW missiles were transferred from Israel to Iran in exchange for hostage releases.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran across 8 separate shipments over just over a year.
Despite all the missile sales, only 3 of the 7 American hostages held by Lebanese terrorists were ultimately released.
The CIA supply plane that blew open the scandal was flying at only 2,500 feet in broad daylight when it was shot down on October 5, 1986.
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