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Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam, Germany

Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam was used for several spy swaps during the Cold War. The Havel river below formed the border between East Germany and West Berlin.

İnteresting

***UPDATE***

New warship revealed by #NorthKorea hints at VLS and phased array radars. #OSINT

❗️The first photos of the construction of the newest North Korean frigate for the 🇰🇵DPRK Navy.

There's not much Mr Asimov says that I don't agree with . . . 📚 📖 📚

#greenwitchtea #greenwitch #books #learning #sciencefiction #fairytales #fantasy #library #reading #witchsky #witch #isaacasimov

True statement that often makes me feel terribly sad ashamed of the world we live in. 😪🙏

True statement that often makes me feel terribly sad ashamed of the world we live in. 😪🙏

Algerian shipyards to produce Chinese light frigates Algeria reportedly will produce Type 056 (F-15A) corvettes locally under a license from China. This move follows the delivery of the first vessel, El Moutassadi (hull number 940), in 2023. The vessel,...

Algerian shipyards to produce Chinese light frigates

defence-blog.com/algerian-shi...

Trump's foreign policy will be "predictably unpredictable" and he'll try to reduce the size of the federal government. But it seems certain that big spending on maintaining US military dominance will continue.

Recent Chicago Council data show that it's popular with Republicans

First Signs Russia Is Evacuating Navy Ships From Syria - Naval News The Russian Navy's base at Tartus in Syria is crucial to its support of the Assad regime, and its ambitions on the world stage. The dramatic shift in the front lines in Syria now puts the base at risk...

**BREAKING**

First signs Russian Navy is evacuating ships from Tartus, Syria

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NATO draws up plans for its own fleet of naval surveillance drones Officials envision fielding a network of drone-based sensors for keeping tabs on vital undersea cables and pipelines in the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.

“Following a pattern of undersea cable damage across European waters in the last year, with the most recent disruptions happening just weeks ago, top NATO officials have begun envisioning a capability that would allow the alliance to have permanent eyes above and under the waterline.”

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Trump’s envoy clashes with Kremlin insider over Ukrainian peace plan The future U.S. President Donald Trump's special representative for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has issued a direct response to Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who dismissed Trump’s proposed peace ...

Trump’s envoy clashes with Kremlin insider over Ukrainian peace plan

defence-blog.com/trumps-envoy...

Photo of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author that perished in Auschwitz.

"Every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable" (Etty Hillesum diary)

30 November 1943 | Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish diarist and author perished in #Auschwitz. She was deported there from Westerbork on 7 September 1943.

Bon appetit

Huge shelves with books behind a glass wall

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.

At the moment it appears that Russia doesn't want escalation but feels that it would have to respond. It would be good to have options in case it does. And options that don't lead to further escalation. 4/4

It might be prepared to escalate indeed, especially if the West goes significantly beyond the current relatively limited strikes. Of course, nobody, including Moscow, knows what "significantly" means in this context. 3/

Moscow seems to have interpreted the authorization as a signal of the West's willingness to involve itself more deeply and directly in the war. Oreshnik is a signal that Russia is prepared to escalate by taking the conflict to NATO territory in response. 2/

My take on this Oreshnik business is that the Kremlin is not necessarily concerned about ATACMS et al strikes, since everybody, including the US and Russia, says that these won't change much. Rather, it is concerned about the implied intent. 1/

IR Question of the Week: Is the United States "Exceptional"?

A 🧵