Jim Townsend
@jteurope.bsky.social
Podcaster, think tanker, educator and consultant on all things Europe/NATO. Recovering Pentagon Druid!! @jteurope on that other platform.
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en @akendalltaylor.bsky.social
bespreken met Celeste Wallander over hoe het achter de schermen toeging bij Amerikaanse hulp aan Oekraïne, heel interessant om te weten wat de doelen zijn van VS en hoever ze wilden gaan.
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en @akendalltaylor.bsky.social
bespreken met Celeste Wallander over hoe het achter de schermen toeging bij Amerikaanse hulp aan Oekraïne, heel interessant om te weten wat de doelen zijn van VS en hoever ze wilden gaan.
open.spotify.com/episode/2xP5...
The Hidden Past and Uncertain Future of the U.S. and Ukraine with Celeste Wallander
Brussels Sprouts · Episode
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April 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Luistertip: @jteurope.bsky.social
en @akendalltaylor.bsky.social
bespreken met Celeste Wallander over hoe het achter de schermen toeging bij Amerikaanse hulp aan Oekraïne, heel interessant om te weten wat de doelen zijn van VS en hoever ze wilden gaan.
open.spotify.com/episode/2xP5...
en @akendalltaylor.bsky.social
bespreken met Celeste Wallander over hoe het achter de schermen toeging bij Amerikaanse hulp aan Oekraïne, heel interessant om te weten wat de doelen zijn van VS en hoever ze wilden gaan.
open.spotify.com/episode/2xP5...
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Washington Journal
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Jim Townsend @jteurope.bsky.social, adjunct senior fellow CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, to discuss Russo-Ukraine war, Trump Regime's effort to negotiate Ukraine surrender.
WATCH: tinyurl.com/59jzr67h
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Jim Townsend @jteurope.bsky.social, adjunct senior fellow CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, to discuss Russo-Ukraine war, Trump Regime's effort to negotiate Ukraine surrender.
WATCH: tinyurl.com/59jzr67h
May 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Washington Journal
#CSPAN #CSPANWJ
Skeet at @c-span.bsky.social and cspanwj.bsky.social
Jim Townsend @jteurope.bsky.social, adjunct senior fellow CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, to discuss Russo-Ukraine war, Trump Regime's effort to negotiate Ukraine surrender.
WATCH: tinyurl.com/59jzr67h
#CSPAN #CSPANWJ
Skeet at @c-span.bsky.social and cspanwj.bsky.social
Jim Townsend @jteurope.bsky.social, adjunct senior fellow CNAS Transatlantic Security Program, to discuss Russo-Ukraine war, Trump Regime's effort to negotiate Ukraine surrender.
WATCH: tinyurl.com/59jzr67h
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🎙️New Brussels Sprouts🇨🇦
@kimnossal.bsky.social and @elizabethre.bsky.social join
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss the recent Canadian elections and implications for Canada’s foreign policy. www.cnas.org/publications...
@kimnossal.bsky.social and @elizabethre.bsky.social join
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss the recent Canadian elections and implications for Canada’s foreign policy. www.cnas.org/publications...
Canada and Carney’s New American Approach
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
www.cnas.org
May 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🎙️New Brussels Sprouts🇨🇦
@kimnossal.bsky.social and @elizabethre.bsky.social join
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss the recent Canadian elections and implications for Canada’s foreign policy. www.cnas.org/publications...
@kimnossal.bsky.social and @elizabethre.bsky.social join
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss the recent Canadian elections and implications for Canada’s foreign policy. www.cnas.org/publications...
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On Friday I took part in the @cnas.bsky.social Brussels Sprouts podcast with @camillegrand.bsky.social, @akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss America, Ukraine and European security.
www.cnas.org/publications...
www.cnas.org/publications...
Can Europe Fight Back with Shashank Joshi and Camille Grand
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
www.cnas.org
March 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
On Friday I took part in the @cnas.bsky.social Brussels Sprouts podcast with @camillegrand.bsky.social, @akendalltaylor.bsky.social and @jteurope.bsky.social to discuss America, Ukraine and European security.
www.cnas.org/publications...
www.cnas.org/publications...
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@camillegrand.bsky.social on Brussels Sprouts with @jteurope.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/b...
