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Corentin Brustlein

@corentinbr.bsky.social
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Former think tanker and lecturer on strategy and nuclear weapons, turned bureaucrat. Views are my own.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 20/07/2025
Cette page de Sputnik France vous est offerte par Vincent Bolloré. #VincentBolloréIsAKremlinAsset
L'ancienne patronne de RT France cherche à affaiblir la défense européenne (c'est sa mission depuis le début).
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
16 April 1932 | A French Jewish girl, Micheline Caen, was born in Montmorency. She arrived in #Auschwitz on her 12th birthday in the 71st transport of Jews deported from Drancy. After selection she was murdered in the gas chamber.
Portrait photograph of a young girl against a solid background. You can see her face and her eyelashes. She is wearing a buttoned-up neck blouse with a collar. She is smiling slightly. She has medium-length, slightly wavy hair.
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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Society for Military History is now archiving historical materials related to military history that are disappearing from federal or state websites. We are open to submissions, anonymously or otherwise. Please see www.smh-hq.org/archivedreso... and note there the submission links.
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Archived Resources | The Society for Military History
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Le mois prochain : « le feu brûle-t-il? » Merci le Diplo pour ces vraies questions
Monde diplomatique « ya til une menace russe? »
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
If Europe can't count on Washington, should it turn to London and Paris instead?
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Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force - War on the Rocks
Recently published Signal discussions in which senior Trump administration officials admit they “hate bailing out” America’s “pathetic” European allies
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Michael Kofman @michaelkofman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
1. This isn't a game of who has the most warheads. 2. If Europe needs more warheads, we can do that. www.ft.com/content/7fed...
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Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Worth revisiting Vipin Narang's analysis earlier this week (in his newsletter with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social ) on the upsides of U.S. extended deterrence.
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 06/03/2025
🚀 La fusée européenne Ariane 6 a placé en orbite un satellite militaire embarqué pour le compte de la France, un premier vol commercial lourd d'enjeux pour la souveraineté spatiale européenne.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency
A DOGE-driven mass firing of critical nuclear workers sparks alarm and leaves scars, as cost-cutting missteps throughout government rattle lawmakers.
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Ivan Gaudé @ivanlefou.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025
Le Collimateur, c'est bien, c'est bon, c'est utile. Et aussi, ça s'écoule gratuitement, à croire que c'est un service public.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
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Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reality check. Thank you, Financial Times.
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Ariane Chemin @arianechemin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Le narratif russe mot pour mot : Xenia Fedorova, ex-directrice de Russia Today France, affilié au Kremlin et interdit dans l’UE, chronique désormais l’actualité internationale dans le JDNews et sur Cnews et publie bientôt chez Fayard (groupe Bolloré, encore) un livre sur … la liberté d’expression
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VIGINUM @viginum.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Trois ans après le déclenchement de l’invasion du territoire ukrainien par les forces armées de la Fédération de Russie, #VIGINUM publie une synthèse des principaux modes opératoires informationnels observés depuis le 24 février 2022 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...
Guerre en Ukraine : trois années d'opérations informationnelles russes
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Paul McLeary @paulmcleary.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
NEW: Pentagon says it is firing 5,400 civilians next week as part of an effort to cull up to 8% of the civilian workforce, while implementing a hiring freeze. 46% of DoD civilians are veterans. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Pentagon prepares to fire thousands of civilian employees in dramatic culling
The Department of Defense is preparing to eliminate 8 percent of its civilian workforce
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 19/02/2025
🇺🇦 La cote de confiance du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky s'élève à 57%, après trois ans d'invasion russe, et non à 4%, comme l'a affirmé son homologue américain Donald Trump, selon un sondage publié mercredi en Ukraine #AFP
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Ariane Chemin @arianechemin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
La France si elle était occupée aujourd’hui en mêmes proportions que l’Ukraine
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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 09/02/2025
EU defence industry problems: EU Member States are not procuring European defence products (<50%), too much fragmentation, not enough production capacity, lack of interoperability and need to meet NATO standards…⬇️ A thread 🧵1/8 andriuskubilius.lt/en/european-...
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European Union Added Value in the Development of European Defence
The European defence industry is struggling with several well-known challenges: 1) Its production capacities are too low for the European Union to be ready for the most extreme military contingencies,...
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 09/02/2025
The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.
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IRSEM @irsem.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
#Publications 📚 | La Lettre de l'IRSEM du mois de janvier 2025 est disponible ! 👋 💬 Retrouvez-y les dernières publications de l’IRSEM, l'actualité des chercheurs et des doctorants, le compte rendu des événements passés, ou encore notre veille stratégique.
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Julia Grignon @jlgrgn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
En route pour Bordeaux pour la table ronde de lancement du dernier numéro de la revue Les Champs de Mars @irsem.bsky.social qui porte sur le #nucléaire ! Avec Élie Baranets, Adrien Schu, Maïlys Mangin, @dimitrialgretminic.bsky.social & @corentinbr.bsky.social 18h, au PJJ, @univbordeaux.bsky.social
