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A member of Taiwan's parliament stole a bill and ran off with it to prevent it from being passed

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin’s call for a monarch to rule America once seemed like a joke. Not anymore.

A Playbook for Industrial Policy What Washington can learn from CHIPS.

Read Nikita Lalwani and Sam Marullo on the challenges of designing an effective industrial policy—and what U.S. leaders can learn from 2022 CHIPS and Science Act:

Be a real leftist and popularise phonebox libraries

It is incredible to me to swear to defend the country, doing everything in your power to destabilize it and to try to take it back 90 years towards authoritarianism. 8/

Still, they think they are engaged in a sort of holy war for the protection of the country from the corrupt political elite and globalist intervention. 7/

This comes from the far right propaganda that Romanian politicians want to participate directly in the War in Ukraine, not only a lie, but an idea that was never on the public agenda. 6/

Secondly, it is important because the protesters constantly scream at the top of their lungs that they do not want to go to war, that they are people of peace. 5/

They are disregarding this second part of the oath, not only because it is less catchy, but also because they are trying to destabilize the constitutional order, and threaten to destroy Romania's liberal democratic statehood. 4/

First of all, because they choose only what suits them, the oath continuing with: "I swear to respect the Constitution, the laws of the land and the military regulations". 3/

Besides this militarization of the discourse, because the PMC mercenaries and fascist paramilitaries that backed him were not enough, I believe this chant is not only important to understand but pretty ironic. 2/

For the past few days protesters who support the fascist politician Călin Georgescu started chanting a part of the military service oath.
"I swear to defend my country, even at the cost of my life." 1/

At the speed the Trump administration is shattering US state capacity the Americans won't be able to provide much help or do anything else outside the Western Hemisphere anyway

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia.

Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist.

Extraordinary.

Blimey. Asked about Trump, Merz says he’s in close contact with European leaders about becoming “independent” from US (and confesses “I never thought I’d say that on TV show”). Casts doubt on value of NATO summit in June.

This from a die-hard Atlanticist. Things are moving fast.

Only a Handful of Republicans in Congress Object to Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move o...

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8,000 Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923.

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Imagine you start studying polsci in 2022 trying to understand geopolitics and the "New Cold War." Meanwhile, your country's political situation starts boiling that now you reconsider your entire academic focus back to authoritarian backsliding and democratization, and then also South Korea happens!

A [FAKE] tweet from South Korea's soon-to-be-ex-President Yoon Su, reading "The haters said we couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters"

Many in the Middle East are starting to find out something us in Central and Eastern Europe have known for a while: that Erdogan is incredibly good at playing both sides in a conflict in order to further his own interests. Some will never forget the dramatic rallies in support of Palestine...