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Thomas Diez

@thomasdiez.bsky.social
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University of Tübingen professor interested in EU, Cyprus, Turkey, climate change, security, discourse, and all things IR. Love travel, nice hotels and good food.

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Institut für Europäische Politik e.V. @iep-berlin.de · 29/09/2026
🇪🇺 What kind of Europe do we want? In their new IEP Commentary, @thomasdiez.bsky.social & Ebru Turhan make the case for a new #CongressOfEurope – driven by civil society and focused on broader visions for European integration. 🔗 Read: tinyurl.com/congress-of-...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Online first: our Forum on Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War in @coco-journal.bsky.social. My contribution reflects on learning as hegemonic struggle & weaknesses of the EU's liberal project. Thanks to Y Kurnyshova & A Makarychev for bringing us together! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Forum: Learning from the Russo-Ukrainian War: Normative lessons in unnormative times - Yuliia Kurnyshova, Andrey Makarychev, Thomas Diez, Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz, Aliaksei Kazharski, Shota Kakaba...
This Forum discusses how different international actors learn different lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how the logics discernible behind these l...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I will be in Tartu next week to reflect on the normative, political and institutional dilemmas that haunt the development of EU security and defence policy - join if you are interested! skytte.ut.ee/en/event/sky...
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#SkytteTalks with Thomas Diez: “The Three Dilemmas of European Defence”
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A world with #international #law is by no means perfect. But a world in which those who can do ignore international law is even worse. I am grateful to colleagues for initiating this open letter to the German government. verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...
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Stellungnahme zur deutschen Außenpolitik im Zuge der Angriffe der USA und Israels auf den Iran
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Achievements of #US #Israel war so far: Hundreds killed. Millions displaced. World economy in disarray. Iran still able to attack. No revolution in sight. International law ridiculed. @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social strategy at its best. #madmen
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Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social
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Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The #populist #right is a master of #flipsiding established #concepts. Michal Krzyzanowski, Natalia Krzyzanowska, @jensrydgren.bsky.social have edited a special issue with pieces analysing this practice, including my analysis of double flipsiding of #security www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...
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Social Semiotics
Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...
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Social Semiotics
Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I see many people raving about @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social speech in Davos. It was no doubt a good one, but a reference to the #EU #GlobalStrategy where @nathalietocci.bsky.social introduced #PrincipledPragmatism as a core concept would have been appropriate. #Davos #WEC
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I am not sure why the #German #government is even seriously considering #Trump Peace Board plan. At least it's honest: crown the king, pay the money. And how the board in its composition is supposed to be more effective than the #UN, only Trump knows. #internationalorder #internationalorganisation
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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social
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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hopefully of interest! @hugoekstrom.bsky.social @stenhansson.bsky.social @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social @bolandeira.bsky.social @critdiscstuds.bsky.social @kurtsengul.bsky.social @journolinguist.bsky.social @discodiscourse.bsky.social @ylvahilda.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The statement by #EUHR @kajakallas.bsky.social on the US attack on #Venezuela is appalling. An attack on another country, whether by #Putin or #Trump, without #UNSC legitimisation is a gross violation of int'l law & needs clear condemnation, independent of what you think about the attacked regime.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Still need some reading for the winter break? Check out my latest piece on the "double flipsiding" of the #security #discourse out now as online first in a special issue of Social Semiotics edited by Michal Krzyzanowski, Natalia Krzyzanowska and Jens Rydgen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Double flipsiding: the liberalisation and illiberalisation of “Security”
This article examines the evolving discourse of security through the lens of “conceptual flipsiding.” Focusing on the notion of security as a “discursive nodal point,” the paper traces two major di...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Congratulations to #Erhürman and all my Turkish #Cypriot friends! Let's look to the future and see whether #Christodoulides is ready to dance
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Centre for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research @iratut.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
missed the plenary, made the point. @thomasdiez.bsky.social at #EWIS2025 on why international society needs to be studied from below — through the everyday, not just diplomacy. read more in the post ↓ #EverydayIR #EISA #InternationalStudies
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
War gerade in einem #ICE mit der Aufschrift "Wir rollen für #Europa". Oder so. Das ist doppelt falsch. In #Deutschland rollt man nicht mehr für Europa, sondern für #Grenzkontrollen. Und am Ende rollte der Zug gar nicht. Technischer Defekt an einer Tür. Branding allein nutzt halt auch nichts.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro... The main German news programme asks whether #Schengen is dead because #Poland is introducing border controls on Monday. But it's #Germany who will have killed it.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Eine von vielen Fragen derzeit an Julia Klöckner: hätten Sie @cansinkoektuerk.bsky.social auch dann des Saales verwiesen, wenn sie ein T-Shirt mit "Ukraine"-Aufschrift getragen hätte? Oder "Israel"? @bundestag.de
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Franz von Lucke @fvonlucke.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🚨Publication alert🚨: My new article 'Towards Orchestrating Normative Power in the Climate Crisis' is now available (OA). It's part of a SI by Ian Manners on 'Normative Power in the Planetary Organic Crisis' #EU #NormativePower #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Towards orchestrating normative power in the climate crisis - Franziskus von Lucke, 2025
The European Union has long presented itself as a key actor when it comes to tackling the climate crisis and has been called a climate leader or ‘green normativ...
