An unpleasant truth is mentioned in Lithuania's latest national security threat report, namely that Russia can't become a military threat to the Baltics (or the rest of Europe) as long as its bogged down in Ukraine. www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...
Feeling the need to cool down? On the new @crisisgroup.org War & Peace podcast, I talk to @ggricius.bsky.social about Arctic security--what it is, what great powers want from the region, what NATO is doing & why. If you want answers to these questions, listen in!
Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.
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In the US, professional diaspora politics is a lucrative game wherever the players are willing to align with American imperial interests.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.:
"It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...
"The assembly line of the twentieth century didn’t exactly stall because people worried about human life. That’s on you, humans."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...
I *really* dislike the deployment of World War II, USA on Japan rhetoric, here, for reasons obvious (nukes, maximalist, not helpful) & otherwise.
Esp given USA did not in fact demand unconditional surrender (as indicated by Potsdam Declaration “Here are our terms…” & Byrnes note”).
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'Among universities, there are now 76 inactive accounts, compared with 65 institutions still active this year. Tattersall found that in the past three months, 13 universities have ceased posting and five have stated publicly on the platform that they have quit.' 1/2
Maddy Crowell reports on the tech bros with visions of reindustrialization for America. Libertarians desperate for Uncle Sam's defense spending, preaching a New Deal jobs explosion while pushing labor automation and night terrors about war with China. harpers.org/archive/2026...
@samagreene.bsky.social
If the war has taught us anything, then, it is not only the resilience of the structures we study, but the limits of the ways in which we study them.
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Professor Brett reveals how the victims’ delegations changed the dynamics of the Santos-FARC-EP peace process, transforming victim-perpetrator relations and ultimately shaping the final agreement, which was signed in 2016.
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Iran’s nuclear program under Ayatollah Khamenei was never just a technical initiative — it was political, ideological, and tightly controlled by the Supreme Leader. 🧵
Indeed, tactical success and strategic incompetence has been the US military's secret sauce for decades.
👌Very sharp overview of how close the US/Israel-Iran war hits NATO member and thawing EU candidate Turkey. Energy, security, regional leverage - this matters far beyond the region. Curious to see her deeper take on what it means for #TürkiyeEU relations. #EurSky 🇪🇺 #iran
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Most Iranians and most neighbouring countries want an end to the theocratic regime. But Iran, almost uniquely, has neither a single unified governing regime nor a single set of motives and aspirations among those seeking its ouster.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Now, it appears that U.S. intelligence operatives may have been aware of the attack plan in its early stages and did not initially object to it. Only later did they change their minds and warn the Ukrainians against carrying out the operation – without success.
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
President Nawrocki has signed into law a government bill ending the special status granted in 2022 to Ukrainian refugees, who will now instead be treated on the same legal basis as other foreigners.
Nawrocki declared he was "ending the era of unconditional privileges".
It's not that the US wants to leave NATO, they just want to change it into the Warsaw Pact
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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One of the reasons why authoritarian regimes change voting systems to ensure victory rather than trying to intimidate voters on a retail level is that it takes far too much manpower. Parties are banned or candidates are systematically imprisoned and removed from the ballots.
Yes, agree but thats their brand format with lots of commercial in between
Nina Jankowicz has been vilified by Fox News, gotten a huge number of death threats, had deepfake sex videos made about her, and been forced to flee home.
Years later, a stalker still files frivolous suits and institutions who could help are cowed. Chip in if you can to help defray her legal costs.
Bcs Diary od Ceo podcast is big. With all its capital letters and very dragons dent podcast style. And ofc during the years lots of diff figures. Some good, some not challenged enough on their statements. And some just … well. This one with JK was fun 😉
HD cameras, 3D laser scanning, microphones, 5G connectivity, and biometric sensors: modern EVs are potential spies on wheels.
Poland has become the first EU country to restrict entry of Chinese EVs into sensitive military sites.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
My latest substack, entitled 'Eternally Expecting 1989: Why Liberals Get Uprisings Wrong, Over and Over Again' 🧵 /1
ageofchaos.substack.com/p/eternally-...
Had a lot of fun talking with @tcambanis.bsky.social last week about the fate of US foreign policy. The conversation was a rollercoaster of optimism, despair and outrage.
thecenturyfoundation.podbean.com
