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So Trump is planning on invading Greenland, explicitly violating Article 5 of the NATO treaty...

Call me naive, but isn't invading a treaty ally more of a Warsaw Pact kind of thing?!

One of the organizations the US withdrew from is the European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats.

That group primarily focuses on protecting European democracies from hostile Russian intelligence and military operations. Except the current US government hopes to see those hostile ops succeed.

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.

We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

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We've been upgraded from 'forever wars' to 'whatever wars'.

People keep saying this.

China’s Long Economic War How Beijing builds leverage for indefinite competition.

“Without moral leadership to complement its material strength, China’s global role remains that of a power to be managed—and, perhaps, feared—but not one to be followed,” writes @zoe-liu.bsky.social.

The man who stopped one of the Bondi Beach shooters is Ahmed El Ahmad, a Muslim man and 43 year old father of two.

He risked his life to save others, and reminded all of us that not all heroes wear capes.

He was shot twice and is in the hospital having surgery.

Please remember this man’s name.

A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.

BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.

The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

One of the clearest, logical thinkers and strategic communicators on why Russia must not win - and why Ukraine needs more support, not more pressure to sign a deal that favours Russia.

China’s new aircraft supercarrier challenges U.S. dominance in Pacific The Fujian and its strike group represent a strategic game changer that will bring Beijing closer to its goal of eroding U.S. maritime primacy in its backyard.

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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

🖌️ An Ottoman Miniature Depicting the Descent of Jesus Christ (pbuh) to Earth, Escorted by Two Angels, in Damascus (Second Coming), 1583 #JesusChrist #SecondComing

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Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

#Putin getting the welcome he deserves in #Anchorage #Alaska this afternoon.

So happy and excited for Kerry! 🤩

Truly delighted that our (co-edited with Ralf Emmers) @austjia.bsky.social Special Issue on ‘Coalition-Building and the Politics of Hegemonic Ordering in the Indo-Pacific’ is now out (Vol 79, Issue 4), with many articles Open Access!

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Filkins is always worth reading but the belligerent seemingly best prepared for the beginning of a major war often loses.

Defeating Russia Is Not Complex--We Just Do Not Want To Do It Also Minna and I Will Launch A Substack Live On Friday 1700BST/1200EST

Hi All, Just sent out this post outlining why, economically, militarily and historically, Russia is in a very beatable state in this war. Russia is not bound to win--it should lose, but so far we do not really want Ukraine to win. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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Every time I look at LinkedIn

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Some Very Serious People writing in Very Serious Newspapers said some things about Iraq in 2003 that turned out to be fantastically stupid, and not one of them ever experienced a single consequence for it.

Congratulations, Jan!

Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts.

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It is the express policy of the United States department of defense to suppress and destroy the service history of all non-white service members

The last surviving Battle of Britain Pilot, John 'Paddy' Hemingway DFC, passes away John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot of the iconic Battle of Britain, passed away peacefully on 17 March 2025 at the age of 105. Paddy Hemingway, one of a number known as ‘...

The last of the Few has left us. May he rest well.

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