Rick Green
@bcbrews.bsky.social
Writer with an interest in 🍺☕🍴🧳🤘🏻📰 culture, history, politics • #WW2TV SLK • #NAFO 🇺🇦 🇬🇪
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“Witkoff & Kushner are not acting in the interests of the US or our global interests or those of our allies. They’re acting in the interests of their milieu, maybe themselves. This is grand scale corruption of a kind we haven’t had in the US, and it does resemble Putin’s Russia.”
—Anne Applebaum
—Anne Applebaum
Corruption, Chaos, and a Crooked Peace Plan in Ukraine
Podcast Episode · Talking Feds · 01/01/2026 · 1h 6m
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January 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
“Witkoff & Kushner are not acting in the interests of the US or our global interests or those of our allies. They’re acting in the interests of their milieu, maybe themselves. This is grand scale corruption of a kind we haven’t had in the US, and it does resemble Putin’s Russia.”
—Anne Applebaum
—Anne Applebaum
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“Given that the very existence of a sovereign Ukraine is the fundamental issue, the peace plan is unlikely to find favour in the Kremlin. It was fascinating to see Zelensky going along w the charade, showing Olympic levels of restraint when Trump claimed that Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed. 1/
359. The Mar-a-Lago Charade & The
Podcast Episode · Battleground · 02/01/2026 · 46m
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January 2, 2026 at 4:24 AM
“Given that the very existence of a sovereign Ukraine is the fundamental issue, the peace plan is unlikely to find favour in the Kremlin. It was fascinating to see Zelensky going along w the charade, showing Olympic levels of restraint when Trump claimed that Putin wants to see Ukraine succeed. 1/
#MOU Is it really worth giving US #fossilfuel corps mega profits for chicken feed and this? Compared to Norway, do Albertans believe they are receiving the full value of their resources?
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ClimateCrisis #COP30
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ClimateCrisis #COP30
Climate disasters in 2025 threatened people's ability to respond and adapt, scientists say | CBC News
Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.
www.cbc.ca
December 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#MOU Is it really worth giving US #fossilfuel corps mega profits for chicken feed and this? Compared to Norway, do Albertans believe they are receiving the full value of their resources?
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ClimateCrisis #COP30
#cdnpoli #abpoli #ClimateCrisis #COP30
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If confirmed, this paper could be the best news of 2025: complete reversal of Alzheimer's. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Pharmacologic reversal of advanced Alzheimer’s disease in mice and identification of potential therapeutic nodes in human brain
Chaubey et al. demonstrate that restoration of brain resilience reverses advanced
disease in two different mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), challenging the
century-long dogma of AD irreversib...
www.cell.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If confirmed, this paper could be the best news of 2025: complete reversal of Alzheimer's. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Russia did a false-flag attack on Putin's residence to sabotage Zelensky's visit to Trump... except the Russians are so dumb they didn't actually stage anything to falsify evidence against Ukraine.
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Russia did a false-flag attack on Putin's residence to sabotage Zelensky's visit to Trump... except the Russians are so dumb they didn't actually stage anything to falsify evidence against Ukraine.
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Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
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A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
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I spoke last month on how Chinese firms operate across borders amid tariffs and export bans.
I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/tracking-c...
I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/tracking-c...
Tracking China’s Global Tech and Investment Moves
Tips from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Malaysia
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I spoke last month on how Chinese firms operate across borders amid tariffs and export bans.
I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/tracking-c...
I break down what’s actually changing with China's role in tech supply chains — and how to track it — in this week’s
@nuoraglobal.bsky.social newsletter.
nuoraglobaladvisors.substack.com/p/tracking-c...
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Okay, so now best China books read in 2025 #NonFiction #China #History #Law #Biography #Memoir I chose three - with one runner up!! 1/6 #histbookchat
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Okay, so now best China books read in 2025 #NonFiction #China #History #Law #Biography #Memoir I chose three - with one runner up!! 1/6 #histbookchat
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My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best China Books of 2025
American professor and modern Chinese history specialist Jeffrey Wasserstrom recommends favourite books about China published in 2025.
fivebooks.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
For #WW2TV and #histbookchat folks, this book will be of interest. Rana Mitter's endorsement is noteworthy. I'm looking forward to reading what Emily has to say on the topic.
Save 50% now on preordering my book from the University of Michigan Press with promo code "HOLIDAY25"!
“Emily Matson’s highly original analysis gives granular detail about one of the key debates in China on this question...”
- Rana Mitter, Harvard University
press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
“Emily Matson’s highly original analysis gives granular detail about one of the key debates in China on this question...”
- Rana Mitter, Harvard University
press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
China’s Date Debate
China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937-–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the...
press.umich.edu
December 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
For #WW2TV and #histbookchat folks, this book will be of interest. Rana Mitter's endorsement is noteworthy. I'm looking forward to reading what Emily has to say on the topic.
How profiting from pardons works for Trump. Quite something to see how blatant this is. Speaks to how rotten the system has become.
“Binance offered support to one of the Trump family's crypto ventures, World Liberty Financial. Binance accepted World Liberty's stablecoin as payment for a $2 billion investment by Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX. Binance's decision provided a big boost to the World Liberty.”
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
How profiting from pardons works for Trump. Quite something to see how blatant this is. Speaks to how rotten the system has become.
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Americans, please stop telling me you “don’t have a culture of protests.”
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Americans, please stop telling me you “don’t have a culture of protests.”
Ironic #Trump unilateralism propels former #WWII belligerents to expand their militaries. Post-war institutions, alliances, and norms structured behavior. Now, we are getting the #WildWest with weakened institutional authority, conditional alliances, zero-sum competition, transactional relations.
