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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 16/12/2025

New post is up! Europe has agreed to indefinitely freeze Russian state assets. It marks a shift in how power, law, and restraint work when an adversary no longer respects the rules. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/currenth... #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #Europe #Russia #Ukraine

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 15/12/2025

New post is up! Japan’s path to Pearl Harbor was shaped by limits on oil and industrial inputs. This pattern still matters today as resource competition becomes central to foreign policy. #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #history #criticalminerals #energy current-history.com/p/the-resour...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 05/12/2025

New post is up! AI is throwing global energy markets off balance. Data centers are driving demand that shifts influence toward countries with minerals, storage, and power capacity. open.substack.com/pub/currenth... #Geopolitics #AI #criticalminerals #energy #technology

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 10/07/2025

New post on NATO’s agreement to more than double its defense spending pledge. Its a major foreign policy victory for the Trump administration. #foreignpolicy #NATO #defense #europe #ukraine current-history.com/p/a-victory-...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/07/2025

🚨New post on immigration and the Mexican-American War🚨 The war created a border cutting across ethnic and cultural lines. Border security is not a bad thing, but it requires understanding this history. #history #politics #immigration #borders #america #mexico current-history.com/p/the-war-th...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 20/06/2025

My latest post covers Israel-Iran conflict and what it says about the shifting landscape in the Middle-East. This was written before Trump signaled the US might engage directly (a bad idea, imo). #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #iran #israel open.substack.com/pub/currenth...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 14/06/2025

A week on from the 81st anniversary of D-Day, Eisenhower’s words still echo: “We must find some way to work to peace… to gain an eternal peace for this world.” As war spreads globally, his message is more urgent than ever. current-history.com/p/rememberin...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 05/06/2025

He was playing the long game all along

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 03/06/2025

Aaaand the huge rift that everyone knew would happen between two billionaires with ginormous egos finally happened.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 03/06/2025

My first thought after the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 was the two-state solution was dead. Not because that was what I wanted, but because it set in motion a series of actions that would inevitably lead to what is in the photo.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 02/06/2025

More evidence the world needs to rethink the capabilities of #russia compared to #ukraine. Ukraine used drones to attack five air bases in Russia, including two in the far east: one in Irkutsk, which is roughly 2600 miles from Ukraine, and another in Amur oblast an additional 1,000 miles away.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 27/05/2025

New post out on Trump’s Middle-East dealmaking. With over $2 trillion in agreements across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, his administration is betting on economic influence to reshape U.S. power in the region. #middleeast #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #trump current-history.com/p/deals-over...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 12/05/2025

This is a long-term problem for the U.S. In a multipolar world, maintaining global goodwill will be even more important. #politics #softpower #geopolitics

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 10/05/2025

I've been neglecting to share my latest posts, so trying to rectify that. This one touches on the misguided strategy of the Trump administration to cozy up to Russia. #trump #foreignpolicy #russia #china #history current-history.com/p/splitting-...

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 23/04/2025

Remind me why so many people are cowering in fear of this administration?

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 18/04/2025

Vance’s entitlement is insane. I’m of Scots-Irish descent too. I have ancestors who literally fought in the Revolution. That does not entitle me to a special place here.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 17/04/2025

I found it. The wildest timeline in the history of social media.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 15/04/2025

Yes, because if we know anything about Donald Trump, its that he has a completely conventional approach to the separation of powers.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 03/04/2025

Its fun sometimes to go back and read the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 29/03/2025

Three options here: 1. He's willing to say anything to stir up his base 2. He's crazy and detached from reality 3. All of the above.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 29/03/2025

I don't think this a political winner.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/03/2025

Glad to see some fight from these law firms. Standing down only invites more aggression.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 23/03/2025

Some European countries have issued travel warnings to the US. This is because there have been multiple incidents of foreign nationals being detained for several weeks.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 01/03/2025

Zelensky's "mistake" was signing up for an Oval Office spectacle rather than signing the deal in Kyiv. Trump needs to be involved as little as possible for this to work.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 10/02/2025

Two thoughts: 1) defaulting on treasuries, even talking about, is economically destabilizing 2) you CAN convince large bond holders to discount their debt. It’s the old adage: $1 million in debt is your problem, but $1 billion is the bank’s problem.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/02/2025

New cover of Time shows who we all know is the real president.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 06/02/2025

Just hit 1000 followers. Thanks everyone!

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 06/02/2025

Trump is suddenly VERY concerned about inflammatory language. Weird.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 27/01/2025

The executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico is going well

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 17/01/2025

A new and much-delayed post on Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy legacy is out (link in comments). Despite his perception as a weak leader, he set the foundation for the hardline Cold War policies of his successor. #jimmycarter #uspolitics #foreignpolicy #history #unitedstates

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 14/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3: No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes - by Anand Gopal

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 12/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2: The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1:

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 10/01/2025

I’ve lived in South Texas for nearly a decade, and this captures the interplay of culture with Mexico perfectly.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 08/01/2025

End-of-the-world vibes in Los Angeles this morning caused by smoke from the Palisades Fire 😳

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/01/2025

Horses in the Texas hill country. This was from new years day, so they get a pass from still having garlands on the fence.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 03/01/2025

It's getting spicy in the House.🍿 Mike Johnson will need multiple ballots to be re-elected Speaker of the House, and Hakeem Jeffries is only one vote behind.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 03/01/2025

New post on how green energy generation works and the policy implications (using my engineering background). Picture is for reach, the link is in the comments 😃 #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #criticalminerals #renewables#engineering

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 31/12/2024

Completely agree with this assessment from @gzeromedia.com #criticalmineral supply chains are not the sexiest of policy issues, but very important for national security, the environment, and the global economy

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 29/12/2024

Sad day. President Carter was one of the best men to occupy the office, regardless of what you think of his policies or politics. Definitely an example to follow. #jimmycarter

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/12/2024

Confirming my theory that business owners don’t want more immigration restrictions.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/12/2024

Scaling up solar has brought the price down significantly. This means the upfront cost of installing solar is decreasing relative to fossil fuels. Most new power capacity will be renewables, regardless of the politics of the issue. #green #renewables #climatechange #energytransition

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