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remember to read Kalecki as well as Keynes. if your class is defined by "control of the means of production" then production is a nice to have but control is a got to have.

I'm not surprised that American democracy is being dismantled in the interests of a car company, I'm just surprised they didn't hold out for a decent car

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

2024 me (which was, ooh, three months ago now) would have bet the house on the Russian Federation breaking up before the USA.

Today me see-saws from one to the other.

Which is perhaps less a reflection on the pace of change than of my geopolitical nous, or lack thereof.

Or in defence of Canada against the US 🤯

You can quibble about the data plotting or the visualisation. That's just tinkering at the edges. "The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia... than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west)." The US is aligned with the values of Putin's Russia.

If the Trump-Putin Pact exists, Europe has to pre-empt its execution.

If it doesn’t exist, but Europe can’t be sure enough of that, it still has to pre-empt.

Even if Trump assured Europe that it didn’t exist, he couldn’t be believed, so Europe would still have to pre-empt. /7.

Somehow, in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the first country to surrender was America.

Слава Україні 🇺🇦🌻

"et ses mains ourdiroient les entrailles du prêtre, à défaut d'un cordon, pour étrangler les rois," Meslier via Diderot (1772), paraphrased as early as 1791 already as: "quand le dernier roi sera pendu avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre célibataire, le genre humain pourra espérer être heureux."

The current US Administration is capable of two things only: breaking everything and spewing lies with a side of gleeful performative cruelty. Nothing else. Picking on just this one example because Ebola is terrifying. 🧵👇

Evergreen.

Usually political risk people write stuff about like the threat of armed group attacks or piracy or whatever but it's wild the #1 wild card factor is "we literally don't know what the most powerful empire that is the pillar of the world order is going to randomly decide to do tomorrow"

I know I should be concentrating on real concrete things actually happening, for both pragmatic and mental health reasons, but, seriously... wut?? 🤯

Begs the obvious question: will that include Trump?

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I’ve maintained since the initial invasion of Crimea in 2014 that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is as clear-cut as international relations gets. This is the first rung on the moral ladder. If you’re equivocating on this issue, you should not be allowed to turn on the stove by yourself.

Trump the self-appointed peacemaker is increasing the likelihood of war, not decreasing it. Putin is being given a licence to kill, not a one-way ticket to The Hague. It’s even more than a licence to kill, it’s an invitation.🧵10/17

bsky.app/profile/seth...

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.

We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

A quote today from the great Julia Davis. If Europe hasn’t figured out that Trump is bringing our 80-year collective security friendship, which has served us all well, to an abrupt and catastrophic end, you know it today. You are on your own. Act accordingly.

Trump being a creature of pure id also means he has much better and more basal survival instincts than Musk. Musk’s conviction that he is a unique genius walks him first into the rat trap where Trump’s rodent brain has him stand back.

Never thought that saving Europe from fascism would mean praying for German rearmament. But here we are.

"the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

What needs to happen to avoid this all-too-likely disaster? My hope lies with Europe, with the appearance of a leader with Churchill’s resolve, the spirit to say we will never surrender, we will defend all of Europe, from Ukraine to Portugal.🧵15/17

A wider war in Europe within the next twelve months is not inevitable. But in just a few short days, the dial has shifted from possible to probable. And I am not prepared for it. Not at all prepared.

If you get the chance to watch this, do. Zelensky: "People might be frustrated with Brussels, and I understand that. But, if it's not Brussels, it will be Moscow". #msc25

“If there is an agreement made behind our backs…Ukrainians will resist and we will support them”

EU foreign policy chief @kajakallas.bsky.social