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Who Broke The World?

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A newsletter covering global politics and history — the decisions, the ideas and the identities that made today's world, and how the trail usually leads back to Europe. whobroketheworld.substack.com

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Who Broke The World? @whobroketheworld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week’s Damage Report is coming in late, but there’s a very good reason for it, and you might have already guessed it — it’s the Belgrade funeral of a notorious war criminal. With or without honors? Read the rest in the latest Damage Report:
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Damage Report #2 — Tuesday, September 8, 2026
In this roundup: Serbia buried Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić to much chagrin, Niger's Moscow-backed junta nearly lost Niamey to its own officers, and Buenos Aires again invoked the Falklands.
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Who Broke The World? @whobroketheworld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
WBTW is kicking off Damage Control, a brand-new roundup of the most important stories of the past seven days. Last week, a Bosnian Serb war criminal died at a UN prison, the Iran war crossed the six-month mark with no end in sight, and Syria was taken off the US state sponsors of terror list.
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Damage Report #1 — Monday, August 31, 2026
Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal died at a UN prison, the Iran war crossed the six-month mark with no end in sight, and Syria was taken of the US state sponsors of terror list.
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Who Broke The World? @whobroketheworld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Spanish authorities said tonight that practically everyone who entered Ceuta on Thursday — some 60,000 people — went back to Morocco. Tens of thousands don’t self-organize like that. They don't illegally enter a country or depart so quickly and in such numbers. So, what actually happened?
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All of Spain’s foreign policy enemies gathered in one place — Ceuta
Sometime around dawn on Thursday, footage began circulating online of people swimming around the Tarajal beach in Ceuta, the Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa bordering Morocco, som...
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Who Broke The World? @whobroketheworld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Back in June, a section of the Autobahn blew up in record heat, leaving chunks of concrete all over the road. The media went into a frenzy, and Germans were yet again irked by the failure of their famed engineering. But why is Germany’s highway made of concrete and not asphalt? Find out here:
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Who’s to blame for the exploding Autobahn? The Nazis and the Soviets, of course
There’s nothing like Germans getting worked up over the failures of their “unmatched” infrastructure — but no one expected to see the day a German motorway exploded and fell apart in chunks all on its...
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Aleksandar Brezar @brezaleksandar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In case you thought the uproar over Las Malvinas was limited to UK-Argentinian relations, here's a look back at another World Cup — the one in 1982 — and how it was nearly overshadowed by a complicated web of geopolitical maneuvers involving Spain, France and the European Community. Read more:
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Two World Cups and One Falklands War
On Wednesday night after Argentina beat England in the World Cup semifinal in Atlanta, the team’s attacking midfielder Giovani Lo Celso was handed a banner from the elated fans in stands with the insc...
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