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robingelfving.bsky.social
@robingelfving.bsky.social
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Program Director in leadership programs, Doctoral researcher in literature. "Reading good fiction makes better leaders". Interest: defence in general, navy in particular
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robingelfving.bsky.social
"The American government’s most prominent foreign-policy theorists have transferred their domestic obsessions to the outside world, projecting their own fears onto others". Read Anne Applebaum's take on the Trump administration's National Strategy Document. It is analytical, chilly and scary.
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 14d
If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them?

Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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haydencenter.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat
Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model
The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.  
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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casamarianne.bsky.social
Avoimet rantanäkymät saavat kaupunkisuunnitelijat käymään ylikierroksilla. Onko maanrakentajilla osaa näihin projekteihin? Rumalta näyttää. #helsinki #kaupunkisuunnittelu #asemakaava

www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
Jätkäsaari | Merenrantaan suunnitellaan toimistotaloja Helsingissä, yli 1 500 vastustaa
Korkeat rakennukset rikkoisivat Crusellinsillan vinoköysirakenteen hienon siluetin, kuntalaisaloitteessa sanotaan.
www.hs.fi
October 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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ilvestoomas.bsky.social
This, by Tom Nichols, @radiofreetom.bsky.social is exceptionally good:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump Is Acting as a Proxy for Putin
His proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
www.theatlantic.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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ilvestoomas.bsky.social
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...
I Trained With Russian Diplomats. I Can Tell You How They Work - The Moscow Times
Opinion | Last week, while Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, the Kremlin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev landed in Washington with an offer of economic cooperation.
www.themoscowtimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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ilvestoomas.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Opinion | The ‘Free World’ Is Gone and There’s No Turning Back
No longer is there any pretense that the United States stands for the ideals that inspired it for 250 years. Europe and the rest of the world need to adjust.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
ICYMI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...
Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US
YouTube video by Gregory Mullins
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March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
robingelfving.bsky.social
Here one decent take on the US meltdown of decency, democracy and dignity.

snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
robingelfving.bsky.social
Helsinki ja helsinkiläiset Ukrainan, oikeuden, demokratian ja valon puolesta / Helsingfors och Helsingforsarna för Ukraina, för rättvisa, demokrati och en fred som Ukraina är med och bestämmer om / Helsinki and its citizens for Ukraine, democracy and justice. SLAVA UKRAINI
February 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it.
understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
understandingwar.org
February 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
The premise of American foreign policy to Ukraine, today, is one of grievance. It is worth patiently considering the proposals. They reveal little about Ukraine, but much about America in February 2025.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...
"Recoup the costs"
The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
robingelfving.bsky.social
Harvinaista herkkua: ei selityksiä vaan anteeksipyyntö ja vastuunkantoa. YIT Road ei hymistele Helsingin kirsikkapuiston mokaansa. Hyvä näin. "haluamme välittää pahoittelumme niin tilaajalle kuin puistoa käyttäville kaupunkilaisille." www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...
Lukijan mielipide | Kirsikkapuistossa tapahtui virhe – anteeksi
Helsingin kaupunki ei ole näin kattavia hoitoleikkauksia Kirsikkapuistoon tilannut. Urakassa on tämän osalta tapahtunut äärimmäisen valitettava virhe, josta haluamme välittää pahoittelumme niin tilaaj...
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January 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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auonsson.bsky.social
Washington Post is being accused of peddling Russia-aligned disinformation/falsification.

Not by me, but by Jukka Savolainen, Finnish coast guard commander and presently working at "European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats"
Asiantuntija tyrmää uudet väitteet Itämeren kaapelivaurioista: ”Kyllä tämä on aika isoa peliä”
Washington Postin uutinen Itämeren kaapelirikoista on Hybridiosaamis­keskuksen johtajan mukaan tyystin perätön.
www.is.fi
January 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"Pete Hegseth: The Short Course – 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth: The Short Course
13 Steps to National Destruction
snyder.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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casamarianne.bsky.social
Love and War is a non fiction work about the war in Ukraine. Creators Jakob Fälling and Ole Samsøe. The work portrays six ordinary Ukrainians and the stories of their lives during the invasion
#LuxHelsinki #SlavaUkraini #Helsinki
January 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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dlgenealogist.bsky.social
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
December 21, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Interview with Louise Bourgeois
December 12, 2024 at 5:22 PM
robingelfving.bsky.social
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää - Glad självständighetsdag! Aamun rasti oli seppeleenlasku Sinisen Reservin kanssa Helsingin Miinanraivaajien puolesta Miinanraivaajien monumentilla Helsingin Katajanokalla.
December 6, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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casamarianne.bsky.social
Kirja juhlii mielikuvituksesta saatavaa lohtua Vaikka olisi kuinka heikoilla, sisältään voi löytää voimaa taistella paremman huomisen puolesta epäoikeudenmukaisessa ja epätasa-arvoisessa maailmassa Ihmiskuntaa koettelevat sodat, ympäristökatastrofit, poliittinen kahtiajako

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Finlandia-palkinto | Jo toisen Finlandia-palkinnon saanut huippukirjailija nostaa esiin suomalaisen rasismin
Finlandia-voittajan valinneen Alma Pöystin mukaan Pajtim Statovcin Lehmä synnyttää yöllä on ”knock out”, jota vastaan ei voi puolustautua.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:21 PM