Unless the "interim governing structure" is 'the Maduro regime run by Delcy Rodriguez,' they're gonna have a hard time governing much. Either that or they have some invading to do. It is robustly unclear to me what they think they are doing or if they know.

A relatively upstart, not that established journal asked me to review an article within 30 days a week before Christmas. If you want people to decline out of hand, this is how you do it. It puzzles me how 30 days for review is now and industry standard, but the average waiting time stayed the same

We regret to inform you that Ron Paul is entirely correct here.

Wow, and the hits keep coming today. 'that Ukraine must accept' - or what? Putin will bomb their apartments? He's already doing that. Trump will freeze aid? Who is negotiating for the USA that they think that these proposals are anything but non-starters?

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A London court sentenced six people to prison terms ranging from 8 to 17 years for setting fire to warehouses containing humanitarian aid for Ukraine on behalf of the Wagner Group. The fire occurred on March 20, 2024, and caused £1.3 million in damage. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meanwhile, here's part of the amicus brief from the military brass also filed today in the same case, in support of neither party, but definitely not in support of Trump.

Eleanor the cat, companion and symbol of the Ukrainian Coast Guard boat crew.

Pleased to see my article on AWS and the threshold of armed conflict come out; I problematize often simplistic assumptions that characterize the initial takes on the issue and call for more in-depth and empirically grounded study of the issue. 🧵 with several of my main points:

My article on autonomous wepaons is out, one of the few focusing on terrorist and authroitarian threats where, as I argue, we need specific and tailored solutions other than a general ban. It's open access, so help yourselves!

I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights. They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried. So, yeah, contempt.

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

World War II really was 'the Good War,' the Nazis really were bad and needed to be defeated (Imperial Japan too) and while it is true not all of the Allies were Good Guys it is true all of the Axis were Bad Guys. "The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory."

Absolutely chilling stuff

A president who thinks this may find that he does not command an army either, to the misery of all involved, including you and me, dear reader.

This was so wild even nihilistic me thought maybe it wasn’t true but yes it seems to be true

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Speaking truth to power is always courageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

A genuinely difficult problem we now encounter in public life, even in countries that have not been swept by this wave of postmodern authoritrianism

I am struck by how it seems like globally, the autocrats and would-be autocrats are well aware that their interests are aligned against democracy. It seems to me that we greatly need of a matching 'liberal' (in the international sense) international movement dedicated to preserving democracies.

With Russia's budget deficit at 3.3 trillion rubles, 21% key interest rate and 2-3 million job vacancies, Russia has to choose between hyperinflation or an economic freeze, says Vladimir Milov, former Deputy Minister of Energy in an interview with Frontelligence Insight 🧵Thread:

One thing that strikes me in Western reception of recent events in Syria is that so many people are basically openly rooting for HTS to engage in war crimes/persecutions in order to be proven right in their view that no jihadi/islamist organization can ever evolve in a right direction 1/4

what i think most people don't understand is that defense spending is not actually high--in fact, it is *near record lows* as a percent of gdp. and we're not living in the end of history anymore--we're headed into a new era of instability and great power conflict. www.defense.gov/Multimedia/P...

Looking for examples of seminal war ethics texts that constituted straightforward and timely reactions to contemporary events - Nagel's "War and Massacre" and McMahan's/Kim's "Just War and the Gulf War" fit this bill. Any other candidates?

“It’s ‘boring war’ — stuff like ammunition stockpiles, transport and logistics — that really matters,” says Stringer, who has written about a possible post-US Nato. “It’s also what almost nobody does properly at scale, except for the US.” www.ft.com/content/6bea...

The full-scale invasion day 1,000th. We owe everything we have to a Ukrainan soldier - who’s tired, unwilling, outnumbered, and outgunned, sensing grief and injustice - yet who keeps doing the terrible job every single day to save the world.