James Cameron

For a moment, I thought she had made an unexpected comeback.

All three of NATO's nuclear powers are currently experiencing periods of domestic political turmoil, which is not great to put it mildly.

I mean honestly if I were interviewing her this morning I’d put together a montage of ICE smashing car windows over children, smashing people against walls etc. and say ‘just so I’m clear Kemi, this is what you want?’

Even in the narrow instrumental sense of dealing with the Faragist threat to the Conservative Party, Brexit has been a catastrophic failure.

We should/do teach students how to engage critically with the historiography and place their argument within it. This is an important skill that requires close reading of the text. They cannot do that reliably with an AI summary.

International fees currently subsidise domestic fees. So the government is taking from the only pot that subsidises educating domestic students in order to subsidise educating domestic students. Cynically, I suspect the logic behind this is to performatively demonstrate toughness towards foreigners.

Half the time, I think the Trump people have a plan to overthrow the US Constition, and the other half I think they get up every morning and just wing it.

Today's meeting with the generals encapsulates that ambiguity.

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989-1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989-1991 Editor: James Graham Wilson General Editor: Kathleen B. Rasmussen Department of State Washington 2025

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today!

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989-1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989-1991 Editor: James Graham Wilson General Editor: Kathleen B. Rasmussen Department of State Washington 2025

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1989–1992, Volume XXXI, START I, 1989–1991 is out today!

Huge congratulations to @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social and the rest of the team at the State Department's Office of the Historian. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

20th century Latin American military dictatorships have called, they want their National Security Doctrine back

The mid-late Cold War had a form of stability, but not the early Cold War.

It's not a hot war, but a... cold war?

And a 3-day camping expedition.

Someone in the White House currently typing "How do you tariff a movie?" into ChatGPT.

The Missiles Threatening Taiwan China’s rapidly growing missile force threatens Taiwan and the U.S. forces that protect the island.

I spoke with NYT about the expanding DF-26 base in eastern China. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Read more in our recent China Nuclear Notebook: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Patriotic Bloc party Moldova. Soviet-style stars and hammer and sickles decorate the podium.

I wonder whose side they're on?

The leaders of which US allies are going to have to shuttle across the Pacific, like the Europeans did after the Putin summit, to talk Trump out of this?

If this is the case, then Bridge Colby really is just an empty suit.

If it is the existential fight the PM says, and one he is engaged in - would be good to hear more about why he disagrees with Reform?

Usually he either accepts their main grievance is correct, or if they overstep a mark he gives a flat footed response days later?

Perhaps I’m missing something

Hopefully it's just briefing the National Defense Strategy or something and not Operation Venezuelan Liberty.

Trump’s apparent U-turn on Ukraine cheers Europeans amid deeper skepticism about US policy Elation over Trump’s pro-Ukraine post vied with doubts that he will ever follow through with tougher action against Russia.

I don’t understand the framing of this Politico story at all. Trump’s post is saying Europe is strong enough to back Ukraine on its own…. US is out, hence he closes with “Good luck to all.” This ain’t good.

www.politico.eu/article/dona...

They didn't hear -- or chose to ignore -- the follow-up in which Trump equivocated on whether the US would back allies that did so.

"Sir, are you going to entrap or abandon your allies?"

"I'll probably entrap them a little bit, then abandon them."

"Sir, are you going to entrap or abandon your allies?"

"I'll probably entrap them a little bit, then abandon them."

"They should shoot down Russian aircraft, but I won't necessarily back them up if they do."

Cool, cool. Great stuff.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be giving a handful of talks in the UK (thread).

On Friday September 26 I’ll give a talk at Oxford at noon.

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The follow-up should be: "Would the United States stand behind a NATO member that shot down a Russian aircraft in its airspace?"

Is that a quote directly from the new NPR, or... ?

Yvette Cooper sitting there wondering whether someone put something in the tea or if this is real.