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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brazil is not the US. Current Brazilian political dynamics are very different from those of the US. You can't read anything across from one country to the other, either way.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My book has been catalogued by the Cape Town library system & is now available to lend at out local branch, Observatory Public Library! Also, my bio has the link to my website, where you can find links to online book stores in different countries, where you can buy it.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 28/09/2026

Wow. Check out the European numbers on favourable views of the US versus favourable views of China….

Screenshot showing poll of how 36 countries see the US and China. Large majority has a more favourable view of China than the US including most European contries

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hiking on the Steenburg Plateau, yesterday (Sunday 20/09/26). Glorious!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trump's continuing habit of issuing threats to all and sundry is, outside the US, is conveying, not power, strength and resolve, but insecurity and fear.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Under-appreciated, I think, is that the ideological ferment in US politics is undermining US political influence in especially the democratic world. 1) MAGA has already alienated most of the centre-right (and a lot of the democratic right) elsewhere; and, (contd:-)

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

At the beacon, on top of Kalk Bay peak, on Steenburg Plateau, within Metro Cape Town, Sunday 16 August. 5 hour 40+ minute, 7.3 km there-and-back hike with 262 m elevation gain (& then down again). I am still on a high from it!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

On Tuesday, 11 August, I had the great pleasure & privilege of presenting two copies of my verse novel, "The Lay of the Vixens", to Observatory Public Library, here in Observatory, Cape Town. The books were accepted by Senior Librarian Cleo.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have an author website! See link in my bio, above!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just an aside: one can, in principle, support Chris Nolan putting his own take on the Odyssey (Euripides, eg, put his own take on the myths -- see "The Trojan Women"), while also disliking, even rejecting, his take. There is no contradiction; the two positions are on different levels.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Belated 250th Birthday, USA! It is fortunate there is no secular equivalent to the religious ideas of the end-of-the-world, for Donald Trump is the anti-George Washington, rejecting everything GW embodied & embodying everything GW rejected. Otherwise many would fear the End Times were upon the US.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

History has shown, far beyond any doubt, that, while warriors may win battles, they almost always lose wars. On the other hand, while soldiers may lose battles, they almost always win wars. But US SecDef Hegseth is ignorant of war & of the history of war. Warriors are undisciplined, by definition.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Trump is to the American Republic what Sulla was to the Roman Republic (disregarding Sulla's violence) -- the leader who claimed to be restoring the Republic, while wrecking it, by despising & disregarding the constitution. That's what I fear. Rome never fully recovered from Sulla's rule.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

With Orban's crushing defeat in Hungary, will we see MAGA ideologues in the US adopt an ideology of MAGA*-in-one-country? (*National Conservatism/Christian Nationalism/whatever term they chose to use.)

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

As a Briton, I wonder if any of the hysteriacs who wanted the UK to join the Iran War & ranted that Starmer was humiliating the UK by keeping out, are now in any way abashed by the revelation of the Russian sub op off the UK & that what they wanted would have benefitted Putin.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Some are saying that Trump's bungled war against Iran has strengthened Putin. How? Putin has alienated the Gulf Arab states. The war has created an unprecedented alignment between Ukraine & the Gulf Arab states. It seems to me that Russia comes out of this weaker, while Ukraine comes out stronger.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

As a woman, I cannot help but point out that the white male he-man lethality-focused macho anti-woke (in practice, anti-woman, anti-African-American) Pentagon that Hegseth created, through his purges, has fallen flat on its collective face in its first test, against Iran.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Regarding terrorism worldwide: I have seen a repost of an argument that there is a difference between a neo-nazi murdering Jewish people & a "pro-Palestine" leftist murdering Jewish people. There is no difference. They are equally racist, equally evil.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

While naval specialists have long known it, the current Hormuz fiasco has brought to general attention the weird fact that, despite being by far the largest Western navy, the US Navy is not a full-spectrum navy, suffering from woefully inadequate MCM capability & having no specialised ASW escorts.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Macron's deployment of nearly the entire French fleet to the E Med & Arabian Sea is as irrational as Trump's attack on Iran: neither has a clear nor achievable political objective. As others have noted, it will take the French Navy "off-the-board" as far as deterring Russia, for a significant time.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Although I am no fan of UK PM Starmer, or the Labour Party, I cannot but feel that he is, given Trump's record of betraying allies & friends, right to keep the UK out of offensive operations against Iran, & stick with purely defensive missions. That this annoys Trump is irrelevant.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Recent events show that, in classical terms, the UK is a (de facto) republic and the US is an (elective) monarchy.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The person formerly known as Prince Andrew has been arrested by UK police, regarding the Epstein scandal. Yet in the US, there has still not been a single arrest of a prominent &/or powerful figure. Impunity rules in the US & damage to the country's image is huge. (Epstein engulfs both Dems & GOP.)