Can Europe Fight Back with Shashank Joshi and Camille Grand
Podcast Episode · Brussels Sprouts · 07/03/2025 · 1h 13m
podcasts.apple.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
@camillegrand.bsky.social on Brussels Sprouts with @jteurope.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/b...
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The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
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Joined @hoanssolo.bsky.social, @cnas.bsky.social, @akendalltaylor.bsky.social, @nlokker.bsky.social, and @jteurope.bsky.social for a Brussels Sprouts discussion on the 🇻🇪🇺🇦 war and what 🇪🇺 is up to given the erratic nature of 🇺🇸 foreign policy.
www.cnas.org/publications...
www.cnas.org/publications...
Can Ukraine and Europe Win Alone? with Gustav Gressel and Franz-Stefan Gady
Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.
www.cnas.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Joined @hoanssolo.bsky.social, @cnas.bsky.social, @akendalltaylor.bsky.social, @nlokker.bsky.social, and @jteurope.bsky.social for a Brussels Sprouts discussion on the 🇻🇪🇺🇦 war and what 🇪🇺 is up to given the erratic nature of 🇺🇸 foreign policy.
www.cnas.org/publications...
www.cnas.org/publications...
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www.wsj.com/world/trump-... Is Trump's embrace of Putin a serious plan to split the Russia-China entente? Possible Answers: a "reverse Nixon," "the reverse of a 'reverse Nixon,'" a "reverse Kissinger"(@jteurope.bsky.social), or simply "a fantasy," as Admiral Paparo has said. @yarotrof.bsky.social
Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing
Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.
www.wsj.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
www.wsj.com/world/trump-... Is Trump's embrace of Putin a serious plan to split the Russia-China entente? Possible Answers: a "reverse Nixon," "the reverse of a 'reverse Nixon,'" a "reverse Kissinger"(@jteurope.bsky.social), or simply "a fantasy," as Admiral Paparo has said. @yarotrof.bsky.social
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Luistertip: Hal Brands bespreekt samen met
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social en @jteurope.bsky.social
waarom geopolitiek Eurazië zo belangrijk is en wat we kunnen leren van geopolitieke denkers zoals Rooseveld & Spykman hoe hiermee om te gaan!
open.spotify.com/episode/6G6b...
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social en @jteurope.bsky.social
waarom geopolitiek Eurazië zo belangrijk is en wat we kunnen leren van geopolitieke denkers zoals Rooseveld & Spykman hoe hiermee om te gaan!
open.spotify.com/episode/6G6b...
The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World with Hal Brands
Brussels Sprouts · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Luistertip: Hal Brands bespreekt samen met
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social en @jteurope.bsky.social
waarom geopolitiek Eurazië zo belangrijk is en wat we kunnen leren van geopolitieke denkers zoals Rooseveld & Spykman hoe hiermee om te gaan!
open.spotify.com/episode/6G6b...
@akendalltaylor.bsky.social en @jteurope.bsky.social
waarom geopolitiek Eurazië zo belangrijk is en wat we kunnen leren van geopolitieke denkers zoals Rooseveld & Spykman hoe hiermee om te gaan!
open.spotify.com/episode/6G6b...
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Excellent episode with the latest on transatlantic relations with @mijrahman.bsky.social
& Stephen Erlanger
@jteurope.bsky.social
Andrea Kendall Taylor w/ the great questions
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& Stephen Erlanger
@jteurope.bsky.social
Andrea Kendall Taylor w/ the great questions
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Trump World Takes on Europe
Podcast Episode · Brussels Sprouts · 02/07/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Excellent episode with the latest on transatlantic relations with @mijrahman.bsky.social
& Stephen Erlanger
@jteurope.bsky.social
Andrea Kendall Taylor w/ the great questions
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
& Stephen Erlanger
@jteurope.bsky.social
Andrea Kendall Taylor w/ the great questions
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
At the protest in Washington
February 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
At the protest in Washington
The resistance begins! Protests erupt in front of the Capitol in Washington.
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The resistance begins! Protests erupt in front of the Capitol in Washington.
This is an important piece. No matter the future shape of the US relationship with its European allies, Europe needs to stand on its own feet in defense and economic development. A stronger and more independent Europe doesn’t have to weaken the transatlantic bond.
Can American abandonment help Europe?
