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Quite telling that the Euro answers tended to be at least polite, while the moment this hit American timelines the unhinged shit got going

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 13h

Because they would rather embrace simplistic myths that make them feel good about themselves than confront the complex challenges of a world beyond US borders whose realities they don't care much about

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The ability to hold two thoughts in your head at the same time marks one out as a dangerous subversive sent by the imperialists.

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Agree here, and having just blocked three dozen clearly American QT accounts who are projecting their domestic US ideological obsessions on a wider world whose details they are not interested in, I suspect this dysfunctional discourse will continue for some time

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If you spent a little time paying attention to the sheer carnage inflicted by the IRGC and Hezbollah on the Syrian people in the 2010s then you might have noted how far it is possible to condemn Israel war crimes without embracing an Iranian political system that pursues fascistic sectarianism

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Your enemy's enemy is sometimes also your enemy. See also Houthi, IRGC or Hezbollah behaviour towards other sectarian or ethnic groups, trade unions, Leftist networks, feminist organisations, LGBTQ etc

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Yet this became transposed into a willingness among particular strands of the Left (and Far Right) to downplay mass murder committed by the Assad regime against its own people in the 2010s or the brutal sectarian reactionaries that lead the Houthis now

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Yet of all discourses that reduce dynamics in MENA and global politics to specific preoccupations in parts of the Left the two that baffle me most is how you had some in EU/UK and US cheering on a psychotic autocracy under Assad in the 2010s and sectarian reactionaries like the Houthis in the 2020s

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The Oct 7 attack by Hamas was a horrific act against Israelis that made everything worse for Palestinians, the Israeli government committed war crimes, Hezbollah is a fascistic organisation that exploits its community, the IRGC feeds off endless war at home and abroad All these things are true

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 13h

That substantial portions of the European and US Left struggle with the idea that it is possible to condemn criminal actions by the Israeli government while also condemning the vicious brutality of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime continues to baffle me.

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We've already seen a version of this. Te government's role is critical even if it gets downplayed in order to justify the socialization of costs and risks and the privatization of the profits from the government's intervention. bsky.app/profile/chro...

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14h

Over at efinancialcareers, I throw a little bit of shade...

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 15h

Burnham receives a 5 point boost to his approval ratings to +16, Badenoch rises by two +2, Ed Davey is down two to -10, Lowe falls by 4 to hit a low of -15, Nigel Farage is steady at -24 and Polanski falls 4 to -28.

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Hey, I was paying you a compliment for getting so much right in terms of the longue duree

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · 16h

And the crazy thing about this is that are often considered the first wave of neo-liberal era policymakers in the 1980s understood the limitations of their model far better than market-oriented politicians and commentators today. It's how you get cargo cult capitalism among econ liberals today

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The resolution of Trumpismo will require a reassertion that markets only exist under the regulatory, rule-of-law state - the fantasy of state-under-market is...

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Falling: Wile E. Coyote's Cliff Plunge

ALT: Falling: Wile E. Coyote's Cliff Plunge

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What if societal discontent reaches far beyond just a specific kind of industrial workforce? What happens if state actors in a hostile power take actions that deliberately destabilise your economic model even if you stick to free market principles? You are ignoring quite a few variables here

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And you are not dealing with the core question of how state institutions as well as businesses secure the social stability at home and geopolitical stability abroad needed to avoid systems failure

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In a world in which business and state power is intertwined and secured through military power those many thousands of global interconnections involve complex intersectiond between state and corporate realms. To emphasise business over the state in how these flows work is also a form of simplism

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The non-state actors such as MSC and Maersk are heavily intertwined on a routine basis with key naval and security service institutions through which state partners help underpin their operations in periods of crisis

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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 16h

In around 18 months we're going to get a very long "I told you so" tour from Stan Dobrev

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So obviously bad Russian economy has gotten that the Putin regime propaganda outlets (such as Izvestiya) are allowed to admit it.

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There is a hangover from the 1990s in how too much geoeconomic analysis takes the geopolitical and domestic political foundations needed to get trade and growth for granted. Which means trade debate keeps getting blindsided by what is obvious to anyone working on border policing or military strategy

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Scandifriend @scandifriend.bsky.social · 16h

As we are reminded around the Gulf, Indian Ocean and South China sea, this economically interdependent world requires constant military and policing resources operating on a vast scale as a matter of routine to function. And to sustain that power requires military covenants and social contracts

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I think it's trying to wish the 2008 financial crisis away for starters. We are *still* bogged down in the legacy of that and as you say the best thing we can do is accept that the old solutions don't work

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The message Labour, Grüne, Linke, PSOE, PD and the rest of European Socialism and Social Democracy need to ram home is without social security there is no military security Welfare systems aren't bleeding business, they're underpinning social stability and military power needed for trade and growth

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It is why a 1990s reflex among economic liberals and much of the Right to pit social security against national security is not just shortsighted but also historically ignorant. As states discovered between 1914 and 1945, without loyal citizen soldiers who feel cared for a modern military loses wars

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A world in which societies can only remain stable with much higher levels of military and civil defence capacity than anticipated in the 1990s is going to involve a much wider degree of state intervention in the economy and efforts to sustain a social contract that secures the loyalty of citizens

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