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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor" #Friedensgutachten
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Friedensforscher sehen USA als "Unsicherheitsfaktor"
Im Friedensgutachten 2025 plädieren Experten für mehr Unabhängigkeit in der europäischen Verteidigung.
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Holger Nohr @holgernohr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Wir haben einen Innenminister, der nicht bereit ist Rechtsstaatlichkeit zu akzeptieren und - selbst nach einer Gerichtsentscheidung - rechtsstaatlich zu handeln ... Der Weg ist höchst gefährlich. www.tagesschau.de/inland/zurue...
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Trotz Gerichtsentscheidung: Dobrindt hält an Zurückweisungen fest
Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt hält trotz einer Gerichtsentscheidung an Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden an den Grenzen fest. Das Gericht habe eine Einzelfallentscheidung getroffen und verlange nur nac...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New book on #infrastructure and #international_relations out now - including my reflections on how infrastructural development has enabled (re)formations of #international_society. Check it out! @iratut.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Transnational Infrastructures and the Transformation of Global Orders
This book offers a multidisciplinary insight into the significance of infrastructural change for global orders.
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Skytte prize winners speak out www.ft.com/content/939b...
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Letter: Prize-winning political scientists speak out
From Francis Fukuyama and others
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Brave letter from three international students at Harvard on Trump’s assault on the university and the broader implications www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up.
Three student leaders on Trump’s attempts to throw them out of the country.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Can someone in the #EU or in the government of my country please find clear words of condemnation of what the #US #government is doing to its universities - and to the world? Imagine #Putin or #Erdoğan would be acting similarly. #standbyharvard @kajakallas.bsky.social @larsklingbeil.bsky.social
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Dagmar Vorlíček @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It was fun talking about infrastructures and global security at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Thanks for the invitation and curious questions and comments! @marcokrueger.bsky.social @kawezel.bsky.social @katharinakrause.bsky.social @thomasdiez.bsky.social
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ProfPTJ @profptj.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Amidst all the awfulness, it’s good to see two new books published on my Configurations series!
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Sad news: Joe Nye has passed away. www.belfercenter.org/collection/r...
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Remembering Joseph S. Nye
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Are secessionist entities in the post-Soviet space mere puppets in the hands of the Kremlin or do they have bargaining power of their own? Our latest PhD, Maximilian Ohle, argues the latter, even if this power is highly constrained. #Abkhazia #Transnistria @unituebingen.bsky.social
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So lange die Kirchen dazu aufgerufen haben, #CDU #CSU zu wählen, war das offensichtlich seelsorgerischer als sich gegen #Klimawandel und für #Geflüchtete einzusetzen. Es war nicht so geplant, aber grauenvoller hätte Julia #Klöckner den Tod von #Franziskus kaum kommentieren können
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Resist any intrusion into the freedom of universities. Anywhere.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wie kann es sein, dass ein Zug gerade eben noch pünktlich ist im #DBNavigator und dann von jetzt auf nachher 10 Minuten Verspätung hat? Wozu hat man die App überhaupt?? #RB74 @deutschebahn.com
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News About Turkey-NAT @newsaboutturkey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"...One of the clearest signs that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has abandoned democratic accountability and embraced full autocracy is his quiet yet deliberate retreat from the economic populism that once underpinned his rule..."👇
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
⏰ Upcoming deadlines ⏰ 💸 Dissertation Support Grant applications are due on 11 April (in 3 days!) 🗳️ Members can vote in the Governing Board Elections until 21 April 📋 EWIS 2025 registration closes on 22 April
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Let me share something that has annoyed me. When I was asked to contribute to this CATS Network Perspectives in January, I scoured the web for analyses of the economic costs of the trade war that I suspected Trump would trigger, but I couldn’t find any.+ www.cats-network.eu/publication/...
