Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 4hChile recovered its democracy because in 1988 we are at the peak of the democratic world wide wave and domino/'contagion' theory works in our favour to 2263
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 8hTVR ran old interviews with Djuvara last night and I still struggle were to mentally place him in relation to the other 'intellectuals' who supported the Iron Guard (Cioran, Eliade....etc). He says 5 normal stuff and then goes on esoteric rants (he obvs did his classic Cuman rants unprompted lol) 280
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 12hAsked the AI to make comprehensible list of books on early Arab history and it just told me to read Tabari 160
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Imagine how people must've felt going from the ghettos of the pogrom ridden Pale villages of Ukraine/Belarus/Lithuania...etc when they got to live as normal working human beings in NYC suburbs or random Ohio towns 0251
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This was such a fun idea. I hope i get more schizo stuff in future 2110
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026LARPing a bit in Vic3 by naming all states and cities in US after the places of the first mass migration target. So i present to you Bosniak-Virginia 2110
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In Romania you could legally report Nemets for racially profiling his Oromo pizza delivery guy 0110
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Romanian state/ruling oligarchy through a mix of boomerism, not really caring of backlash and the scare they got last round with Georgescu is pushing hilarious laws. From the old schizo campaign rulings, to now declaring everyone online with +100k followers a "Media figure" subject to media laws 1121
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The strait is now frankly a secondary driver of Saudi policy. Taiz is on the breaking point and it opens the road to Aden Houthis can't run a demobilized society, i simply do not believe it and think Riyadh does it to, they'll move to Najran if they achieve victory bsky.app/profile/aphc... 24313
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Americans look at 1.1 fertility rates in Mexico and Guatemala and mock Euros regarding pensions. You're 20km behind us on the same road buddy. "We'll do it different!" Sure you will buddy, sure you will. 5908
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very funny how all the old athletes in Romania are anti-EU nationalists. From tennis: Tiriac and Nastase are AUR voters. From football: Hagi and Gica Popescu are AUR voter, Dinu is an open stan of Codreanu, now i heard Piturca on tv yell that "the EU destroyed football" 391
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Need @bretdevereaux.bsky.social to give us a running commentary on this www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbT0...youtube.comThe Roman Empire with Indy Neidell | And So It BeginsYouTube video by The Roman Empire With Indy Neidell 160
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think Dragos Pislaru, a talk show head, expressed the feelings of about half the country, the old traditional anti-PSD circles, regarding a PSD-AUR coalition "Thank God, against PSD we know how to yell". Its a very true sentiment on the ground. Nobody knew well how to fight AUR in truth 170
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Far-right's AUR vice-leader Peiu telling a journo today that they are "pro-Western" and do not support lifting sanctions on Russia. The slow inevitable drift towards the PSD-AUR gov continues. Only Simion's egomaniac personality stands between it and if he's not careful he'll be quickly swept up 2140
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Even the USR ministers PSD hates are getting parliamentary hearing approval. The meme outcome may actually happen and pass (from 0% to 15% chance tbh) 160
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Romanian population is still on average generally positive about Trump, with the added caveat that ROs don't usually openly hate foreign politicians But i do not believe this perverse supplication and ass licking that every politician across the spectrum engages in is popular 1141
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Vic3 really has to update the US content bcs its horribly out of date and silly The issue is it can't model one of the great benefit of the civil war being Republicans could easily pass backlogs of legislation without southern states that fueled the industrial boom of late 19th century 3150
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Its amusing how Europe has taken a very good and active policy regarding Syria, meanwhile for all the propaganda of the Assadists 2 years later Erdogan still hasn't prayed in the Umayyed mosque 2301
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Republicans in Texas: Misinterpreting the 2024 result to mean that the body politic is that into White nationalist Volkism Republicans in Ohio: Misinterpreting the 2024 result to mean that the body politic isn't that into White nationalist Volkism 0190
