Francesco - unitalianoin.eu

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Because the large organizations of the Here and the Us are full of people and full of arcane complexities and utter stupidities, but where the Grass is Greeener in the Over There and Not Us, surely they are masters of logic, reason, and avoid all the problems of bureaucracy.

"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."

yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.

Cerimonia del giuramento e dell'insediamento del Presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella

🇬🇧 February 3, 2015: Sergio Mattarella was sworn in as the 12th President of the Italian Republic. One wonders what he is thinking right now, after everything that has happened in these eleven years
#adayinEUhistory #Italy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqd8...

Un alto ufficiale israliano afferma: a Gaza oltre 70mila morti - Valigia Blu Nonostante il consenso di molti esperti internazionali sull'affidabilità dei dati sulle vittime a Gaza degli attacchi israeliani, fino ad ora Israele aveva sempre rifiutato di ammettere il numero dei ...

🧵 Un alto ufficiale israliano afferma: a Gaza oltre 70mila morti
www.valigiablu.it/gaza-idf-amm...

It's 410 CE, and I'm your podcast host, Rossus Douthaticus. I'm here with Alaric the Visigoth, who recently sacked the Eternal City.

Alaric, why do you think people have lost faith in Rome? Is it a crisis of liberalism? Is it because of the feminization of the workplace?

From Front Line to Fault Line: Russia's Challenge Managing Veteran Reintegration - Foreign Policy Research Institute Russia’s policy execution structure decentralizes responsibility for the reintegration of war participants, while centralizing credits for success stories,

This isn't a matter of russophobia or racism: it's a problem Russia itself is facing already:
www.fpri.org/article/2025...

Estonia warns Russian veterans could flood Europe after Ukraine war, urges EU entry ban "We have close to 1 million combatants in Russia. They're mainly criminals; they are very dangerous people," Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said. "We have information that most of them will…

Just another problem that we'll need to address in the future:
kyivindependent.com/estonia-push...

#Russia #Ukraine #EU

Perché l’imperialismo trumpiano è diverso dai suoi predecessori? Un'analisi sulle forme d'imperialismo americane prima della presunta "Dottrina Donroe"

In questi giorni si è parlato molto del nuovo paradigma che sta seguendo l'America di Trump: un corollario alla "Dottrina Monroe", o Donroe, come dice lui, che segue un atteggiamento inedito rispetto alle vecchie forme di imperialismo USA.

Ne ho scritto qui: open.substack.com/pub/letteret...

You can all just quit your jobs. I want you to remember that. You don't have to go try and do pointless stooge shit in a city that already hates you more than you've ever hated anything and will sniff you out as diaper baby cowards before your rental van gets over the Ben Franklin Bridge.

L'unico baluardo contro l'oligarchia necropolitica in ascesa è l'Europa - Valigia Blu Dalla Russia agli USA, l'ascesa dell'oligarchia necropolitica sta svuotando le democrazie. In un mondo che ricalca la geopolitica di Orwell, l'Europa resta l'ultima speranza contro il potere nudo: per...

💈 L’unico baluardo contro l’oligarchia necropolitica in ascesa è l’Europa | @shekhovtsov.substack.com
www.valigiablu.it/europa-balua...

*Pikachu face*

"We are making ourselves into the world we want to give to the next seven generations.”

But isn’t that what you’d expect a politician to say publicly? That’s the standard diplomacy, it’s what happens now in closed meetings that counts. I’m sure all European & NATO countries are making plans & agreements for the future without saying something publicly that shortens the timeline

I think part of the sycophancy of last year was also a way to gain time. Same as the "good cop" moments with Rutte and similar stuff

I mean, functionally, as bad as congressional Dems have been - and they've been awful, Schumer and Jeffries particularly - there is simply no mechanism by which we can force this man from office without Republican officeholders deciding he has crossed a line

they have zero lines, none

it's bad!

it has never been more clear that Trump's "I could shoot someone on fifth avenue and lose no votes" statement is true, at least when it comes to congressional support

apparently it also applies to "invade greenland" and I don't really know where we go from there

Sanction and travel ban everyone in the administration, congressional republicans, and their billionaire backers and this is over by eod

Sharp points from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the basic error that centrists made in overreacting to meaning of Trump 2024 win. Dovetails w/my argument that folks didn't appreciate the latent solidarity with immigrants felt by many ordinary people (see below)

www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...

Kasky to Jennings: I understand that your job is predicated on just getting increasingly more demented every single week

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December 25 The Company of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring.

Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.

Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

Having non-male friends from elementary school onwards was one of the best socialization mechanisms against a patriarchal world.

Men in trusting cameraderie with all of the genders will partake in such a rich social world, and I cannot imagine a reality without it.

Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:

Anyway, between the formatting, the writing style and the open white supremacist ideology ("We want Europe to remain European...") you can tell that Pete Hegseth stayed up really late and wore out more than a few crayons writing it.

You can also tell that from the whisky stains.

In 2000, Putin was looking for closer co-operation with the EU. Now he claims for Russia the status of a unique civilisational power & a hegemon in the territory of the former Soviet Union.

New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief by @cerianbond.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/gzMAkk4

The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.

Among many other people, Winston Churchill made this point in (indirectly) FOIAable form to Hastings Ismay: