Adrian Monck
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📩 7 THINGS: Your weekly dose of geopolitical intelligence that actually makes sense.

Each Thursday, I break down 7 critical global developments – foreign policy, security trends, tech disruption. All done with just enough clarity to make an unpalatable world digestible. Subscribe below 🔗👇
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7 THINGS delivers weekly geopolitical insights with wit and clarity. Each edition unpacks seven critical global developments spanning foreign policy, security trends, tech influence, and strategic shi...
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Au contraire, but it seems to have fallen out of fashion… perhaps they see their elders as a booze-raddled example to avoid!
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Anecdotally, mine don’t even do fizzy water…
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“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant” – never gets old.
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We are all going to die no matter what we do. But that is no way to live. You have to admire flippant media commentary masquerading as wisdom.
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"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

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A photo of Bari Weiss over a headline: "Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed"
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New newsletter is out ($) 👇 – don’t be put off by the nerdy title.
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RIP to this crazy diamond. Incredibly demanding, quite bonkers, but also very kind.
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Lally Weymouth was known for her tough questioning of news subjects, and almost as much for her lavish parties. She died Monday of pancreatic cancer, at age 82.
Lally Weymouth, Who Questioned Dictators and Hosted High Society, Dies at 82
A member of the family that owned the Washington Post, Weymouth pursued a career in journalism.
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The redoubtable @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social with a useful reminder that you can't have your cake and eat it too. (Source: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/misu...)
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So Britain’s political Ragnarrok will also be a battle between serious and disappointing democrats vs comedic aspirant authoritarians. And match commentary will be of the good-natured, tongue-in-cheek variety. Until that light too goes out.
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Remember the catastrophic rock-ice avalanche of Blatten 🇨🇭 this May?
This incredible image comparison shows like nothing else the darkening of mountain peaks.
And along with the disappearance of snow, ice and permafrost, new hazards come along
@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
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12 Next crisis, the lock can be unpicked. Miller can deploy Guard units in hours. Officers who might resist have already been purged. Those promoted through Scheller’s system know what loyalty means.
a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says thank you and goodnight
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and says thank you and goodnight
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11 This is a toolkit: fitness standards that remove anyone on demand, promotions controlled by someone court-martialled for insubordination, and Miller’s HSC deciding when troops deploy domestically. Each piece is necessary.
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10 Maybe this is just civilian control working as designed. Remove policies that weakened readiness. Make sure generals are fit. Put someone willing to challenge bureaucracy in charge of promotions. But who’s been fired?Pattern’s pretty clear.
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9 In June, Trump federalised 4,200 California Guard troops without Governor’s consent. 700 Marines deployed. Federal judge ruled it violated the law barring military from domestic law enforcement, called it an attempt at ‘a national police force with the president as its chief’.
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8 Miller personally approves strikes on Venezuelan drug boats. Officials sometimes learn hours before attacks happen. That’s not how national security normally works. Defence, State, and intelligence coordinate through the NSC. Miller’s HSC bypasses that. He authorises military action directly.
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7 Stephen Miller now runs the Homeland Security Council. Trump’s first-day memo merged HSC/NSC functions. Miller controls immigration enforcement, counterterrorism, and domestic troop deployment. Rubio’s NSC handles foreign policy. Miller handles when military force gets used INSIDE America.
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6 The no beard stuff? Shaving waivers mostly go to Black service members. Razor bumps are a painful medical condition. A study from 2021 showed airmen with waivers got promoted slower. Hegseth isn’t fixing the discrimination, he’s making life harder for black servicemen.
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5 In September, Hegseth cancelled the Army’s Command Assessment Programme. CAP used cognitive tests, emotional intelligence scores, 360 feedback to pick commanders. Army data showed CAP actually selected white men more often than women or minorities. taskandpurpose.com/news/army-en...
Army axes promotion boards that weighed opinions of peers, subordinates for commanders
The Army's now-defunct Command Assessment Program considered how peers and subordinates view officers selected for command positions.
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4 Scheller was punished for criticising Biden’s team. Now he decides who advances. Officers who challenged Biden leadership are truth-tellers. Officers who might question Trump?