The story of the painting and its symbolism for German-American relations can be found int he opening chapter of my book "No Better Friends? The United States and Germany since 1945", which can be found here: www.amazon.com/No-Better-Fr...
"for should the disorder infect the Army in the natural way and rage with its usual virulence we should have more to dread from it than from the Sword of the Enemy." The whole text of the letter can be found here: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
"This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust in its consequences will have the most happy effects. Necessity not only authorizes but seems to require the measure," (cont.)
In a letter to Dr. William Shippen, the medical director of the Continental Army, Washington wrote: "Finding the Small pox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running through the whole of our Army, I have determined that the troops shall be inoculated." (cont.)
The painting in the background, Washington Crossing the Delaware (which btw was painted in Germany, as I describe in my book), depicts events that took place around Christmas 1776. Just a couple of months later, Washington famously mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army against small pox.
“Last week Australia and Japan signed a new agreement for the Australian Navy to acquire Japanese-designed Mogami-class frigates. … Countries like Australia are seeking to diversify their military hardware away from the United States, as the deal demonstrates.”
thediplomat.com/2026/04/aust...
Did you teach yourself?
"Whereas prior Anthropic models converted known vulnerabilities into working exploits at a low success rate, Mythos does so 72.4 percent of the time. It has found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities." Good text by Naveen Krishnan that at least hints at solutions warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/...
That makes sense. Thanks!
So the fact that the unwind day was yesterday was just because it was time? No particular event?
Thanks!
Can you elaborate on how positioning could explain it?
On future of jobs 73% of experts expect a positive impact, compared with just 23% of the public. Trust in governments to regulate AI varies. US reported the lowest level of trust in its own government to regulate AI. Globally, the EU is trusted more than the US or China to regulate AI effectively.
Graph showing number of reported AI incidents from 2012-25
"Responsible AI is not keeping pace with AI capability, with safety benchmarks lagging and incidents rising sharply"
Graph showing US and Chinese AI models performance.
Some interesting findings in the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report. A few points that stuck out: According to the report, the U.S.-China AI model performance gap has effectively closed
Port of Los Angeles Director with some sobering logistics realities: "For every one day of service disruption, it takes about three days to catch up". This means, we are already looking at 4.5 months before things return to normal operations at the port: www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
The AfD is stuck in the same 24-27% zone it has been since the summer of 2025. It's not a good sign, but it's also not the kind of dominance Orban exerted in Hungarian politics
The physical disruption in energy is only going to get worse in the coming weeks/months. Literally everyone knows this. Maybe spot prices keep grinding higher and inflation gets worse.
The question is whether risk assets are gonna care, if the conflict is settled and the FLOW of energy restored.
I’ll give you hilly, but in Münster (hometown), which is known for being the bike capital of Germany, it is darker for longer and it rains at any given time. Those issues are solvable.
A group of small businesses and 24 mostly Democrat-led states urged a panel of US trade judges to vacate President Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs
WSJ: When Pentagon officials last fall briefed President Trump on a draft of a bureaucratic defense strategy document, it framed China the same way it had for a decade: as the U.S.'s top security threat.
Trump balked and ordered his Pentagon deputy to rewrite it.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
And steady/long-term, I would assume.
Oh fantastic. Congratulations!
Were you able to pitch it as an article to another outlet? Thanks for sharing.
Have you seen any updated or current numbers on this anywhere?
Wow. Congrats!
Oh I think it sure is!
Since the narrative of “young right-wing men” persists so — here are some findings/patterns from the representative election statistics of the various German federal states.
Spoiler: *IN NO GERMAN STATE DO MEN AGED 18–24 VOTE FOR THE AfD MORE THAN MEN AGED 35–60.*
"EU says Mercosur free trade deal will start May 1, accounting for 25% of global GDP" www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
