“World-historical land grab” allowing that it is not “land” but a certain volume of planetary atmospheric space.

Congratulations on your latest book.

This tree is older than the United States.

The Travilah Oak Tree this beautiful afternoon.

Congratulations to my colleague Chad on the birth of his first book, the product of years of archival research, thinking & writing. Very relevant to our turbulent times.

Confusing that the author is listed as Bernd and named as Graham.

Crazy. That restaurant is in my neighborhood and we have eaten there maybe twice in two decades.

Yet it is remarkably resilient relative to others down the years.

Modesty is for losers!

Big and beautiful bankruptcies only.

A Trumpian guide to war: Don’t tell the public, ignore international law, and forget about maps Here it is, Mr President: a simplified guide on how to sell a war to faithful followers, having told them up to now you would not launch one

Brendan O’Leary channeling Jonathan Swift on the 10 MAGA Commandments for war against Iran. 😂
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

RIP Patrick O’Sullivan, the London Irish political geographer (born December 1941) who taught for years at Florida State University.

He wrote on military geography and other topics.

His critique of domino theory reasoning was excellent and included in The Geopolitics Reader.

To my Diadoras, at their end today, for 37 years of fine service 🙏

Assigned @triofrancos.bsky.social new book in my Political Geography seminar. It’s really excellent, connecting frontier community living space struggles to clean energy corporate power & great power competition. Avoids us/them geopolitics: foregrounds an entangled global condition.

Make Great Power land grabbing great again, with (sadly) an Irish twist.

On the Irish 'gilets jaunes' road-blockage protests:

"Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan suggested on Thursday that the protests were being “manipulated” by English far-right figure Tommy Robinson."

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

He kills Popes, he sinks dictators, he'll restart a war... he should manage Spurs.

"It's not the same Iran anymore"

An erasure mentality without borders

Israel's destruction of villages in southern Lebanon continues apace.

A forum on 'Erasure' (from ISA 2025) will appear in the Journal of Genocide Research in the next month or so.

Seriously, the Irish government can't stick its head in the sand as Trump becomes Netanyahu/Putin.

www.trumphotels.com/ireland

Yes but there's no definitive edition. Gotta be learned through doing, following admired figures, etc.

One possible future scenario:

A former US prez, indicted by the ICC, visits his property in a small European state, amidst calls for his arrest...

Opinion | Trump Hasn’t Given Up on His ‘Unrequited Love’ for Putin

Underexplored here is emulation, an apprentice striving to follow a master.
- use state to get obscenely rich ✅
- use 'enemy within' to consolidate power ✅
- create regime oligarchs, punish real journalists ✅
- threaten neighbors, launch wars, commit war crimes ✅

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

One thing I should like to say on this day which may be memorable for others as well as for us Germans: In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance the Jewish race which only received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among many other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!

Trump today vs Hitler’s infamous Reichstag speech in 1939

The Frustrations of Geopolitics and the Pleasures of War: Behind Enemy Lines and American Geopolitical Culture This paper considers the film Behind Enemy Lines, made before 11th September 2001 but rush released soon after, as a cultural and commercial product which provides insights into American geopolitic...

Back in day I wrote about a US pilot shot down over Bosnia & a movie with a similar theme.

The Frustrations of Geopolitics and the Pleasures of War: Behind Enemy Lines and American Geopolitical Culture: Geopolitics: Vol 10, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Climate change, energy and geopolitics Podcast Episode · The Climate Briefing · March 31 · 45m

Great discussion, with Mike Bradshaw (excellent person whom I haven’t seen in years) and Arthur Snell on the “geopolitics of the energy transition” or, if you want to sex it up, on “metabolic geopolitics.”

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If Trump Is Neither Hawk nor Dove, What Is He? The president’s recent moves don’t fit the usual binary of U.S. foreign policy—but there is a historical precedent.

Trump's current offering is almost pure Jacksonianism.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/14/t...

Just Out Looking for a Fight": American Affect and the Invasion of Iraq Just Out Looking for a Fight": American Affect and the Invasion of Iraq

Trump's affective geopolitics is not unique.

Indeed, I wrote about 'pleasurable violence' at the outset of the Iraq invasion in 2003.

But there Jacksonianism was baked into a Wilsonian offering:

www.academia.edu/5700921/Just...

Immerwahr's argument here is very interesting.

Trump's geopolitics has:
- No animating civilizing mission (not 'classic imperialism')
- No chess game strategic vision
- No 'burden of empire'

Its about gratuitous violent domination, unrestrained war criminality.

‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades

“Trump truly believes that the US is entitled to whatever resource it so desires ... it’s a real ‘might-makes-right’ logic that is both abhorrent and spectacularly miscalculated.”

@pmbigger.bsky.social quoted in @theguardian.com 👇

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yeah Bosnia 🇧🇦👏

Plans for gaudy Trump presidential library in Miami spark ridicule Video posted on social media depicts a rendering of the proposed 50-storey gargantuan structure decked in gold

“This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest President our Nation has ever known…”

Oceans Rise, Empires Fall…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The "man-desires-takes" subtext of all this is hard to avoid.