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Dems need to haul Zuck up to Capitol Hill every week to answer for this shit treat these people like the political enemies they are

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François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social · 2h

The town hall of Limoges [population 250000) is burning and it's become much worse since this pic was posted by @afp . The hard left and its fellow travellers is psving rhe way for a hard right victory. Useless idiots

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

I will once again out myself but I will say thank-you to the good folks at cookdandbombd for their frankly archival levels of study of this stuff.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4h

Tesla fans are basically the Richard Dreyfuss and Danny Devito car dealer characters at the end of Tin Men who feel so on top of the world in their massive American car that they barely notice the VW Beetle roll past them

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4h

It reminds me more of how American car manufacturers in the 1960s and early 1970s obsessed over ornate but useless features like tailfins or massive torque even as German and Japanese corporations focused on affordability and everyday usability

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 7h

"I talk about Gaza but not Ukraine because the US is supporting Israel and the US isn't supporting what's happening in Ukraine" Great, well, now that the US is officially supporting the Russian economy and intentionally putting restrictions on Ukrainian defenses, you have permission to care!

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

People are particularly attached to the idea that war is orchestrated by shadowy elites imposing it on unwitting teenagers & are uncomfortable with the reality that Russia’s army is mostly 30-something contract killers

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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 18h

Baghdad Bob shit

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 12h

Why? Because the combination of Putin in the Kremlin and Trump in the White House means that the world we have relied on since the 1940s is gone. Our ”normal” is over. It takes me zero pleasure to say this. I have always thought of myself as an Atlanticist. I don’t want this.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

Dehm was recruited by the Stasi in the early 1970s to betray Wolf Biermann and other dissidents so is the ideal figure to coordinate actions between pro-Russia tankies and pro-Russian fascists

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

If every middle or potential great power in the current US alliance system decides it has to fall back entirely on its own military and economic resources to develop strategic hedging options that bypass Washington then it is pretty much a post-American global order

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 12h

This isn't just a problem for Europeans, lack of US reliability is also a huge issus for Saudi Arabia, UAE, Mexico, Japan, South Korea and at this rate even Israel. If the US is no longer able to coordinate a global network of alliances it loses its exceptional position in the global system

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 15h

People don't talk much about how much we actually kind of enjoyed the .com bust. Lots of visited a website called FuckedCompany that tracked all the catastrophes as they unfolded. There were dead pools. We were having a lot of laughs, while everything burned around us.

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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 12h

In sum, Europe needs a plan to resist a Russian attack without the US, or with minimal US support, at the sub-conventional, conventional and nuclear level.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Another excellent column by the always excellent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social👇

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

This is probably true but I still can’t get over lying about one of the most easily verifiable things out there than doubling and tripling down

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

How projecting an image of chaotic desperation is supposed to help the GOP in the midterms beats me

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

also a minor point amid the violence, but a photojournalists' camera and equipment are a significant expense to replace for someone in a profession that is very financially uncertain nowadays. She's a freelancer, but I hope WaPo does the decent thing here and covers the cost.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

waiting for the WaPo editorial page to justify the assault on their own photojournalist

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I've talked to a lot of euro government and mil folks in the last month or two and you have to believe me that they are neither timid nor stupid

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

before all the angry comments about europe sitting on its hands or whatever, really truly consider that these attacks are designed to be difficult to attribute and impossible to respond to in kind www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

Romania Says Russia Attacking Black Sea Route for Ukraine Ships

Russia is increasingly targeting Ukraine’s grain export corridors in the Black Sea and that increases security risks for the entire region, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said on Friday.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

With a US defence establishment dominated by the likes of Colby or Hegseth and whose intellectual thinking is reflected by the hempispheric imperialism of the DARC wingnuts, the Europeans and Canadians need to prepare for a rupture with this US government

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Europeans and Canadians need to be realistiic though about how all the sweet talk in the world will not avoid (3) as Trump descends into paranoid psychosis amongst courtiers happy to destroy relations with the EU, UK and Canada

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In German politics news, leaders of rival factions battling for control of the AfD party machine in North Rhine Westphalia are now fighting out their disputes through sword duels www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

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"Das ist irre!": AfD-Politiker treten mit Klingen gegeneinander an

