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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu

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"You are as beautiful as Draghi's Whatever it takes" 🇪🇺 Almost historian, full-time podcast listener🎙️ Writing on military history, US and EU politics, and videogames while preaching the defeat of Putin's regime🇺🇦

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Arendse @arend.se · 04/09/2026
One of the lesser-known fantastical creatures I talked about last week at @laworldcon.bsky.social was the bonnacon. It appears in medieval bestiaries as a bull-like creature with horns curved back on themselves and therefore useless to protect itself. Instead, it expels flaming poop in defense.
A bull-like creature with curved horns expels excrement/flames at a shielded hunter who looks like he's regretting his choices. From Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 1633 4°, f. 10r
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And you are *absolutely* not supposed to ask how they got that big. Just always was that way, I guess. By contrast, as an American, the reason the USA is really big is that we did a bunch of imperialism and settler colonialism, which was bad.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I cannot communicate how shameful and disgusting that is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism
Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 17/08/2026
THURSDAY ON @thisguysucked.com: Fan favorite @roelkonijn.bsky.social returns and we do, in fact, discuss ditches. And also polygamy.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
the thing about the “edgy antihero” era of tv writing was that a lot of the time the allure was really just giving the audience a way to enjoy the experience of being a Bad Person, especially seeing sexual violence
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It is my professional opinion as a highly educated expert on national security matters that this could be a sign of low morale. Be sure to like and follow for more insightful content.
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Michael J Armstrong @profmjarmstrong.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Criminologists study crime, epidemiologists study plagues, biologists study cancers. None of them want more of that bad stuff to occur. But some folks somehow assume that academics who study war must be rampant warmongers?! 🤷
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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tune in - I'll be on tomorrow (6/11) at noon EDT with @flintdibble.bsky.social to talk about the rise of simplistic, right-wing 'chud classics' on Twitter - their thumbless grasp of antiquity and the odious ideology that sits behind it. youtube.com/live/mfA8uwx...
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The Rise of Chud Classics: The Culture Wars and Ancient Greece and Rome. With Dr Bret Devereaux
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I realize one is not supposed to say this in politics, but it is just clearly the case that 77,302,580 voters have blood on their hands for this, bear real, moral culpability for deciding that it was a good idea to put idiot Fox News Grandpa back in power for [reasons].
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm wondering what the oldest work I can think of that I can point at and say, "look, introspection in an individualist way!" Maybe the Epic of Gilgamesh with Gilgamesh's self-doubt and concern with mortality? That gets me to c. 2000 BC and I don't know a lot of anything older than that.
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
We might finally get rid of another Russian puppet in the near future balkaninsight.com/2026/03/09/t...
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Transnistria Feels the Heat as Moldova Pushes Harder for Reintegration
Moldova is tightening screws on breakaway Transnistria – now struggling with an energy crisis – but success in ousting Russian ‘peacekeepers’ from the region will depend in part on the outcome of the ...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/03/2026
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
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Ironlily @ironlilyart.com · 21/11/2025
Always easy to get satisfied by belittling or creating myths to mock historical life, because the dead can't speak.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“You’re gonna die for a ‘multicultural economic zone?’” “Someone is.”
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🇮🇹 Oggi una notizia dall'Italia, dove gli Stati Uniti hanno deciso di cedere il comando del Joint Force Command Naples della NATO al nostro paese. Decisione sicuramente da tenere d'occhio insieme al cambio avvenuto anche alle basi di Norfolk e Brunssum. www.lalettre.fr/fr/politique...
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Italy takes NATO’s Naples command
Italy will assume command of Joint Force Command Naples as NATO reshuffles senior operational responsibilities, strengthening European leadership without weakening the United States’ commitment to…
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Europeans think all the random loot in Fallout is because of a nuclear war but America is just like that. Yesterday, I found a rocket launcher looking for my phone charger.
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🇬🇧 February 7, 1992: Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Greece, the United Kingdom and Ireland sign the Treaty on European Union (TEU), better known as the Maastricht Treaty #adayinEUhistory
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Queen of Halloweentown MetaBlueSky ♨️ @metabluesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"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.
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🇬🇧 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...
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Cerimonia del giuramento e dell'insediamento del Presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella
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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 30/01/2026
🧵 Un alto ufficiale israliano afferma: a Gaza oltre 70mila morti www.valigiablu.it/gaza-idf-amm...
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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 ...
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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?
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just another problem that we'll need to address in the future: kyivindependent.com/estonia-push... #Russia #Ukraine #EU
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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…
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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...
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Perché l’imperialismo trumpiano è diverso dai suoi predecessori?
Un'analisi sulle forme d'imperialismo americane prima della presunta "Dottrina Donroe"
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Len @len.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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.
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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · 23/01/2026
💈 L’unico baluardo contro l’oligarchia necropolitica in ascesa è l’Europa | @shekhovtsov.substack.com www.valigiablu.it/europa-balua...
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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...
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"We are making ourselves into the world we want to give to the next seven generations.”
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Paul killick @paulkillick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/01/2026
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!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/01/2026
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
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sanction and travel ban everyone in the administration, congressional republicans, and their billionaire backers and this is over by eod
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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...
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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Kasky to Jennings: I understand that your job is predicated on just getting increasingly more demented every single week
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Francesco - unitalianoin.eu @francescodanieli.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This whole thread
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𝔍𝔬𝔢 @joeblivion.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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.
December 25 The Company of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/12/2025
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.
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Software enthusiasts when I drop an actual physical muntion on them in actual physical reality:
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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.
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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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
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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, here’s the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This week on the blog: Hoplites! We're taking a crack at explaining the long-running debate over the nature and significance of the ancient Greek heavy infantryman, the hoplite, and the phalanx in which he (mostly) fought. acoup.blog/2025/11/14/c...
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Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos
This week (and next) we’re looking at hoplites, the heavy infantry of the ancient Greek poleis in the (early? mid? late?) Archaic and Classical periods, into the Hellenistic. In particular, I…
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Imagine an EU-wide government shut down in its 6th week leading to serious disruption of air traffic. We would not hear the end of it in Anglophone media.
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Ander Bruckestand @anderbruckes.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Another Professor, this time an Italian one, and another bunch of stupid pro-Russia BS. "When a Russian missile hits a civilian building in Kharkiv and kills civilians, that's not the goal". Our information system is rotten to the core. Russian propaganda is everywhere.
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Francesco Violi @francescovioli.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Bothsideism on Ukraine is even worse than being honestly pro-russian. The only imperialism I see here from "the West" is a country who wanted to be free and integrated in the EU and no longer a muscovite province. Putin could get his dirty hands off Ukraine and the war could be over in days.
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