Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @mwhanna1
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
28
Earliest tweet was on
2023-03-20
Latest tweet was on
2023-03-25
Tweets covering
4 days
Average age of authors' accounts
12 years
Summarization
The tweets discuss the lessons not learned from the 2003 Iraq War, including the risks and limitations of regime change and the dangers of military interventionism. The tweets also criticize President Obama's involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts despite his opposition to interventionism. The importance of understanding authoritarian control and the risks of ruptures in autocratic settings are highlighted. The tweets also address the idea that autocratic regimes are often better at propping up their rule and making the conditions for their collapse dangerous. The legacy of the Iraq War and the continued dangers of military adventurism are emphasized.
Topic Modeling
- Lessons from U.S. intervention in Iraq
- Regime change and authoritarian control
- The impact of U.S. foreign policy on Middle Eastern conflicts
- The moral and strategic costs of the Iraq War
- The role of autocratic regimes in Middle Eastern politics
Emotional Analysis
The tweets express a range of emotions including regret, frustration, curiosity, and apprehension about the United States' actions in Iraq and its consequences. Many of the tweets express disappointment that the U.S. has not learned from its mistakes and continues to engage in military adventurism. There is also a sense of concern about the dangers of regime change and the limitations of outside powers in driving events. Some tweets also express anger and blame towards President Obama for his involvement in Middle Eastern conflicts. Overall, the tweets reveal a complex mix of emotions and perspectives about the Iraq War and its implications for U.S. foreign policy.
Trend Analysis
- The US intervention in Iraq and its consequences
- The lessons from Iraq and their relevance for current foreign policy decisions
- The challenges and risks of regime change
- The limitations of Western interventions in autocratic settings
- The failure of the US to fully learn from its mistakes in Iraq and the persistence of military adventurism
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
11
Percentage of total tweets
39%
Number of Original tweets
10
Percentage of total tweets
35%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
28
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
5
Percentage of total tweets
17%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
4
Percentage of total tweets
14%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
3
Percentage of total tweets
10%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
| Source | Count |
|---|---|
| Twitter Web App | 17 |
| Twitter for iPhone | 5 |
| TweetDeck | 2 |
| Brandwatch | 2 |
| Twitter for Android | 1 |
What devices were used to tweet
Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrisisGroup | Crisis Group | We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental org, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. Our staff: https://t.co/Vwe0TwauK2 | 218,123 |
| speechboy71 | Michael Cohen | Subscribe to Truth & Consequences, Columnist MSNBC, Daily Beast author American Maelstrom, Clear & Present Safety, Senior Fellow @CSSfletcher NOT Trump’s lawyer | 80,864 |
| matuk | Farid Matuk | : ESTUDIOS https://t.co/0FqEW0yVzs & https://t.co/A0JmKt8Nc6 / FUNCIONARIO ocho años / CONSULTOR once años / CATEDRATICO doce años | 52,641 |
| APHClarkson | Alexander Clarkson | Lecturer for German and European Studies at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @APHClarkson@mastodon.social | 44,519 |
| aronlund | Aron Lund | I study Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at @FOIresearch. Fellow at @CenturyIntl, @SyriaStudies, @UIsweden & occasional freelance writer. | 36,594 |
| barbaraslavin1 | Barbara Slavin | Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center, lecturer GW University, ex-Atlantic Council, author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies. Tweets=personal views. | 36,253 |
| AbuJamajem | Sam Heller | سام هيلر | Researcher and analyst looking at Lebanon, Syria and the wider neighborhood. @TCFdotorg @CenturyIntl Fellow. Former @CrisisGroup. "Jamajem" means ☠️. | 20,647 |
| mwhanna1 | Michael Hanna | Director, U.S. Program @crisisgroup; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @RCLS_NYU. | 18,895 |
| AliAlAhmed_en | Ali AlAhmed | investigations, opinions, ideas, articles- EMAIL-- @alialahmedx -@Gmail- | 17,301 |
| EroComfort | Comfort Ero | President & CEO @CrisisGroup | 15,273 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
| Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
|---|---|---|---|
| AOAV | Action on Armed Violence | Action on Armed Violence is a London-based charity that researches & monitors global armed violence For data: https://t.co/FGJn67V6et For press: @iainoverton | 6,882 |
| Loay_Mudhoon | Loay_Mudhoon | #Politik- & #Islam-Wissenschaftler, twittert zu #Nahost, #ArabischeWelt, #Islam, #Demokratie RT≠endorsement. ❤ = like oder Lesezeichen. All views private. | 5,001 |
| barbaraslavin1 | Barbara Slavin | Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center, lecturer GW University, ex-Atlantic Council, author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies. Tweets=personal views. | 2,961 |
| speechboy71 | Michael Cohen | Subscribe to Truth & Consequences, Columnist MSNBC, Daily Beast author American Maelstrom, Clear & Present Safety, Senior Fellow @CSSfletcher NOT Trump’s lawyer | 2,930 |
| CrisisGroup | Crisis Group | We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental org, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. Our staff: https://t.co/Vwe0TwauK2 | 2,793 |
| JoostHiltermann | Joost Hiltermann | MENA Program Director @crisisgroup. Conflict prevention, human rights, good food, Belgian beer. MIT Fellow. Author of A Poisonous Affair https://t.co/92OLg7OQjo | 1,964 |
| KaLebhour | Karim Lebhour | Head of Comms North America @CrisisGroup | Ex @AFP Washington, Addis Ababa | Ex @RFI UN/New York, Mideast, Paris. Non récupérable. | 1,631 |
| Seharrison7 | Sarah Elaine Harrison | Senior Analyst @CrisisGroup | @CFR_org term member | Senior Fellow at GULC Center on Ethics | Fmr DoD attorney | Views my own | 1,533 |
| beirutwhat | Omar | RTs might be endorsements. Or not. Guess. | 1,523 |
| AliAlAhmed_en | Ali AlAhmed | investigations, opinions, ideas, articles- EMAIL-- @alialahmedx -@Gmail- | 1,405 |
Most active users
| Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
|---|---|---|
| CrisisGroup | We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental org, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. Our staff: https://t.co/Vwe0TwauK2 | 5 |
| StephenPomper | Policy Chief @CrisisGroup. Ex-NSC 44 (Multilateral Affairs & Human Rts), Ex-State Legal (Pol-Mil Affairs). NYU/Reiss Center Sr Fellow. Standard RT disclaimers. | 2 |
| EroComfort | President & CEO @CrisisGroup | 2 |
| barbaraslavin1 | Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center, lecturer GW University, ex-Atlantic Council, author of Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies. Tweets=personal views. | 2 |
| AOAV | Action on Armed Violence is a London-based charity that researches & monitors global armed violence For data: https://t.co/FGJn67V6et For press: @iainoverton | 1 |
| speechboy71 | Subscribe to Truth & Consequences, Columnist MSNBC, Daily Beast author American Maelstrom, Clear & Present Safety, Senior Fellow @CSSfletcher NOT Trump’s lawyer | 1 |
| mwhanna1 | Director, U.S. Program @crisisgroup; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @RCLS_NYU. | 1 |
| matuk | : ESTUDIOS https://t.co/0FqEW0yVzs & https://t.co/A0JmKt8Nc6 / FUNCIONARIO ocho años / CONSULTOR once años / CATEDRATICO doce años | 1 |
| harryhagopian | Public International lawyer, ecumenical advisor & political observer of MENA + Gulf regions. A pessoptimist seeking speckles of hope! | 1 |
| beirutwhat | RTs might be endorsements. Or not. Guess. | 1 |
Tweets per day
Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
| ID | Text | Retweet count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638815895404548096 | Obama won the presidency by rejecting U.S. interventionism, only to then wade into a series of Middle Eastern conflicts. @MWHanna1 on the Iraq War’s half-learned lessons and why changing an authoritarian regime is never a cakewalk: https://t.co/qDrLFzQxk9 via @CrisisGroup | 8 |
| 1638282610878173194 | "Don't Do Stupid Stuff" (said President Obama). The U.S. responded to the 2011 popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria intent on learning the lessons from its disastrous Iraq adventure. Yet lots of stupid stuff happened. @CrisisGroup @mwhanna1 https://t.co/l6Oz8QGqXU | 8 |
| 1638210172811108353 | Had enough Iraq retrospectives? Not so fast! Read @mwhanna1's excellent analysis of how and why President Obama - whose opposition to the Iraq War helped him win the White House - nevertheless ended up entangled in Libya and Syria. https://t.co/GydrLjHSuZ | 7 |
| 1638227906836017152 | Lessons not fully learnt from #Iraq: while there's no blueprint for how to respond to instability, D.C. should approach each situation with a clear sense of limits on any outside power’s ability to drive events. Will it though asks @mwhanna1 @CrisisGroup https://t.co/RHZK9c3JWU | 7 |