After decades of restraint, Germany is under pressure to do more. Is it ready?
From Restraint to Readiness? Germany Considers Conscription
On Dec. 5, 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reached a significant milestone in his bid to build “Europe’s strongest conventional army”: Germany’s
warontherocks.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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Pu's cheap lying stunt exposed the uselessness of any US security guarantees to Ukraine (or to NATO members fwiw). If Trump believes the aggressor immediately and unconditionally without any evidence, Pu can accuse Ukraine of violating the terms of any peace settlement and voila, no help from the US
🤥 Residents of Valdai in Russia's Novgorod Oblast say they neither saw nor heard any drone strikes or air defence activity on the night of 28-29 December, despite Russian authorities' claims of a drone attack on Russian leader Vladimir Putin's residence.
December 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pu's cheap lying stunt exposed the uselessness of any US security guarantees to Ukraine (or to NATO members fwiw). If Trump believes the aggressor immediately and unconditionally without any evidence, Pu can accuse Ukraine of violating the terms of any peace settlement and voila, no help from the US
Is the #Trump class #Defiant a #battleship or arsenal ship? No, it's an arsehole ship.
youtu.be/qvUbx9TvOwk?...
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Bringing Back the Battleship? - Railguns, US Shipbuilding and a 35,000 ton bad idea?
YouTube video by Perun
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Is the #Trump class #Defiant a #battleship or arsenal ship? No, it's an arsehole ship.
youtu.be/qvUbx9TvOwk?...
youtu.be/qvUbx9TvOwk?...
What will be the future of skiing in North America when our governments want to double down on fossil fuel extraction?
“Nature reclaiming” suggests inevitability. Ghost ski resorts are the result of human climate change, followed by human abandonment. Nothing about this is natural.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What will be the future of skiing in North America when our governments want to double down on fossil fuel extraction?
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Why do so many people think that giving Putin Donbas will satiate his imperial ambitions in Ukraine? Remember, in February 2022, Putin sent his tanks to Kyiv, not Donetsk.
December 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Why do so many people think that giving Putin Donbas will satiate his imperial ambitions in Ukraine? Remember, in February 2022, Putin sent his tanks to Kyiv, not Donetsk.
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No shortage of Japanese wartime (propaganda) periodicals available in English for students to explore as (challenging) primary sources:
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
archive.org/search?query...
Contemporary Japan 1941-5
froginawell.net/frog/sources...
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
archive.org/search?query...
Contemporary Japan 1941-5
froginawell.net/frog/sources...
December 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
No shortage of Japanese wartime (propaganda) periodicals available in English for students to explore as (challenging) primary sources:
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
archive.org/search?query...
Contemporary Japan 1941-5
froginawell.net/frog/sources...
Tokyo Gazette 1937-42
archive.org/search?query...
Contemporary Japan 1941-5
froginawell.net/frog/sources...
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New Podcast Episode
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
December 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New Podcast Episode
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
🚢 Ghost ships. Fake identities. Oil on the move.
Remy Osman joins Chris to expose Putin’s shadow fleet—how “zombie” tankers dodge sanctions, why Singapore matters, and why everyone can see it… but no one stops it.
Audio: pod.fo/e/36dfd8
YouTube: youtu.be/8gIaVW7FzWs
"There is no amount of arms, materiel, or support that the West can give #Ukraine that will dissuade #Putin from his ultimate vision of reunifying #Kyiv and #Moscow and of seizing Ukrainian sovereignty for his own."
Putin will never be convinced he will lose in Ukraine. He can only be outlasted.
My latest for @foreignpolicy.com, calling for a wholesale strategic shift in Ukraine:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/p...
My latest for @foreignpolicy.com, calling for a wholesale strategic shift in Ukraine:
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/p...
Putin Will Never Compromise on Ukraine
Russia’s president is too committed to his own fantasies to ever accept Ukraine’s independence.
foreignpolicy.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The thing that is so idiotic about the Kushner-Witkoff approach to Russia—that business deals can solve all!—is that... we tried this already.
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Trump’s Inner Circle Sees Russia as an El Dorado for Business, but Pitfalls Abound
Veteran U.S. investors say Vladimir Putin’s Russia will remain a treacherous business environment.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The thing that is so idiotic about the Kushner-Witkoff approach to Russia—that business deals can solve all!—is that... we tried this already.
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
It was called the 1990s. And all it did was enrich Russia, entrench corruption, and set the stage for Russian neo-imperialism.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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#OTD in 1941, it was Black Christmas in #Hongkong when Governor Sir Mark Aitchison Young surrendered the colony to the Japanese at the Peninsula Hotel. Those of C Force surviving the battle, would have to endure 3 years, 8 months, and 4 days of brutal incarceration under the Japanese...
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A must read.
I’m struck by two things: the significant number of my fellow Americans who are active participants in this regime’s abuse of our neighbors, and the enormity of what we have lost—as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.
I’m struck by two things: the significant number of my fellow Americans who are active participants in this regime’s abuse of our neighbors, and the enormity of what we have lost—as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A must read.
I’m struck by two things: the significant number of my fellow Americans who are active participants in this regime’s abuse of our neighbors, and the enormity of what we have lost—as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.
I’m struck by two things: the significant number of my fellow Americans who are active participants in this regime’s abuse of our neighbors, and the enormity of what we have lost—as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
2025 has been a great year for military history books!
Right now, take 25% off more than 150 titles published this year! Use code D25-YR at check out to receive your discount.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/39w29f2m
#militaryhistory #2025books #booksale
Right now, take 25% off more than 150 titles published this year! Use code D25-YR at check out to receive your discount.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/39w29f2m
#militaryhistory #2025books #booksale