We might finally get rid of another Russian puppet in the near future
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"You are as beautiful as Draghi's Whatever it takes" ๐ช๐บ Almost historian, full-time podcast listener๐๏ธ Writing on military history, US and EU politics, and videogames while preaching the defeat of Putin's regime๐บ๐ฆ
We might finally get rid of another Russian puppet in the near future
balkaninsight.com/2026/03/09/t...
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs itโs the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
Always easy to get satisfied by belittling or creating myths to mock historical life, because the dead can't speak.
โYouโre gonna die for a โmulticultural economic zone?โโ
โSomeone is.โ
Su Formiche ne parlano in un'intervista allโambasciatore Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, presidente della Nato Defense College Foundation di Roma formiche.net/2026/02/perc...
๐ฎ๐น Oggi una notizia dall'Italia, dove gli Stati Uniti hanno deciso di cedere il comando del Joint Force Command Naples della NATO al nostro paese. Decisione sicuramente da tenere d'occhio insieme al cambio avvenuto anche alle basi di Norfolk e Brunssum. www.lalettre.fr/fr/politique...
Europeans think all the random loot in Fallout is because of a nuclear war but America is just like that. Yesterday, I found a rocket launcher looking for my phone charger.
Ahhh yeah right
I think I blocked them or they blocked me or Bluesky blocked everyone, whatever, what's the movie you're talking about?
I just told myself "Well, they're actors, I'm sure they were pretending. But it's the Superbowl halftime show, if there's a place where this could be a real wedding it's there"
๐ฌ๐ง February 7, 1992: Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Greece, the United Kingdom and Ireland sign the Treaty on European Union (TEU), better known as the Maastricht Treaty
#adayinEUhistory
I need to save this whole thread
Because the large organizations of the Here and the Us are full of people and full of arcane complexities and utter stupidities, but where the Grass is Greeener in the Over There and Not Us, surely they are masters of logic, reason, and avoid all the problems of bureaucracy.
"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats whoโve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
๐ฌ๐ง February 3, 2015: Sergio Mattarella was sworn in as the 12th President of the Italian Republic. One wonders what he is thinking right now, after everything that has happened in these eleven years
#adayinEUhistory #Italy
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๐งต Un alto ufficiale israliano afferma: a Gaza oltre 70mila morti
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It's 410 CE, and I'm your podcast host, Rossus Douthaticus. I'm here with Alaric the Visigoth, who recently sacked the Eternal City.
Alaric, why do you think people have lost faith in Rome? Is it a crisis of liberalism? Is it because of the feminization of the workplace?
This isn't a matter of russophobia or racism: it's a problem Russia itself is facing already:
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Just another problem that we'll need to address in the future:
kyivindependent.com/estonia-push...
#Russia #Ukraine #EU
In questi giorni si รจ parlato molto del nuovo paradigma che sta seguendo l'America di Trump: un corollario alla "Dottrina Monroe", o Donroe, come dice lui, che segue un atteggiamento inedito rispetto alle vecchie forme di imperialismo USA.
Ne ho scritto qui: open.substack.com/pub/letteret...
You can all just quit your jobs. I want you to remember that. You don't have to go try and do pointless stooge shit in a city that already hates you more than you've ever hated anything and will sniff you out as diaper baby cowards before your rental van gets over the Ben Franklin Bridge.
๐ Lโunico baluardo contro lโoligarchia necropolitica in ascesa รจ lโEuropa | @shekhovtsov.substack.com
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*Pikachu face*
"We are making ourselves into the world we want to give to the next seven generations.โ
But isnโt that what youโd expect a politician to say publicly? Thatโs the standard diplomacy, itโs what happens now in closed meetings that counts. Iโm sure all European & NATO countries are making plans & agreements for the future without saying something publicly that shortens the timeline
I think part of the sycophancy of last year was also a way to gain time. Same as the "good cop" moments with Rutte and similar stuff
I mean, functionally, as bad as congressional Dems have been - and they've been awful, Schumer and Jeffries particularly - there is simply no mechanism by which we can force this man from office without Republican officeholders deciding he has crossed a line
they have zero lines, none
it's bad!
it has never been more clear that Trump's "I could shoot someone on fifth avenue and lose no votes" statement is true, at least when it comes to congressional support
apparently it also applies to "invade greenland" and I don't really know where we go from there
Sanction and travel ban everyone in the administration, congressional republicans, and their billionaire backers and this is over by eod
Sharp points from @polphilpod.bsky.social on the basic error that centrists made in overreacting to meaning of Trump 2024 win. Dovetails w/my argument that folks didn't appreciate the latent solidarity with immigrants felt by many ordinary people (see below)
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...