Die AfD Nordrhein-Westfalen befindet sich im harten Lagerkampf. Jetzt treten zwei Funktionäre mit Klingen gegeneinander zur Mensur an. Die Aufforderung zum Kampf erfolgte auf einem Parteitag.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Eritrean regime is the kind of authoritarian dictatorship that doesn't give a damn about the welfare of its citizens. As long as it has access to Riyadh and Cairo it will ignore demands from London. And when London needs something from Asmara, this goes out the window anyway

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Just found this while sorting through powerpoint presentations from my first year of teaching at King's

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Until the next time Putin and Dimitriev make an offer, Trump, Witkoff and Kushner talk themselves into thinking they can get away with it, the get more pushback than they expect, then...rinse repeat

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A terminally online US government remains obsessed with a bomb that is more meme than effective instrument of real power

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Stripping someone of citizenship and deporting someone involved in corruption and other problematic actions also means that they can get away with avoiding prosecution for any crimes.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Fedorov says Starlink’s in-motion speed limit has been restored to 160 km/h, and he is working to remove the restriction entirely. It was “restored” because the limit had dropped to 70-80 km/h during the day.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One could argue that US actions towards Ukraine are a testing ground for a wider strategic agenda within the Trump administration that has the potential to end intelligence and military cooperation with the EU, UK and other European partners.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Russia has a name for neighbors that aren’t supposed to have their own foreign policy: the Near Abroad. It’s a wonderfully dialectical term, each half negating the other to create an imperial synthesis that treats sovereignty as a plaything of the Russian imagination. new post

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Trump’s Near Abroad

A complaint from across Lake America

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I say this a lot but the Four Seasons Conference remains one of the funniest things that has ever happened in human history. Some of us have been gaslit into being told it was "cringe" or "resist lib" and it wasn't. It just hands down a fantastic, roaringly hilarious thing from start to finish.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

More datapoints concerning how far the EU, UK and Canada can rely on the US government for the foreseeable future

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Apart from Ukraine, the other society experiencing the worst fallout from Trump's strategic incompetence is Saudi Arabia. Worth wondering what the impact on the global system would be if existential wars reshape Saudi state and society as much as they have Ukrainians.

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Some have noted that the most European of UK leaders, Nigel Farage, is once again drawing “inspiration” from the radical right abroad. Targeting charities & NGOs is certainly Orbán-style, but branding rescuers a “migrant taxi service” is pure Salvini, circa 2019.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage says charities that help asylum seekers reach UK should be prosecuted

Reform leader did not say who should be targeted but party figures have been critical of small boat rescues by RNLI

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A point some in Germany dealing with the AfD might want to consider

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Shuffle @shuffleosint.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Meanwhile Trump and Musk cut access to Starlink for Ukraine because of *their* supposed breaches. Treachery.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Just an FYI the available LEO alternatives are like Eutelsat OneWeb and thats it. Whats stopping them is mainly terminal technology. Maybe some satellite density problems

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Again - if the head of a political system can spend the night posting gruesome videos, some fake some real, of people being mauled by animals while his cronies undercut the defence of an allied state without warning, and there's not even a suggestion of his removal the next morning the system is bad

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Has anyone actually asked Amodei whether he has talked to the engineers and software designers that are directly involved in developing and manufacturing consumer goods?

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R Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The prevalent view in 2024-5 that Somme-level advances by Russia would continue or accelerate was always v dodgy but now it's just a zombie fact. Russia is stopped dead all along the frontline if not going backwards.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I doubt Starlink limitations will severely hamper Ukraine's mid-strike campaign as planners in Kyiv have not trusted the US for a while. From an EU/UK angle I'd worry more about how unreliable US leaders could tamper with basic intel and air defence systems Europe and Canada use

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Clearly no ally of the US in Europe, Asia or the Middle East can trust or rely on Starlink and will need to rethink state procurement plans accordingly

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukraine and I'd also argue Saudi Arabia will currently experience by far the worst effects of America's destabilisation under Donald Trump. But the states most exposed to Trump's direct lashing out if his domestic and foreign policy chaos converges are Mexico and Canada.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

European societies were there before the US existed and will be there after it is gone Canada survived despite several rounds of existential pressure from the US over 250 years We're already in a post-American order where Washington cannot be trusted and need to adapt

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