Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann

I really don’t give a fuck.

I got one for my office! 🪴❤️

Economics is basically just one half step up from predicting the future by reading animal entrails and observing the flight of birds.

#ClimateActionWeek2026 continues at SSE today with the gardening club. Open to beginners & the plant-curious, the Gardening Club is a student- and staff-led initiative that reclaims unused space to grow flowers and herbs, and host plant-related workshops. More info 👇️
www.qmul.ac.uk/about/sustai...

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.

It's a long one:

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Americans have discovered going Stasi.

bugs bunny is standing next to a bottle of carrot juice and says i 'm awake ALT: bugs bunny is standing next to a bottle of carrot juice and says i 'm awake

9:00 Uhr Seminar am Freitag auch einfach eine Zumutung, ich sag wie‘s is.

example for this strategic division of labour. The US controls the warheads, the Europeans deliver the payload with US-made planes. For the operational requirements of an AA/AD environment, there is no plane that can fill the role of the F-35 until FCAS/GCAP arrives in the 2040s.

For the United States, a Europe that can defend itself conventionally albeit with weapons made in the USA in key categories is actually an ideal strategic bargain. Washington can reduce its military footprint while maintaining strategic leverage. NATO’s nuclear sharing is another

Germany doubling its orders of F-35 is hardly the death knell for European strategic autonomy, which in terms of 5th-gen fighter jets simply doesn’t exist. The F-35 is now the European standard even if some countries like Portugal and Switzerland are reducing or reviewing orders.

Not really. There are reams of pol sci publications, books, articles, papers, etc. that are pretty consistent in their definition. Those following the ideational approach define populism as a form of pol. communication that divides society into two hostile camps: the pure people vs the corrupt elite

Very happy to be in such great company and having contributed to this excellent volume with a chapter on ‘Studying Populist Security Narratives: An Analytical Framework’. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Conceptualizing the Links Between Populism, Nationalism and Foreign Policy: How Modi Constructed a Nationalist, Anti-establishment Electoral Coalition in India Drawing on a poststructuralist, discourse theoretical framework, the chapter analyses the interplay of Hindu nationalism, populism and foreign policy in the 2014 election campaign of the Bharatiya Jan...

The 2nd edition of the volume "Populism and World Politics" (ed. by @frankstengel.com, @dbmacdonald.bsky.social & D. Nabers) has just been published. It includes my chapter on the role of populism, Hindu nationalism and foreign policy in Modi's election campaign.
doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Keine Auflösung, höchstens ein ganz leichtes Ausfransen.

Welcome to academia: three degrees and making less than upper mid-tier Panda Express. 😭

are an ideological Other to America First and its representatives, from President Trump on down to Vance, Hegseth, Rubio, etc. This is no longer a transatlantic partnership of values, at best it’s a geo-strategic marriage of convenience overlayinga growing socio-cultural divide. /5

NATO, even if Washington will significantly reduce its commitment, but it only considers other nationalist populist parties like the AfD and LePen’s RN as an ideological equal. The very idea of European integration and the centrist parties that support the European project /4

of national identities and self-confidence’. This ideological antagonism and civilisational culture war narrative that informs the NSS was the theme of the 2025 MSC speech by Vance, and it was reiterated now by Rubio. The Trump administration has a strategic interest in /3

According to the NSS, the EU is undermining ‘political liberty and sovereignty’, transforming the Europe through uncontrolled immigration policies, ‘strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political
opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss /2

The Trump administration identifies the European Union (EU) as a hostile actor, its underlying principles of multilateral institutionalism and liberal internationalism are the anthesis to the nationalist, populist and repolitik vision of America First. /1

Team Trennung Staat und Religion.

The Trump admin promotes an ethno-nationalist vision centred on the superiority of Western civilisation. It’s anti-immigrant, unilateralist,and at its core illiberal. Strategically, the US remains interested in a favourable balance of power in Europe, but MAGA values are anti-European. #MSC

‘Also wir nehmen jetzt 4x die Schweinshaxe, 1x Krautsalat, 1x Kartoffelsalat, 2x Gurkensalat und vorneweg eine Brotzeitplatte.’

A photo of RFK Jr. with a quote. "I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." Trump's Health Secretary RFK Jr.

The guy in charge of our public health btw

a cartoon character stands in front of a crescent moon and star flag ALT: a cartoon character stands in front of a crescent moon and star flag

Hotel booked. Izmir, here I come! #EWIS2026

Elbridge Colby: 'We will continue to provide the US extended nuclear deterrent. And we will also continue, in a more limited and focused fashion, to provide conventional capabilities that contribute to NATO's defense.' Recalibration rather than withdrawal. www.war.gov/News/Speeche...

ICH LIEBE IHN SO SEHR 😭

testament to this new political dynamic and diverging economic and defence trajectories.