Sure, here they are...

Stronger together 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Pure joy in otherwise horrific times.

A NATO training scenario in the Baltics took an unexpected turn. The opposing force was only ten Ukrainians.

🇫🇷 Mi-mars, l'armée de l'Air et de l'Espace a mené l'exercice Poker, destiné à entraîner ses forces aériennes stratégiques à un raid nucléaire. L'AFP était à bord d'un des avions ravitailleurs ⤵️

Europe in decline latest.

New piece. The US campaign against Iran has revealed one major story which people are not acknowledging. For reasons of both internal US weakness and technological development, the US is showing it has almost no chance in a war against China in the Western Pacific. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

I spoke to Bloomberg for this piece (Gift Link) - There’s an Information Void at the Heart of the Iran War www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And now Emiraties and Saudis to repeat the same.

Oh dear.. He's tears-in-my-eyes good.

Everything is better, bigger, faster in Murica!

"Iran, which is completely defeated, is disrupting the Strait with the navy and missiles we've completely destroyed and that is unacceptable because it is making the oil price go up, which is good actually, and NATO which I do not support needs to come rescue us immediately. Thank you for your a..."

You can only have unlimited confidence in your exceptionalism when you're on your first empire. When it's your second, third or fourth there is always that niggling memory of what happened to the previous one.

We need to acknowledge role played by Biden, Sullivan, Scholz and the gang for letting me hang on long enough for Donald to rescue me. History will be kind to them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Russia is winning so much that in the fifth year of its full-scale invasion, Ukraine is supplying its weapons to the U.S. and the Gulf states.

Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.

EU rearmament tests stability and trust in the Western Balkans

Weird how creating conditions where powerful people never have to face real accountability leads to powerful people abusing their power. Who could have predicted that?

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

Just as Blair’s relatively “easy” wars in Kosovo and Sierra Leone etc encouraged him to overreach in Iraq, Trump’s relatively easy interventions in Venezuela, Syria, Nigeria etc encouraged him to overreach in Iran. Unfortunately it’ll probably end the same way: with decades of strife and civil war

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

Getting your people ready for the upcoming war is not just about the hardware you have. It's the images and emotions that bring passion and determination. And boy, did the French delivered...

Every single word of this. And more.

I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance. Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.

Dubai and Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are being bombed by same Iranian Shahed drones today. The sentence I never thought I would ever need to say

A lot of apples and oranges going on in media analysis comparing Iranian drone capabilities with what the Russians are doing to Ukraine. Russia drone launch sites are not vulnerable to the level of airpower that the US and Israel can exert on Iran.

This is all fine and well with one exception - all Gulf states bar Oman provide direct support for this strikes by allowing US and Israel to use their airspace and air and naval basis to launch these attacks.

All those doomsayers predicting the end of #EU can go ef themselves...

In UK politics you can get away with laundering fascism as long as you went to the right schools

... and to these two types the people who think 15min cities are the way for global elites to put us all in gulags

Slava herojima.

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Great thread. And if I may add, a reason why US and Russia need a 5th column within Europe (Orban, Fico, Farage, LePen and other Nazis) and Canada (Alberta secessionists) to undermine Europe's unity and bring to power people who will be modern day quislings.

Finally someone in the room in Munich who is not pretending to have seen something that wasn't there. In the days to come, statements from Little Marco's visit to Orban and Fico will confirm @kajakallas.bsky.social words.

Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

For MAGAts, civilisation means white, evangelical, Christian, colonising supremacy. Fuck, no.

Indeed, classical "good cop-bad cop" shitck by MAGA.

The only comment I have on the Rubio speech is that I don’t want to spend too much time on the Rubio speech. Nothing is changing with regards to US policy. We don’t need to do a line-by-line analysis.

I like @donald-tusk.bsky.social

Ohhh... So they belive in copyrights? Interesting.

Just as it takes foreign journalists to describe the full extent of state oppression in the US, here's some fine reporting from NYT to describe similar processes taking place in the EU.

Principles, precedents, and expectations... Maybe a time to start putting things on paper, codifying it in one document, naming a court to interpret it... You know, like a normal country

Show me one of your favourite childhood cartoon characters

Triangulation only works from a Left or Liberal position if a Left or Liberal base is confident that those doing the triangulating have the courage to defend shared principles when the chips are down

Europe loves to lecture the world about values, but morals without power is just vibes. We regulate AI we don’t build, sell handbags instead of hardware, and rely on others for our security and energy. If we really believe in liberal democracy, we’d better be willing to back it up.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds