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"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
Ten weeks that shook the world
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
www.ft.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...
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I remember.
Three weeks after Bucha, in April 2022, I had been there with a delegation and talked with the mayor.
It was my first return to Ukraine since the start of russia's all-out war.
We are bound by an oath: never to remain silent, never to forgive, and to ensure that justice is done.
Three weeks after Bucha, in April 2022, I had been there with a delegation and talked with the mayor.
It was my first return to Ukraine since the start of russia's all-out war.
We are bound by an oath: never to remain silent, never to forgive, and to ensure that justice is done.
April 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I remember.
Three weeks after Bucha, in April 2022, I had been there with a delegation and talked with the mayor.
It was my first return to Ukraine since the start of russia's all-out war.
We are bound by an oath: never to remain silent, never to forgive, and to ensure that justice is done.
Three weeks after Bucha, in April 2022, I had been there with a delegation and talked with the mayor.
It was my first return to Ukraine since the start of russia's all-out war.
We are bound by an oath: never to remain silent, never to forgive, and to ensure that justice is done.
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“An Army webpage from 2008 that lauded the 60th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s 1948 integration order has disappeared. It was available as recently as last year, web archives show” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...
Pentagon Removes Webpages Celebrating Racial Integration of the Armed Forces
Several webpages that celebrated the armed forces’ history of racial integration have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“An Army webpage from 2008 that lauded the 60th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s 1948 integration order has disappeared. It was available as recently as last year, web archives show” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...
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FT Exclusive: The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces. www.ft.com/content/c58f...
March 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
FT Exclusive: The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces. www.ft.com/content/c58f...
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My proposed German neologism: Weltmerz. Noun. "The feeling that reality might turn out slightly better than Europeans are accustomed to, which creates a strange mood of cautious optimism on security and defense."
March 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My proposed German neologism: Weltmerz. Noun. "The feeling that reality might turn out slightly better than Europeans are accustomed to, which creates a strange mood of cautious optimism on security and defense."
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Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
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"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu
Trump’s heist in broad daylight
[FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet
on.ft.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu
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I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.
This is incredible. Knock yourself out, Russian intel services. “A person familiar with the matter …said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.” Cc @ciaranm.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I think Russian intelligence services cannot believe their good fortune at everything that is happening right now. This is a bonanza across the board. The vicious attack on Ukraine, nutters at the FBI, Gabbard at DNI, shredding of CI capabilities. A monumental tragedy for the West.