In my latest with The European Leadership Network
@theeln.bsky.social, I argue that TPNW membership is not at the crossed-purposes of alliance networks that is so often claimed.
Also perhaps of interest to @apln.network and @eunpdc.bsky.social
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Some thoughts I gave to @thecradlemedia.bsky.social’s Stasa Salacanin on the US/Israeli war on Iran and transatlantic relations.
Not a great time for any hangover Atlanticists still poking around…
Iceland is without a doubt my new favourite place.
Push comes to shove I will disappear to the glaciers. 🇮🇸
One of the bleaker things I always see in the Netherlands is groups of people shovelling down hard bread with cheese as they walk and calling it “lunch.”
Dude same. Albert Heijn is crazy enough already.
People keep saying "send Donald Trump to The Hague" but have you considered i dont want to live near him?
Just to sum it up, US out of the Middle East!!
Ergo, I and many others do not want US and Israeli forces to succeed in whatever goals they have.
Further, those of us with a real interest in anti-imperialism and restraint in foreign policy aim for a total US withdrawal from the wider Middle East, breaking ties with Israel and the Gulf States.
But thats just not the case. Myself and everyone I know who is against the war in both the US, Middle East, and Europe agree that the war itself is a moral and strategic travesty, wrong at its core. Just like the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
What a lot of national security minded folks don’t quite grasp is that opposition to the US-Israeli war on Iran is not interested in US success.
They seem to have the attitude that those in the opposition are concerned with procedure, like them (ie lack of strategy, no Congressional approval)
From the war against Iran to the ICE occupations and murders, historians are not going to see the internal records of this administration, thats for sure. They will absolutely be destroying whatever they can whenever they leave.
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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
How it feels learning Russian
Not a great time to share a last name with dude.
You can be damn sure though if my wife and I had this some programming changes would be made.
Priority #1: Merging all MTV reality into one giant chaotic homunculus
I promise not to get political.
Me at the function 1 hour later:
Lol this AI slop image of Clausewitz is great.
Like he’d be going:
“Where the tf the tsar?”
“France has nukes?!?”
“Whats a nuke?!”
“Tf is a Saudi?”
Guy probably would’ve ended up addicted to Zyn and Only Fans like a true modern military professional.
Oh look, just a premier security studies school linking its students to violent extremism for passing a student-led resolution on BDS.
Yet another university administration choosing government ties over its own students….
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Also good on Spain for calling out Rutte’s pro-Trump bullshit.
His appeasing the US goes way beyond the veneer of “holding the alliance together.”
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
UK has now lost its half mark because of Diego Garcia.
Good on Spain for its full refusal to take part in or enable this US insanity. Half marks for the UK.
Alliances aren’t worth it if they’re a one way street, and more European countries are starting to realise that.
I think the last time the USA created regime change solely through bombing was in Cambodia, when a massive carpet bombing campaign so destabilized the country that the Khmer Rouge came to power and wiped out the Royal government—the American ally. Genocide followed.
Quote of the day
A central feature of US decline is declining credibility. When it makes threats and promises, others simply don’t believe it. As Trump has now twice used diplomacy for the sole purpose of deception to wage illegal war on Iran, he has only accelerated US decline
Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.
Wake up babe, my country started another war of aggression.
I can only wish US and Israeli forces failure.
Taliban fighters who’ve been stuck in office jobs getting up to go beat their third nuclear power in their lifetime.
It is just on the nose how defence commentators will condemn the Russian bombing of Ukrainian energy infrastructure on one hand and totally back strangling Cuban energy supplies.
Both sides of their mouth.
How did I wind up helping plan a NATO summit while surrounded by anti-NATO protestors?
Take a look in here, where I try to wrap my mind around becoming a peace strategist not only in form, but function.
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