Had a wonderful time with an excellent team (headed by @jteurope.bsky.social) representing the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social at the Spanish Foreign Ministry.

How Russia Could Exploit a Vacuum in Europe The dangers of a rapid drawdown in American forces.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

81 years ago today…

The Hidden Past and Uncertain Future of the U.S. and Ukraine with Celeste Wallander Brussels Sprouts · Episode

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...

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

Canada and Carney’s New American Approach Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

🎙️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...

Can Europe Fight Back with Shashank Joshi and Camille Grand Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

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...

Can Europe Fight Back with Shashank Joshi and Camille Grand Podcast Episode · Brussels Sprouts · 07/03/2025 · 1h 13m

@camillegrand.bsky.social on Brussels Sprouts with @jteurope.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/b...

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Let’s hope this spreads across the land!

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...

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/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

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World with Hal Brands Brussels Sprouts · Episode

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...

Trump World Takes on Europe Podcast Episode · Brussels Sprouts · 02/07/2025 · 53m

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...

At the protest in Washington

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.

Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare Russian-linked attacks on undersea infrastructure are rising

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

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/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.

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.

You are an honorable man!

RIP Jimmy Carter. A life well lived.

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...

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.

The tainted legacy of the Merkel-Obama years A failure to respond to Russian, Chinese and Syrian aggression helped to create the unstable world of today

www.ft.com/content/0a53.... Excellent

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!!

Life is not one damn thing after another,” he wrote, “it is the same damn thing over and over.” George F. Will

Me too! Your post yesterday was the first to pop up!