Pres. Trump's latest threats on Truth Social, if carried out, would violate the law of armed conflict as laid out in the Geneva Conventions and the DoD Law of War Manual. It is both irresponsible and wrong to indiscriminately kill civilians in Iran and destroy civilian infrastructure. My statement:

76/ "Those who insist on promoting “pragmatism” are fighting the last war. They cannot fathom that the prime drivers of clean energy adoption are economics, speed, flexibility, and innovation, not ideology" Some "real energy security" truth bombs: sictransitiongloria.substack.com/p/the-roughn...

What Europe needs from the UK is real direction on how Europe can defend itself without the US. That can't/isn't happening at NATO. And UK still has the geopolitical nous to provide direction. And some of that direction needs to be figuring out the EU's defense role.

Earned the respect of a group of nations that its incredibly hard to gain any respect from. It’s a big deal in the longer term, and Zelesnky clearly has all the cards. The Drone making housewives of Ukraine must be the proudest people on Earth right now. They deserve the accolades.

Training is also taking place. President Zelensky has pulled off a remarkable foreign policy win for Ukraine too. He has ignored not just the Americans but the Europeans and gone off on his own to each of the regional powers as diplomat, statesman and business leader. He’s pushed Ukrainian tech,

1/3 Useful essay by @judah-grunstein.bsky.social on the end of the liberal international order (LIO) which he frames as the result of arrogance and errors by US and allies: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-west-l... and the need to rebuild something like it, in contrast to...

I expect @phillipspobrien.bsky.social will have some thoughts on this use of strategic air power

Fed's Powell with a quote that covers a lot of territory right now: "Confidence is what you feel before you really understand the problem."

This @70sbachchan.bsky.social thread is worth bookmarking and following. Yes, the electrostate>petrostate thesis is not new but what's so useful here is the collection of practical examples since the war proved it right.

engelsbergideas.com/essays/ameri... Shiraz Maher of @csns-uk.bsky.social with a sobering assessment of the effects of Trump's "war of whimsy."

Spot the difference: European leaders rejected requests to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, belittling the safety of seafarers and the security of international shipping.President Zelenskyy offered to help the Gulf countries defend themselves against Iranian terrorism, so they would not feel alone.

living in the monkey paw curls timeline for hitting global climate targets

Yep, largest TACO. The enemy gets a vote. Iran delivered PAIN to Trump via multiple paths: (1) Hormuz Chokehold (2) Gulf Kings (3) Financial meltdown Domestic politics of war termination then requires Trump to sell strategic defeat as Iran "crying uncle" & US "winning" bsky.app/profile/jeff...

probably the most depressing thing I’ll read this week

Remarkable and disturbing @rusi.bsky.social analysis of the munition shortage after three weeks of war www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

The @prospect.org 's @ddayen.bsky.social with an encouraging view on how juries are taking down outrageous social media companies, in contrast to the fecklessness of judges: prospect.org/2026/03/26/s...

BREAKING: Trump wants to put his name on the Kennedy Center & we're asking the court to stop him @democracydefendersaction.org & WLG just filed for summary judgment on behalf of @repbeatty.bsky.social — to reverse the illegal rename This is an attempt to subvert our Constitution & the rule of law

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Ossoff: "After years of this president trashing our allies, we learned today that the Danish govt was preparing military options to defeat a potential American invasion of Greenland just months ago. The president has treated our allies like they don't matter then demanded they come to his aid."

Fully agree! And NATO has never meant allies are committed to follow each other into wars beyond NATO territory. Eisenhower refused to support Eden over Suez. Wilson said no to LBJ over Vietnam. It’s a case by case decision depending how each sees its national interest. Tho that’s not Trump’s world.

Just a reminder that the Washington Treaty defines the geography of NATO’s mutual defense pledge — at U.S. insistence in 1949 — to prevent allies from committing us to their wars outside of Europe.

Short read: the Trump Administration has messed up spectacularly and has totally lost control of events - but that doesn’t mean Iran is winning. Cold, hard, deeply knowledgable analysis. Immensely worrying, thoroughly depressing, reading.

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...

Oscar well deserved

4/But this is not simply crony capitalism, it is an effort to disassemble the most disciplined and bureaucratic arm of the modern state (the US military) and turn it into an economic engine for insiders.

The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.

"Operation Epic Escort" guys come on

It's important to not engage in overcorrection here. US policy failure does not mean that the IRGC comes out of this unscathed or that the Iranian state has endless capacity to weather infrastructure and economic breakdown. The awful nature of Trump's government also distracts from other dynamics

Precisely

Great points from @donmoyn.bsky.social here: Dems will at some point have to break Musk's control over the US government. "The scale of Musk’s power makes it hard to dislodge him from government, even as the extreme nature of his views make it unsustainable to treat him as a neutral contractor."

Workshopping my LinkedIn post to announce: "When I was growing up I would never dreamt of being supreme leader of a theocratic dictatorship. It was something that happened to other people. But during my career journey I've learnt that you can aspire to anything if... [continues for 2000 words...]"

Has this been verified by other news sources?

Forbes reports Iran war may have already cost the US > $1bn As MLK said: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." www.forbes.com/sites/alison... www.crmvet.org/info/mlk_vie...

"If a major burden shift is likely, Britain & its neighbours can try to negotiate a Fulton-in-reverse, receiving back the baton but in an orderly, stable & gradual way, creating a less American not a post-American Europe" Key reading from @patporter76.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man." -- James Madison www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-una...

This reads as quite a damning indictment of your field

This is how it is done. Kudos to @ossoff.bsky.social

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

My statement regarding President Trump’s illegal war with Iran:

Tommy Robinson visited the US State Department today at the invite of the Trump administration. He's Britain's most prominent far-right street thug with criminal convictions for assault, violence, fraud, stalking & harassment. He was jailed in 2012 for trying to enter the US with a false passport.

today's liberal internationalist take is that you can't be an american liberal internationalist if you don't have a real plan to stop this fuckery from happening again

It's interesting that the angriest and most indignant opinions pushing back on this bullshit are coming from some of the oldest judges. I could speculate on several possible explanations. But I'm glad they're doing it.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Superb long form reporting in @theguardian.com

When @radiofreetom.bsky.social wrote The Death of Expertise, I doubt he expected HMG to take him literally

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

@ossoff.bsky.social "Never in the history of corruption has so little effort gone into hiding so much graft" is a great line because everyone knows it's true. Before running for office, Ossoff was a brave fighter against corruption in the world, now he fights it at home. youtu.be/hzQY53_hpWw?...