Mateo Nelson

@mateonelson.bsky.social

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Editor & Arabic ➡️ English translator focused on Syria (Formerly @syriadirect.bsky.social)

A screenshot of a paragraph from the linked article reads: "A leader who entered a war he did not understand, in pursuit of objectives he had not reconciled, and who now confronts a situation in which every available exit diminishes the political narrative he has staked his identity on, is a genuinely dangerous figure to place at the apex of nuclear decision-making. He has made a catastrophic mess of this confrontation and appears to care only about his own self-image. That is, in the end, what makes this moment different from other moments of great-power recklessness: not the structural pressures, which are real enough, but the character of the man they are bearing down upon."