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Provincial drudge
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Thanks to @arisroussinos.bsky.social for engaging so extensively with my book in this @unherd.com piece. Agree strongly with his final point on the vital connection between domestic stability and external policy. This is important for the current debate on a potential 🇬🇧🇫🇷 peacekeeping force in 🇺🇦
unherd.com UnHerd @unherd.com · Mar 26
Britain’s material shortages of men, munitions, and industrial capacity all stem from one flaw: wishful thinking | Aris Roussinos
Britain's defence strategy is pure cakeism
'For Britain to rearm now is essential.' Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images
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March 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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ROK defense industrial base model is probably something every traditionally US-aligned middle power is going to want to look at from here on out, tbh. Invent everything twice, first with US stuff if needed, then a totally indigenous version they can't veto once you've built industrial proficiency.
March 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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This is often framed as France losing influence in its former African colonies. There's truth in that, but the sentence itself makes the underlying problem self-evident.

In truth, these states have done France a favor by forcing it to do what it was unwilling to do before now.
A Staunch Ally in Africa Says French Forces Will Withdraw
The troops are expected to leave Ivory Coast this month as France, a former colonial power in West Africa, fast loses influence there.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Baa, humbug.
December 25, 2024 at 4:23 PM
In the end, Russia and the Axis of Resistance stood down, accepting Syria’s political transition. Now the most dangerous threats to the country’s sovereignty and stability come from within America’s notional order: unherd.com/2024/12/how-...
How Syria will shape Europe's future
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December 14, 2024 at 7:20 PM
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Donald Trump’s nomination of Keith Kellogg as Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia raises the likelihood of an initial “escalate-to-deescalate” approach as part of the U.S. strategy to pressure Russia into negotiations. However, whether this will ultimately define the strategy remains to be seen.
November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Ardoyne, Belfast
November 23, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Oof. An incredibly tough read. Hard to find many parts to disagree with unfortunately.

There’s a lesson here for Democrats who found themselves to be the hapless defenders of an international order that isn’t really progressive or very popular.

unherd.com/2024/11/welc...
Welcome back to 1945
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November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
On Trump and the mythical, and actually existing, 1945 orders: unherd.com/2024/11/welc...
Welcome back to 1945
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November 12, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Apropos of questions about who could be the left's Joe Rogan: Here @podsaveamerica.bsky.social’s @danpfeiffer.bsky.social notes that if Harris had gone on with organically popular left analogues for Rogan like Hasan Piker, she would have had to answer Gaza questions: crooked.com/podcast/how-...
November 11, 2024 at 9:49 AM
The World At War would be impossible to make now, just when we need its sober clarity most. Me on the 50th anniversary of the greatest documentary series ever made: unherd.com/2023/10/the-...
October 30, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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This is a very good piece by @arisroussinos.bsky.social
Israel is no longer Britain's war
The conflict has become an outlet for our tribalism
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October 21, 2023 at 10:33 AM
The Israel-Palestine conflict should have ceased to be an issue for British politics since precisely Midnight on May 14th 1948. Instead, its political salience in 2023 sadly tells us much about modern Britain: unherd.com/2023/10/isra...
October 21, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Visions of Anglofuturist Britain
October 5, 2023 at 7:54 PM
Reading a lot of 1940s novels, resonant of a world of sudden, sharply-declining living standards and a great global convulsion experienced on the home front as normality, only bleaker and more depressing, as in Patrick Hamilton’s characterisation of the war as “petty pilferer.”
September 28, 2023 at 8:27 AM
Like Roman titles after the withdrawal of the legions, NATO may yet outlast the empire: unherd.com/2023/09/what...
September 28, 2023 at 8:07 AM
Liberal idealists on Ukraine are hard-nosed Realists on Karabakh (and often, vice versa)
September 21, 2023 at 6:43 AM