| 1638556148935557122 | “While many now take heart that Iraq has a democracy, albeit a messy one, this limited achievement in no way justifies the war’s moral and strategic costs.” New commentary by @mwhanna1. https://t.co/VUYX4cEnzi | 3 |
| 1638330388547289088 | .@CrisisGroup’s @mwhanna1 on lessons from the U.S. invasion of Iraq about regime change and the nature of authoritarian control that America’s political culture has mostly failed to internalize: https://t.co/uUBxzgfcPb | 3 |
| 1638610809377923085 | 20 years after the Iraq War, the U.S. hasn't learned its lesson about military adventurism. Good read by @mwhanna1 on the mother of all foreign policy blunders - and how it still looms large. https://t.co/3IrSQUWN0I | 1 |
| 1638561317064699908 | ... and analysis from colleagues @mwhanna1 and @delaneysimon @politico here: https://t.co/YOyDNxejkR | 1 |
| 1639286638894362627 | The core lesson of the 2003 Iraq war is that ruptures in autocratic settings are inherently fraught with risk, but it’s hard to know if the U.S. foreign policy establishment has fully learned this says @mwhanna1. https://t.co/FqqwaZ2gM8 | 1 |
| 1639643302617133056 | “The good intentions that accompanied the push for regime change did not spare either Libya or Syria a fate similar to Iraq’s”, says @mwhanna1. https://t.co/uTKfpuUhii | 0 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
| ID | Text | Like count |
|---|---|---|
| 1638282610878173194 | "Don't Do Stupid Stuff" (said President Obama). The U.S. responded to the 2011 popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya and Syria intent on learning the lessons from its disastrous Iraq adventure. Yet lots of stupid stuff happened. @CrisisGroup @mwhanna1 https://t.co/l6Oz8QGqXU | 22 |
| 1638330388547289088 | .@CrisisGroup’s @mwhanna1 on lessons from the U.S. invasion of Iraq about regime change and the nature of authoritarian control that America’s political culture has mostly failed to internalize: https://t.co/uUBxzgfcPb | 12 |
| 1638227906836017152 | Lessons not fully learnt from #Iraq: while there's no blueprint for how to respond to instability, D.C. should approach each situation with a clear sense of limits on any outside power’s ability to drive events. Will it though asks @mwhanna1 @CrisisGroup https://t.co/RHZK9c3JWU | 11 |
| 1638815895404548096 | Obama won the presidency by rejecting U.S. interventionism, only to then wade into a series of Middle Eastern conflicts. @MWHanna1 on the Iraq War’s half-learned lessons and why changing an authoritarian regime is never a cakewalk: https://t.co/qDrLFzQxk9 via @CrisisGroup | 10 |
| 1638210172811108353 | Had enough Iraq retrospectives? Not so fast! Read @mwhanna1's excellent analysis of how and why President Obama - whose opposition to the Iraq War helped him win the White House - nevertheless ended up entangled in Libya and Syria. https://t.co/GydrLjHSuZ | 6 |
| 1638556148935557122 | “While many now take heart that Iraq has a democracy, albeit a messy one, this limited achievement in no way justifies the war’s moral and strategic costs.” New commentary by @mwhanna1. https://t.co/VUYX4cEnzi | 5 |
| 1639286638894362627 | The core lesson of the 2003 Iraq war is that ruptures in autocratic settings are inherently fraught with risk, but it’s hard to know if the U.S. foreign policy establishment has fully learned this says @mwhanna1. https://t.co/FqqwaZ2gM8 | 5 |
| 1639643302617133056 | “The good intentions that accompanied the push for regime change did not spare either Libya or Syria a fate similar to Iraq’s”, says @mwhanna1. https://t.co/uTKfpuUhii | 4 |
| 1638610809377923085 | 20 years after the Iraq War, the U.S. hasn't learned its lesson about military adventurism. Good read by @mwhanna1 on the mother of all foreign policy blunders - and how it still looms large. https://t.co/3IrSQUWN0I | 4 |
| 1638561317064699908 | ... and analysis from colleagues @mwhanna1 and @delaneysimon @politico here: https://t.co/YOyDNxejkR | 2 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets
Top 10 Hashtags used
| Hashtag | Count |
|---|---|
| #iraq | 2 |
| #american | 1 |
| #saudis | 1 |
| #khalifa | 1 |
| #apartheid | 1 |
| #egyptian | 1 |
| #libya | 1 |
| #us | 1 |
| #yemen | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets
Top 10 mentions
| Mention | Count |
|---|---|
| @mwhanna1 | 28 |
| @crisisgroup | 13 |
| @aronlund | 2 |
| @stephenpomper | 2 |
| @delaneysimon | 2 |
| @politico | 2 |
| @abujamajem | 2 |
| @joosthiltermann | 1 |
| @kalebhour | 1 |
| @erocomfort | 1 |
Top 10 mentions
Wordcloud of Tweets
Emojis
Average number of emojis used per tweet
3
Emojis used in tweets
| Emoji | Count | Emoji Text |
|---|---|---|
| 👇 | 1 | backhand_index_pointing_down |
Emojis groups
| Emoji Group | Count |
|---|---|
| People & Body | 1 |