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 17/01/2025
La France dénonce une « action agressive » de la Russie après qu’un avion de la marine française a été la « cible de mesures d’intimidation » au-dessus de la mer Baltique
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La France dénonce une « action agressive » de la Russie après qu’un avion de la marine française a été la « cible de mesures d’intimidation » au-dessus de la mer Baltique
Un Atlantique-2 de la Marine nationale effectuait un vol de surveillance dans le cadre d’une opération de l’OTAN en réaction aux dégradations de câbles sous-marins, dont est soupçonnée la Russie.
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A bad title but a good paper reader.foreignaffairs.com/2025/01/03/t...
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The Real Risks of Escalation in Ukraine
Critics of Washington’s Gradualism Are Misreading Putin’s Redlines
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Nathalie Tocci @nathalietocci.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Trump must decide between "a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine. The choice will determine not only the fate of Ukraine but also the success of his presidency," excellent piece by Bob Kagan www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine
If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Wordle 1 290 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Well, that was surprisingly fast
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Comment les pays de l’OTAN s’organisent pour protéger les câbles sous-marins, après de nombreux incidents
Plusieurs de ces infrastructures critiques ont été endommagées ces dernières semaines. Les suspicions se portent sur la Russie, port d’attache ou d’escale de plusieurs navires impliqués. Les pays de l...
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Justin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Fascinating that the PLAAF/CCP have chosen to fly this prototype in daylight now… I’d be cautious about attributing it as China’s NGAD-equivalent 6th gen fighter though. I suspect more likely to be the 5th Gen regional bomber/strike fighter project sometimes called J/H-XX
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians
Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/12/2024
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Søren Sjøgren @sorensjogren.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Military #doctrine is not a substitute for the theory. If you want to discuss Clausewitz (and you should), please read Clausewitz. Particularly in #PME PS: I love doctrine, and US Marine Corps Warfighting (MCDP 1) is a prime example of a beautifully written doctrine. #MilSky #CivMilSky
MEME on professional military education's tendency to skip the hard reading in favour of reading doctrine
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Iran Begins to Evacuate Military Officials and Personnel From Syria www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I'm not so sure we'd be safer with Russia having built and deployed 9M729 missiles and pseudo RS-26 'ICBMs' while the US would still be unilaterally constrained
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus with active cryovolcanoes. The water ice being ejected then feed Saturn’s E ring.
Encaludus with active cryovolcano.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I do *strongly* recommend this long NYTimes piece. I do *not* recommend reading it seated with your kid in an ER waiting room
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vincenttourret.bsky.social @vincenttourret.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Plusieurs années que l'on tenait à répéter que non, la guerre civile syrienne n'était pas terminée et que la "solution russe" n'était qu'une facade de tranquillité bâtie sur la terreur et la force brute quand d'autres aimaient y voir "la pacification, la vraie".
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 28/11/2024
⚡️ The Netherlands has delivered three Patriot launchers to Ukraine, announced the country’s Defense Minister, Ruben Brekelmans.
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The Netherlands Delivers 3 Patriot Launchers to Ukraine Ahead of Winter
The Netherlands has sent three Patriot missile launchers to Ukraine, supporting air defenses amid ongoing Russian assaults during winter.
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
La Russie multiplie les attaques de saturation de l’espace aérien ukrainien www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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La Russie multiplie les attaques de saturation de l’espace aérien ukrainien
L’armée russe cherche à épuiser les ressources de la défense antiaérienne ukrainienne avec des tirs au moyen de drones bon marché. L’armée ukrainienne parviendrait à en détourner une partie vers la Ru...
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This article is terrifying: "As wealthier countries bomb poorer ones, devastating essential infrastructure, they have created the tragic social conditions that foster antibiotic resistance. The public-health fallout knows no borders and can carry on indefinitely, even after the bombs stop."
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
lady of sophistication @janky_jane
Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario
Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty
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I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.Matthew @MrWeir
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I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'.
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My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her
15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web Appwas wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said,
"Where are we off to now. Columbo?"

Eoin O Neill
@eoinjoneill
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Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"Loic Wright
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I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it.

Eóin O Coileáin
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I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
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Clara-Doïna Schmelck @claraschmelck.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Terrible couverture de @politico-french-politics-POLITICOEurope.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A must read thread 🧵 on today's strike
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Bienvenue à l' @irsem.bsky.social sous le ciel bleu! (Bien qu'aujourd'hui très gris et neigeux)
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Corentin Brustlein @corentinbr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
An excellent and helpful thread on the changes introduced in the updated Russian nuclear doctrine
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 16/11/2024
Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️
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