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How will the Trump administration’s protectionist policies impact Turkish-American relations?
After a year marked by elections around the globe, the elected governments are adopting new policies and reshaping the global environment. Most...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My wonderful wife, Bettina Ahrens-Diez, was nominated unanimously yesterday to become the @spdde.bsky.social candidate for the next state #elections in March 2026 in the District of #Freudenstadt. Thank you, Freudenstadt, and fingers crossed!!!!
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
On the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, and considering current debates in some #NATO countries, we ought to remember that the Ottawa Agreement banning #landmines is one of the great achievements of international society! www.un.org/en/observanc...
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International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action | United Nations
On 8 December 2005, the General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
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Elvira Rosert @elvirarosert.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Breaking: Die Politikwissenschaft nimmt das Konzept „Dumbest motherfuckers alive“ in den Fachjargon auf, um die Realität angemessen beschreiben zu können.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The #EU defined itself as a #normativepower. Core: a commitment to #ICC. Now #Hungary hosts #Netanyahu against whom #ICC has issued an arrest warrant. What do we hear from @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu? From member states? #Merz: #Netanyahu won't be arrested in Germany. Our #European dream is dead.
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Middle East: Netanyahu defies ICC warrant, lands in Hungary – DW – 04/03/2025
The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, which Hungarian PM Viktor Orban called politically motivated. DW has the latest.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
If you are concerned about security, support the Turkish people and not its terror government. You are hammering the last nails into the coffin of EU credibility. #freeimanoglu #justice @eppgroup.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The #EU is paying the system of an unashamed autocrat that uses terror to suppress its people to hold back migrants. We need to stop that nonsense immediately. @cb-ekremimamoglu.bsky.social #türkiye
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Interview today with my colleague Andreas Hasenclever and myself in our local newspaper. In all the discussion about arming ourselves, we need to ask which #peace and which #Europe er are fighting for #ukraine #russia #war www.swp.de/lokales/tueb... @iratut.bsky.social
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Tübinger Friedensforscher über Ukraine-Konflikt und Trump: „Selbst wenn Putin diesen Krieg gewinnt, hat er verloren“
Was sind die Voraussetzungen für Frieden in der Ukraine? Und was muss Europa tun, um Sicherheit zu wahren, wenn auf die USA kein Verlass mehr ist? Ein Gespräch mit den Tübinger Friedens- und Konfliktf...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Where is a strong #EU statement on what is happening in #Türkiye??? Why is there nothing in the @europeancouncil.bsky.social conclusions? #imamoglu #fightfordemocracy
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
First world problems. @lufthansa.bsky.social does a @bahn.de on me. Flight from Oslo cancelled. An involuntary night in Norway, missing an already paid night in Cologne, and a lot of hassle. KLM yesterday was on time, clean plane with drinks and snack.
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
At least someone is speaking up. #Türkiye #Imamoglu www.rnd.de/politik/klin...
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Klingbeil: Festnahme von Istanbuls Bürgermeister ist „Angriff auf die Demokratie“
Wenige Tage vor seiner Ernennung zum Präsidentschaftskandidaten wurde Ekrem Imamoglu, Bürgermeister von Istanbul, festgenommen. Die türkische Opposition spricht von einem „Putschversuch“. Auch der deu...
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Thomas Diez @thomasdiez.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
One step closer to dictatorship. The people of #turkiye deserve better. #imamoglu
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Revan @revan.eurosky.social · 03/03/2025
"Don't destroy your own economy and your own bureaucracy; only a complete dumbass would do that"
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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