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Freed From a Belarus Prison, a Nobel Peace Laureate Experiences ‘Oxygen Intoxication’ by Valerie Hopkins
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...
Freed From a Belarus Prison, a Nobel Peace Laureate Experiences ‘Oxygen Intoxication’
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Freed From a Belarus Prison, a Nobel Peace Laureate Experiences ‘Oxygen Intoxication’ by Valerie Hopkins
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/w...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress. Trump lessons, chapter 1776
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress. Trump lessons, chapter 1776
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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On balance, a good outcome.
- Ukraine financed for next two years so not ‘forced’ to accept a bad deal.
- we avoid trap of ‘bridging solutions’ and combining purely nations contributions.
- EU foreign policy gets stronger by normalising use of QMV and enhanced cooperation
- Ukraine financed for next two years so not ‘forced’ to accept a bad deal.
- we avoid trap of ‘bridging solutions’ and combining purely nations contributions.
- EU foreign policy gets stronger by normalising use of QMV and enhanced cooperation
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
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December 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
On balance, a good outcome.
- Ukraine financed for next two years so not ‘forced’ to accept a bad deal.
- we avoid trap of ‘bridging solutions’ and combining purely nations contributions.
- EU foreign policy gets stronger by normalising use of QMV and enhanced cooperation
- Ukraine financed for next two years so not ‘forced’ to accept a bad deal.
- we avoid trap of ‘bridging solutions’ and combining purely nations contributions.
- EU foreign policy gets stronger by normalising use of QMV and enhanced cooperation
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UNREMARKABLE POSTCARD SERIES, No. 104.
Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.
Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.
December 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
UNREMARKABLE POSTCARD SERIES, No. 104.
Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.
Grand & Main. El Segundo, Calif. 1950s.
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And so with a wimper, the EU scraps the ban on internal-combustion engines from 2035. The new rules are an incomprehensible fudge that only lobbyists will understand.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And so with a wimper, the EU scraps the ban on internal-combustion engines from 2035. The new rules are an incomprehensible fudge that only lobbyists will understand.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
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#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
"Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation."
If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."
"Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation."
If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
#GVerse via @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
"Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation."
If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."
"Tonight, we learned the Pentagon is escalating its review of me into "an official command investigation."
If #Shit4Brains or #WhiskyLeaks think they can stop me from doing my job and serving the American people, they've got the wrong guy."
Ukraine Plan Calls For Enhanced Military, With U.S. and European Backup. Our take. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
Ukraine Plan Calls For Enhanced Military, With U.S. and European Backup
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ukraine Plan Calls For Enhanced Military, With U.S. and European Backup. Our take. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
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🎥 Now available
Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia
Michael Kimmage speaks with @jilldougherty.bsky.social and @stevenerlanger.bsky.social about reporting on Russia across decades of political change.
Watch on YouTube:
🔗 youtu.be/bIQ9Sa6CzJM
#KennanConversations #KennanInstitute
Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia
Michael Kimmage speaks with @jilldougherty.bsky.social and @stevenerlanger.bsky.social about reporting on Russia across decades of political change.
Watch on YouTube:
🔗 youtu.be/bIQ9Sa6CzJM
#KennanConversations #KennanInstitute
Reporting on and from Russia with Jill Dougherty and Steven Erlanger
YouTube video by The Kennan Institute
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🎥 Now available
Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia
Michael Kimmage speaks with @jilldougherty.bsky.social and @stevenerlanger.bsky.social about reporting on Russia across decades of political change.
Watch on YouTube:
🔗 youtu.be/bIQ9Sa6CzJM
#KennanConversations #KennanInstitute
Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia
Michael Kimmage speaks with @jilldougherty.bsky.social and @stevenerlanger.bsky.social about reporting on Russia across decades of political change.
Watch on YouTube:
🔗 youtu.be/bIQ9Sa6CzJM
#KennanConversations #KennanInstitute
The Turbulent Times of Friedrich Merz
excellent profile by Jim Tankersley
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...
excellent profile by Jim Tankersley
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...
The Turbulent Times of Friedrich Merz
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Turbulent Times of Friedrich Merz
excellent profile by Jim Tankersley
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...
excellent profile by Jim Tankersley
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/w...
