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

I'm getting more active on Youtube! My work covers the intersection of history, technology, and foreign affairs. Check out my latest video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrEU...

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Russian Asset Freeze | Current History Vlog #1

YouTube video by Current History

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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 · 05/07/2025

Just read this. Great piece, really appreciate the context. Seems like any sort of action on the ground is out of the question.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 24/06/2025

Its not an ideological problem or a "messaging" problem per se. Its a stylistic problem that signals to voters that they are aloof and don't give AF about their problems

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 24/06/2025

Mainstream Democrats upset about Mamdani need to understand that they could win too if they actually did politics, campaigned, and talked to people instead of repeating focus-grouped, poll-tested talking points ad nauseum

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 24/06/2025

My latest post covers the AI technology deals with the Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia. It’s a shift from the Biden approach of working with democratic allies. #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #AI #technology #trade current-history.com/p/the-ai-chi...

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The AI Chip Deal That Could Reshape U.S. Power

Trump backs Gulf States in the AI race.

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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 · 15/06/2025

A part of the solution is to show Donald Trump and MAGA the same grace and decorum they show towards their political opponents

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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 · 11/06/2025

They, and people like him, embody the American spirit far more than these nativist fools who don't understand what their own country stands for.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/06/2025

I think of that family through all of this. How bright eyed the kids were when they saw our house, my childhood home, which their father had bought. A daughter holding her own child. Children of parents who wanted nothing more but to work hard and provide for their families.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/06/2025

My family sold our ranch to one of them. He was a framing contractor, with the business registered in his wife's name (because she was legal). People started spreading rumors that he sold drugs. He told my dad, who he considered a friend, in anger that he "doesn't f**king sell drugs."

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/06/2025

And it all works! In general the community improved. They worked hard and, in my experience, left things better than they found them. I could drive down some backroads and find some sheet metal shacks flying Mexican flags. And so what?

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/06/2025

20 years later, and the school district is majority hispanic. Teachers need interpreters to communicate with parents. Undocumented migrants use family ties to build businesses, buy land, and build their own homes (literally).

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 11/06/2025

Story time! I grew up in a small, rural community called Rice, Texas. It was poor and left behind by time. Single-wide trailers were one of the main forms of housing. When I was in grade school, my class was predominantly white: there were only a few hispanic kids.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/06/2025

If this happens and the Trump tariffs remain in place, 2026 will be an electoral bloodbath for the GOP.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/06/2025

If GOP funding is cut and Musk threatens to fund primary challengers and Dems, that will cause GOP reps to break ranks.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 07/06/2025

It’s safe to say (I think) that Trump won because of the intervention of Elon Musk. And the GOP is very aware of where that money came from.

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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 · 04/06/2025

Peter Thiel is the man behind the curtain, not Elon Musk. That's because Thiel is content with not being the center of attention. Just staying in the shadows while becoming one of the most powerful people in the country. mashable.com/article/what...

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What is Palantir? The secretive tech company behind Trump's data collection efforts

The Trump administration reportedly wants a master database on every American — and they want Palantir to make it happen.

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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

The Gulf states were tired of the Palestenian issue, a right-wing Israeli government wanted an excuse for a final solution, and angry Israelis were seeing red. The world was shocked by the attack and did not intervene. And now the fact on the ground is Gaza is destroyed.

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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

This might me one of the first #multipolar conflicts, where the interests of multiple states have to be considered, and not just what Russia or the United States wants. A peace that does not consider Ukraine's and Europe's security interests will not last.

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

I think the answer is a qualified "yes", but the idea that we should just cede a buffer zone in Eastern Europe to Russia does not seem realistic. And, with the increasing capabilities of Ukraine, as well as Poland, I don't know if you even *could* do this.

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

Nowhere in Russia is safe, and they lost a significant portion of their nuclear-capable bombers. From a realist perspective, can we call Russia a "great power" if it can't prevent an attack on its nuclear capabilities from a supposed "satellite" state?

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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 · 28/05/2025

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” - Benito Mussolini

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/05/2025

But, we are now in a world where political engagement at this level is not just a frivolous past-time, but essential if we want to preserve our freedoms and way of life.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/05/2025

Approach donors in these jurisdictions. Build networks of like-minded ones. The GOP in particular has been ceded to the crazies because local and state-level politics has been left to them.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/05/2025

Take over precinct and county party chairmanships, run for school boards and city councils. Send delegates to state conventions, run for state legislature, etc....

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 28/05/2025

It would be more productive for anti-Trump groups to organize politically and engage with both parties at all levels of government, rather than spending money on counterprogramming social media.

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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 · 26/05/2025

Yeah, except Florida has a bigger economy than Russia.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 25/05/2025

Everyone at that Trump crypto dinner called up their broker, asked to short futures, than bought the dip the next day.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 20/05/2025

Call me strange, but I think the official who oversees much of federal law enforcement should know you can't detain people for no reason.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 13/05/2025

You can try to work it out with what they wrote at the time. But they probably would have thought differently about things if they were around today.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 13/05/2025

"Strains" propriety? More like smashes propriety into a million pieces, runs the pieces through the jet engines, and scatters the dust in the sky.

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Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ken-briggs.com · 13/05/2025

Interesting book. Once upon a time I was a conservative who liked originalism, but then I noticed that that side of the isle often uses it when it helps get a specific policy outcome, and ignores it otherwise.

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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

"What they share is more important than affinity: they share a sense of threat. Both see the U.S.-led order, not just American military power, but liberal values, open societies, and global institutions, as a danger to their regimes."

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

"Fast forward to 2025. China and Russia are not ideological siblings, but they’re not rivals either. They don’t fight over the soul of Communism; China definitively owns that legacy. They’re not squabbling over borders."

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