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026-Using AI to do your homework is bad -Using AI do give your piece a check for grammar mistakes is perfectly fine, especially if you write in a 2nd-3rd...etc language. Nothing wrong either with letting it do a basic editors look as well, you can very well learn new words and phrases 090
Reposted by MihneaJack @jack-hoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Arnie's accent was so thick and unintelligible to contemporary audiences his dialogue was ADRed by someone else. These days, of course, the original is preferred. 032
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is about movies but a perfect encapsulation of this phenomena in modern world is to tell someone to go play the first Crysis Everything is mediocre about the game now, but then it was the trend setter that pushed the boundaries of the entire industry 370
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wasn't really blown away by Roshamon tbh. It's good but not really this masterpiece (And yes I got it) 391
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Praying to the Gods that the gov made from parties I support does not somehow stumble into a majority to form the govt 1110
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Imagine being a Japanese irredentist and all you got left yelling about are the hellholes of Sakhalin and Kurils 3162
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is also basically this angle here, where a lot of elites especially so in media no longer have the will/guts to actually defend themselves Meanwhile on the part of the population we all became vastly more Libertarian regarding the limits of state power, than say during Cold War. 2223
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Commies absorbing the defeat to RN is better long term. I don't buy the bigger win = 'bigger mandate'. It will be seen as "everyone can beat Melenchon big deal" 4191
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Moonstruck is a serviceable romcom until the very last scene where it transcends into an all time classic 010
Reposted by MihneaMihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is my Liberal Whig Republican coalition btw 2483
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The IRGC ops in Europe have all been in UK bcs its basically the sole country on the continent with a large Shia population (Iranian, but also Iraqis and Pakistani) sympathetic to the IR that it can tap into to build cells. 2253
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Had a debate on Twitter last week on it and decided to rewatch Moustapha Akkad's "The Message" in forever and see how i feel of it now Very much a piece of its time and of the generation from which the writers and director is from. It is charmingly pre-Salafi, even pre-Islamist 1130
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Big talk. The RO gov fell 100% on domestic grounds, this reeks of someone, probably Simion, fooling him 3294
Reposted by Mihneagranttharward.bsky.social @granttharward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Who is afraid of peace?" A leaflet dropped on Romania in summer 1944 saying only the Germans didn't want the war to end with quotes from Molotov claiming the USSR had no designs on Romania & FDR saying only guilty leaders will face punishment. Note the little RAF & USAAF planes. 0112
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026PSD mp says its Neo-Marxist to oppose mandatory school uniform, while alluding in same sentence why it was good Ceausescu enforced it (it was enforced pre-Ceausescu to but in Romania nobody remembers Dej/Groza...etc) 1111
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I can feel, smell and hear the 23-38 year old NYC journos writing this in a crappy Brooklyn restaurant 280
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sometimes its funny from what Unis you can stumble on great research. What do you mean Ohio state University has among the best work on 1945-58 Syrian history? 3210
Reposted by MihneaAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What Pollack was arguing in 'Armies of Sand' wasn't that Arabs can't fight. His core point was that structural configuration of Arab authoritarian regimes, whether monarchy, oligarch or military-led, makes it impossible to organise society in a way that it can fight effectively 79811
Reposted by MihneaLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s a powerful psychosexual aspect to middle class professionals’ urge to continuously devalue their selves and jobs in comparison to an imagined soot-stained working class hunk. 36219
Reposted by MihneaLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(This is a fetish.) 35513
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally got dragged into watching "Project Hail Mary" and it was pretty much good, but i feel weird seeing it so overhyped online as a masterpiece. 190
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached on the cotton plantations beyond the Atlantic by the descendants of those who were illiterate when London had an Ælfrǣd, Shakespeare and Cromwell." 3152
Reposted by MihneaAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Quite seriously, it's uncanny how many Ukrainian tech and drone firms come down to anecdotes along the lines of "so we met at a bar when escaping riot cops on Maidan, and hey wouldn't you know, we bumped into each other a few months later in a shootout in Mariupol"... 1366