Focused More on Power Outages, Ukrainians See U.S. Peace Push as Noise. By Kim Barker
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
Focused More on Power Outages, Ukrainians See U.S. Peace Push as Noise
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Focused More on Power Outages, Ukrainians See U.S. Peace Push as Noise. By Kim Barker
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
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This week one world review: Putin disappoints Trump on Ukraine, Finger pointing on boat strikes, and how awful Europe really is. With Carla Robbins, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social, and @matthewkaminski.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
World Review: Putin Says No. Strikes in the Caribbean. Trump Berates Europe
A synopsis of this week's edition of World Review
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This week one world review: Putin disappoints Trump on Ukraine, Finger pointing on boat strikes, and how awful Europe really is. With Carla Robbins, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social, and @matthewkaminski.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
Trump Wanted Ukraine to Cede Land to Russia. Ukraine Has Another Offer. Our take
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
Trump Wanted Ukraine to Cede Land to Russia. Ukraine Has Another Offer.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Trump Wanted Ukraine to Cede Land to Russia. Ukraine Has Another Offer. Our take
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/w...
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
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COME ON THIS HAS TO BE A SPOOF
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
COME ON THIS HAS TO BE A SPOOF
Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View. by Andrew Higgins www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...
Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View. by Andrew Higgins www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/w...
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians. by Dan Barry. (william kennedy)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians. by Dan Barry. (william kennedy)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...
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Europe needs to get real about China url:https://encompass-europe.com/comment/europe-needs-to-get-real-about-china @cerianbond.bsky.social @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Europe needs to get real about China url:https://encompass-europe.com/comment/europe-needs-to-get-real-about-china @cerianbond.bsky.social @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social
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In a seminar, we once had to calculate the cost of an F35 jet. It was a group work and the groups arrived at vastly different numbers - because it depends what you include in the calculation. There is not one correct number.
Useful reminder how difficult it is to correctly calculate the cost - and the benefit - of counterdrone measures (as well as other defence systems).
warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...
warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...
The Hidden Cost of a Missile: Why the Headlines Get Cost Wrong
Since late 2023, the U.S. Navy has fired nearly $1 billion worth of munitions to protect ships in the Red Sea from low-cost Houthi drones and missiles.
warontherocks.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In a seminar, we once had to calculate the cost of an F35 jet. It was a group work and the groups arrived at vastly different numbers - because it depends what you include in the calculation. There is not one correct number.
On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice. By Tom Friedman.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
Opinion | On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice. By Tom Friedman.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
The Unlikely Mother of a Movement, on a Hunger Strike to Avenge Her Son. In Serbia, in case you wondered. By Lara Jakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
The Unlikely Mother of a Movement, on a Hunger Strike to Avenge Her Son
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Unlikely Mother of a Movement, on a Hunger Strike to Avenge Her Son. In Serbia, in case you wondered. By Lara Jakes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...
A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy. And more than that. by Halbfinger. photos by Berehrulak
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy. And more than that. by Halbfinger. photos by Berehrulak
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w...
If Only More Americans Could See This Place www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | If Only More Americans Could See This Place
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If Only More Americans Could See This Place www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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We went to a Parisian museum the other day where the staff could only check tickets but not sell tickets so we had to buy them on our phones outside in the rain (and of course you had to create an account etc etc) and I really thought I was going crazy.
today in We Live In The Future And The Future Is Stupid: went to a pub to inquire about a potential room booking but the staff aren't allowed to process those in person so I am now sitting in the pub, writing them an email to inquire about a potential room booking
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We went to a Parisian museum the other day where the staff could only check tickets but not sell tickets so we had to buy them on our phones outside in the rain (and of course you had to create an account etc etc) and I really thought I was going crazy.
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The Kennan Institute is back!
So thrilled for Michael Kimmage & honoured to join as an associate fellow, alongside much esteemed colleagues like Karl Schloegel, Andrew Monaghan, Jim Goldgeier, Linda Kinstler, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @kirland.bsky.social & others
www.kennaninstitute.org/about
So thrilled for Michael Kimmage & honoured to join as an associate fellow, alongside much esteemed colleagues like Karl Schloegel, Andrew Monaghan, Jim Goldgeier, Linda Kinstler, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @kirland.bsky.social & others
www.kennaninstitute.org/about
About | Explore Eurasian Insights Today — Kennan Institute
Discover the Kennan Institute's mission to provide expert analysis on Eurasia and foster policy debates. Engage with our research, events, and prominent scholars.
www.kennaninstitute.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Kennan Institute is back!
So thrilled for Michael Kimmage & honoured to join as an associate fellow, alongside much esteemed colleagues like Karl Schloegel, Andrew Monaghan, Jim Goldgeier, Linda Kinstler, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @kirland.bsky.social & others
www.kennaninstitute.org/about
So thrilled for Michael Kimmage & honoured to join as an associate fellow, alongside much esteemed colleagues like Karl Schloegel, Andrew Monaghan, Jim Goldgeier, Linda Kinstler, @stevenerlanger.bsky.social @kirland.bsky.social & others
www.kennaninstitute.org/about
There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There Is No Cease-Fire in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...