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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 26/05/2026

"We have made Italy. Now we must make Italians" wrote Massimo d'Azeglio in 1861. The same thing can be said today of the EU, which finds itself in a similar situation as the newly-created Italy 160 years ago. Europeans do not yet know they're European. pederschaefer.substack.com/p/europe-has...

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

💥Before Hungary's election, Viktor Orbán labeled me a "Ukrainian spy" for exposing FM Péter Szijjártó's collusion with Sergey Lavrov, then his government filed criminal charges against me. Hungarian police have now dropped the case – for lack of any supporting evidence.🤷‍♂️

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

💥"Yesterday you could feel a huge relief among leaders. Because it was for the first time in years that there were no Russians in the room, if you know what I'm talking about. But..." And then Robert Fico walks in while Donald Tusk winks at the reporters. Pure perfection.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Hungarian election is about Russian oligarchy and its support of the international far right. That’s why Vance is there. He is a node in that network.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What a bittersweet moment to watch astronauts push farther from Earth than ever—an awe-inspiring triumph of science and courage—only to peak during the dumbest time ever, on the watch of an illiterate buffoon. #Space #Science #Artemis

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I can't imagine how anyone would understand Democracy without having read "Democracy for Realists" by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels. The solution starts with knowing what's in that book. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Democracy for Realists

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“The U.S. president went on to call NATO a "paper tiger" and said Vladimir Putin shares that opinion.” The paper tiger that so viciously expanded to the borders of Russia and threatens it, you mean?

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Europe did not become peaceful because it discovered the moral value of peace. It became peaceful because its empires collapsed. The EU is the world’s most successful post-imperial political project – an alternative way of organising power and prosperity without empire. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

That’s what one would call kompromat. Almost like the title of the book by @craigunger.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 I-told-you-so prize. It’s not too late to read “American Kompromat”.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

More Epstein files released, numerous allegations against Trump. So we can expect the strikes against Iran any minute now.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🎯 🎯

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Heading into an increasingly hostile future, Europeans have the choice between Federation or Failure Anyone who tells you that a loose confederation of nation states will be able to prevail is a fool Anyone who suggests a European Army without endorsing a European Federation is a fool #european

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Trump’s public confrontation of Europe over Greenland is the perfect incentive for Russia and China to increase military activities around Greenland in order to further divide NATO by creating a self fulfilling security-threat prophecy for Trump to use as an argument to double down.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

If European leaders back down now when it comes to Greenland, what keeps Trump from aiming at Iceland next, applying the same logic. Then Svalbard? The Azores? Canada? It’s time to play a different game: raise the stakes for Trump personally, target his business interests and those of his cronies.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/01/2026

Yes, this was predictable. From October, 2024: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/01/2026

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to you and your Ewoks! 🐾❤️🎄

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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hungarian investigation into a network of fake online profiles reportedly run by the Russian-backed Orban regime for developing artificial online consensus of support for the ruling party.

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𝒱𝒶𝓁𝓀𝓎𝓇𝒾ℯ living her best life 🗡 @swisstatjana.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"Sorry Russian Propaganda, I can't hear you, repeat?"

Post from Ukraine/YkpaïHa on X

"November 20
Russian top general to Putin: "Kupiansk has been taken under control"

December 2
Putin: "We invite foreign media to Kupiansk"

December 12
Zelenskyy: Hello from Kupiansk" "

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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 02/12/2025

Quote for today's negotiations: "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." Carl von Clausewitz in "On War," 1816-1830

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"Europeans wasting the next four years hoping that America’s pivot from Europe—and Russia’s designs for the continent—will disappear into thin air would all but doom Europe’s collective security" True. But the delusion persists, viciously. ecfr.eu/article/look...

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Look what you made us do: How to realise a European-led NATO

America’s gradual retreat from European security under the current Trump administration is reshaping NATO’s centre of gravity. To keep the alliance credible and united, Europeans not only need to…

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Net déck, Lëtzebuerg... "Data literacy refers to the ability to articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and content, TO JUDGE THE RELEVANCE OF THE SOURCE AND ITS CONTENT, and to store, manage and organize digital data, information and content.

Graph by eurostat on basic information and data literacy skills, 2023

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.wsocial.eu · 31/07/2025

Europe’s summer of humiliation. A sobering read by Marc de Vos on Europe’s self imposed capitulation

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Europe’s summer of humiliation

America knew the EU was weak. The rest of the world knows it now

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/06/2025

Absolutely striking numbers. 65% of Germans support Germany significantly increasing its defence expenditures to reach NATO’s 5%* goal. *it’s a 3,5%+ goal, to be exact.

Graph showing that 65% of germans support higher defence expenditures to reach NATO’s 5% goal.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

4/ A former pre-trial detainee named Vadim has posted a video in which he describes how the prisoners were treated. He says they were immediately tortured and had their living conditions made unbearable, before being presented with a dildo and an unsigned contract.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In American Kompromat, @craigunger.bsky.social sheds light on the secretive catholic connection that supported Trump’s & Vance’s political careers. Interesting to see how Pope Leo XIV will affect this game, given that 3 out of his 5 tweets were anti-Trump/Vance. Watching this with delight. 😄

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In a nutshell: We are universal problem solvers. All problems can be solved. There will always be problems. If we stop solving problems, we are doomed. #mostimportantbooks “Growth of knowledge is a continual transition from problems to better problems.” - David Deutsch

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So, I have a trade deficit with my grocery store. To stop them from taking advantage of me, I will force myself to pay a 20% tax to myself when shopping for groceries, in order to compel myself to spend less there and produce my own food instead. Am I getting this right?

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donald trump making a funny face while holding a microphone in front of a fox news sign

ALT: donald trump making a funny face while holding a microphone in front of a fox news sign

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Le fait de chercher à jeter le discrédit, publiquement […] sur un acte ou une décision juridictionnelle, dans des conditions de nature à porter atteinte à l'autorité de la justice ou à son indépendance est puni de six mois d'emprisonnement et de 7 500 euros d'amende. Law and order, Mme Le Pen?

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” Hannah Arendt

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Doesn’t seem like there is an education system to defund in the first place.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What these men in fact mean when they complain about "interference with national sovereignty” is actually "interference with my shady business". Their real goal is to establish extractive institutions, as described by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social. news.mit.edu/2012/why-nat...

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All the difference in the world

In new book, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson assert that above all else, political institutions — not culture or natural resources — determine the wealth of nations.

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wrote a new piece for foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card. When it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water. Thread. 1/ foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

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Heavy Industry Is Europe’s Trump Card

The continent has an upper hand in its looming security competition with the United States.

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ten years ago today the Russian opposition politician & fierce Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge opposite Red Square.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Whatever happens with German elections today, I thank Olaf for all he has done to help me to stay in this war for this long. His escalation management delays & drip feeding made the difference.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The new guy in charge of the US military: “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” Trump claims he then put on a MAGA hat. How many more steps until full banana republic status, or are they there yet?

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Trump: if the rape victim gives me her ring, I will negotiate a great deal for her and her rapist. We seem to have reached peak evil and stupid at the same time.

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Ultracrepidarian infantrist @foxholebookworm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The richest man on earth has bought the US presidency. How much exactly Putin had to pay for it is not yet clear yet, but it seems to have been a only a small fraction of his mob wealth. Not many see the bigger picture: the final self-destruction of the West is the fruit of a 20-year 🇷🇺 effort.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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