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The fundamental roots of European, & wider Western, civilisation are Greco-Roman Judeo-Christian. Oddly, many (most?) Americans who like to pontificate upon the subject of Western civilisation seem to forget the Greco-Roman part. Despite the US having a Senate!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It's a fascinating insight into cultural differences that, so far, all the powerful or prominent people who have "gone down in flames" following the latest release of Epstein documents have been in Europe. Of the many rich & prominent Americans mentioned, none yet has suffered any consequences.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I don't usually comment on internal politics, but what is going on in the US is certainly discrediting the 2nd Amendment. It obviously doesn't guarantee American freedoms & invoking it would only give a callous admin (regime?) the excuse it is looking for to invoke the Insurrection Act.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Republican Rome was an inspiration for the American republic. But, somehow, over the past ±50 years, America has slid into an Imperial form of govt, disguised until now by the Augustan prudence of its monarchs. But now the US has its first self-indulgent egotistical Emperor & the secret is out!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The news that the Swedish Armed Forces are going to acquire synthetic aperture radars from Finland's ICEYE is great! This is exactly the kind of concrete programme that shows that European countries are moving to reduce their dependence on the US, that we should look out for, rather than speeches.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I have been very struck by the fact that all-but-one of the posts I have seen on this platform about Trump's "Donroe Doctrine", whether pro- or anti-, completely ignores South America, except, sometimes, Colombia. (I could not access the exception, as I am not a subscriber to War on the Rocks.)

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I fear Trump is taking himself into a situation in which he'll have to take some form of action regarding Greenland. I hope I am wrong!

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So, a quick bit of research confirms that France has both optical & sigint spy satellites (3 each, it seems). But no radar satellites. To repeat, the UK has a programme to deploy optical (1 now in orbit) & radar satellites. But will London now accelerate this programme? Let's hope so.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

France & the UK have now both said that they stand with Denmark (& Greenland) against Trump's threats. But is there anything they (& others) could do to actively deter a US attack? Could/should they send troops? The numbers need not be great. Even a platoon each would carry heavy political weight.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Those criticising European countries about their muted responses to Trump's Venezuela strike have to remember that by far the top priority for the Europeans is the defence of Ukraine, & that keeping the US onside is still very important for that. Less important than it was, but not yet unneeded.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Trump's strike on Venezuela looks more like a scalping than a decapitation.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

1. Recently, I posted that those who sought a big blow-up between European leaders & President Trump were looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place, & that it was in the areas of policies, programmes & projects that they should be looking, for evidence of European self-assertion.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My "warm" take on the Trump-class "battleships" (BBGs, as they are being classified). They make sense only in terms of an anti-access/area denial strategy. An AA/AD strategy would be completely in line with VP Vance-led MAGA isolationism & with Trump's great powers spheres-of-interest mindset.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

On 21/12/25 in the "Sunday Telegraph", one of the UK's most conservative mainstream columnists, Simon Heffer, has penned an eviscerating attack on Donald Trump & asserted that the US can no longer be regarded as the leader of the free world. This is a very significant attitude shift towards the US.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The term to use to describe Trump's rule is Caesarism, not fascism.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I have a suspicion that "civilisational erasure" is actually the objective for Trump/MAGA when it comes to Western Europe. Western Europe's liberal, & therefore tolerant & inclusive, democracy, simply by existing, is an ideological threat to MAGA's narrow-minded, conformist & intolerant vision.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

1. Some European analysts are complaining that key national leaders in Europe are not responding vocally to President Trump's provocations. But this seems unreasonable to me. Increasing autonomy from the US is, in practice, a complex task. Trump can do a lot of damage to Euopean defence, still.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I am taking Trump's decision to authorise the export of Nvidia H200 chips to China to confirm that he has no intention whatsoever to confront Beijing, & that the next iteration of the NSS will betray Asian democracies just like the recently released one has betrayed European democracies.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's the festive season, so let me promote my 23 000 word epic poem (in free verse) about Amazons in an ancient world, " The Lay of the Vixens" :-

Front cover of the epic poem "The Lay of the Vixens" by Rebecca K Campbell.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Despite Trump's fulminations & threats, the G20 leaders meeting in South Africa have issued a "G20 Leaders Declaration". Most of it is waffle of course (these things usually are) but the fact it was issued is a pretty striking illustration of the decline of US influence in the world, under Trump.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I see that the leaders of the European powers, Japan, & Canada, plus the EU, have issued a joint statement that diplomatically (doesn't insult Trump) but clearly states that the proposed US-Russia "peace" plan is unacceptable, without (a lot of) reworking.

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Rebecca K Campbell @rebeccakcampbell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The "peace" plan that Trump is pushing Ukraine to accept is, if the reports about it are accurate, an appalling betrayal. The UK, France, Germany and the rest of Europe must show steadfast support for Ukraine & make it clear that Kyiv will have their support if the plan is rejected.

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