Read @camillegrand.bsky.social's insights in @foreignaffairs.com👇
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Read @camillegrand.bsky.social's insights in @foreignaffairs.com👇
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Can American Abandonment Help Europe?
The continent has a chance to address its own weaknesses.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This is an important piece. No matter the future shape of the US relationship with its European allies, Europe needs to stand on its own feet in defense and economic development. A stronger and more independent Europe doesn’t have to weaken the transatlantic bond.
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Let’s make 2025 the year in which other Europeans and NATO become more like the Finns.
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
econ.st/4gBufbL
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
econ.st/4gBufbL
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
Russian-linked attacks on undersea infrastructure are rising
econ.st
January 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Let’s make 2025 the year in which other Europeans and NATO become more like the Finns.
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
econ.st/4gBufbL
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
econ.st/4gBufbL
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh... NATO - News: NATO to enhance military presence in the Baltic Sea, 30-Dec.-2024. NATO is on the move; I hope this is just the beginning. We need a naval task group out there.
NATO to enhance military presence in the Baltic Sea
Allies met today (30 December 2024) at NATO Headquarters to consult on the security of critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, following damage to undersea cables connecting Estonia and Finland on ...
www.nato.int
December 31, 2024 at 4:45 PM
www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh... NATO - News: NATO to enhance military presence in the Baltic Sea, 30-Dec.-2024. NATO is on the move; I hope this is just the beginning. We need a naval task group out there.
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Good Lord — the number of things on which he had no particular expertise but which Rickover confidently asserted to advise the President! It can be no less true of military leaders than broligarchs to believe that being good at one thing makes you good at everything.
December 31, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Good Lord — the number of things on which he had no particular expertise but which Rickover confidently asserted to advise the President! It can be no less true of military leaders than broligarchs to believe that being good at one thing makes you good at everything.
RIP Jimmy Carter. A life well lived.
December 29, 2024 at 9:36 PM
RIP Jimmy Carter. A life well lived.
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From the Norwegian PM's biannual summary, given on December 19th.
This wasn't widely reported but a commentator in Aftenposten picked it up:
"We must be prepared for serious incidents, also on Norwegian soil."
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...
This wasn't widely reported but a commentator in Aftenposten picked it up:
"We must be prepared for serious incidents, also on Norwegian soil."
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...
December 29, 2024 at 6:41 PM
From the Norwegian PM's biannual summary, given on December 19th.
This wasn't widely reported but a commentator in Aftenposten picked it up:
"We must be prepared for serious incidents, also on Norwegian soil."
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...
This wasn't widely reported but a commentator in Aftenposten picked it up:
"We must be prepared for serious incidents, also on Norwegian soil."
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...
NATO needs to deploy its standing naval force to patrol the Baltic cable area and establish presence. Putin is testing both the US during the transition and NATO unity. We must respond. If nato cannot the Joint Expeditionary Force should.
December 29, 2024 at 8:47 PM
NATO needs to deploy its standing naval force to patrol the Baltic cable area and establish presence. Putin is testing both the US during the transition and NATO unity. We must respond. If nato cannot the Joint Expeditionary Force should.
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An #AltGov had joined the fray. As x2 federal employees have been doxed of late. There are many at risk. While we enjoyed complaining about other civil service, they are who have kept our government working in a stable fashion from admin to admin. They are people who do believe in serving democracy.
I am currently suing four governmental entities for causing harm to my clients.
Governmental immunity makes it difficult, but I love doing it.
I’m not sure what the next four years will bring, but if needed, I will be here.
Governmental immunity makes it difficult, but I love doing it.
I’m not sure what the next four years will bring, but if needed, I will be here.
an american flag with the words " freedom from corruption " above it
ALT: an american flag with the words " freedom from corruption " above it
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM
An #AltGov had joined the fray. As x2 federal employees have been doxed of late. There are many at risk. While we enjoyed complaining about other civil service, they are who have kept our government working in a stable fashion from admin to admin. They are people who do believe in serving democracy.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on Blue Sky!!
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on Blue Sky!!
Life is not one damn thing after another,” he wrote, “it is the same damn thing over and over.” George F. Will
November 27, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Life is not one damn thing after another,” he wrote, “it is the same damn thing over and over.” George F. Will