If you know, you know. I joke, therefore I survive the news cycle. It’s all fake of course

A new and growing threat—naive individuals unknowingly turned into walking bombs.What’s happening in Ukraine today could spread elsewhere tomorrow 🇷🇺intelligence agency reportedly blew up its agents carrying IED near railway station.Two teens were recruited via Telegram channels offering “easy money”

🇪🇺 A week that felt like a decade: Europe reels from J.D. Vance’s speech in Munich 🇺🇸 At this @eui-eu.bsky.social webinar last week, experts dissected the US shift away from European security, J.D. Vance’s controversial speech, & what this means for EU’s strategic autonomy. www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

It’s 80 years since WWII. Russians are already designing their information campaign around this date, blending narratives of war with Ukraine in the cauldron of historical mythology about Russia’s liberation of Europe from Nazism.

My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

🗣️ The Munich Security Conference 2025 exposed growing tensions between the US & Europe over NATO and Ukraine. What does this mean for Europe’s security and economic future? 🔗 Register now to join the discussion: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

One of my key points was defence Without it efforts at recovery will mean little Western ground forces in 🇺🇦remain a debated issue. But NATO-led air operation to shield 🇺🇦airspace combined with threat of massive long-range strikes from aircraft & missile systems, could be real deterrent to 🇷🇺aggression

Russian propaganda thrives partly because Western intellectuals have long admired Russian culture uncritically, while criticism from Russia’s neighbors was dismissed as biased. Elif Batuman’s piece in @newyorker.com gives hope that this is finally changing.

Let’s leave “just peace” aside. A peace deal with Russia on Russian terms would be a doomed agreement from the start. Beyond the arguments presented in the @fpri.bsky.social webinar, Europe will also have to contend with the challenge of dealing with the Russian regime that has made war its lifeline

Together with Andrew Palmer, I will be hosting a new Standing Section at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Bologna: Narrating World Polics. If you are working on narratives in IR (broadly understood) we are much looking forward to your submissions! eisa-net.org/pec-2025/

Good to start my Bluesky with such a special feedback about my text. Thank you, @erik-jones.bsky.social