Nothing I have ever studied or taught has prepared me for this phase. When a sitting U.S. president publicly threatens a civilian capital with annihilation on social media, turning genocidal language into official communication

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Amal Saad

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Nothing I have ever studied or taught has prepared me for this phase. When a sitting U.S. president publicly threatens a civilian capital with annihilation on social media, turning genocidal language into official communication, IR’s clean theories of calibrated violence and political science’s predictive models collapse. This isn’t strategy — it’s theatre on the brink of mass death, an intent to destroy not just a state but a nation. And our theories still cling to the fiction of rational actors.

11:17 AM · Jun 17, 2025

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