Barry Ryan
@drbarraoriain.bsky.social
Academic in the field of International Relations.. Security studies, caustic Irish wit & maritime politics, mostly.
if the United States continues to elect and appoint tv commercials to the world stage, then Europe needs to disengage. Face up to our own potential. Our way of life is not America's, nor Russia's, nor China's/
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
if the United States continues to elect and appoint tv commercials to the world stage, then Europe needs to disengage. Face up to our own potential. Our way of life is not America's, nor Russia's, nor China's/
Enemies of the United States are seeing opportunity here. The country is in flux, it's vulnerable.
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Enemies of the United States are seeing opportunity here. The country is in flux, it's vulnerable.
Read Citizen and Subject.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Read Citizen and Subject.
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
The shallowest human in history.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The shallowest human in history.
It's like he's just watched the Godfather
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It's like he's just watched the Godfather
insane take on war
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
insane take on war
and I'm sure he's discussed this at length with his actual NATO allies
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
and I'm sure he's discussed this at length with his actual NATO allies
zombie nuclear war survivors naively venerating the ruins of a gold painted hotel.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
zombie nuclear war survivors naively venerating the ruins of a gold painted hotel.
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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Did you know the UK gov allows bottom trawling in many UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
Sign the petition
Emma Reynolds: stop the industrial fishing frenzy
act.gp
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Did you know the UK gov allows bottom trawling in many UK Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)?
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
It’s like letting a bulldozer destroy a national park.
Want to protect the UK's local fishermen and precious marine life? Please urge the UK gov to ban all industrial fishing from UK MPAs NOW:
act.gp/43gBtgI
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In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
The Lie of the Land: Who Controls the Map? | British Library
Technologist Ed Parsons, Dr Ollie Ballinger and Dr Pragya Agarwal join cultural geographer Mike Duggan in this panel conversation to explore how maps and c
events.bl.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
In the UK this week? Join Bellingcat contributor Dr. Ollie Ballinger at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social for a talk this Friday as he unpacks our investigations into, and the open source tools we built to track suspicious ships operating in international waters. events.bl.uk/events/onlin...
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"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy - Foreign Policy Research Institute
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy
www.fpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"NATO’s new Alliance Maritime Strategy ... re-centers maritime hard power within collective defense, integrates digital transformation and industrial strength, and reframes the oceans as the decisive arena of strategic competition." www.fpri.org/article/2025...
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Need some analysis of the new NATO Maritime Strategy?
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy - Foreign Policy Research Institute
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since 2011. While high-level strategy
www.fpri.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Need some analysis of the new NATO Maritime Strategy?
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
You're in luck, I wrote some just for you.
www.fpri.org/article/2025...
and the morals of alley cats
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
and the morals of alley cats
In Europe he would be a moderate social democrat, but BBC Radio 4 Drivetime spent the evening referring to Mamdani as a 'radical socialist'??
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
In Europe he would be a moderate social democrat, but BBC Radio 4 Drivetime spent the evening referring to Mamdani as a 'radical socialist'??
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Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today at 1109Z what looks like a mass spoof event of AIS-signal took place in central Baltic Sea.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
In an area from approximately Bornholm to mid Gulf of Finland hundreds (thousands?) of new AIS-messages suddenly appeared. A large part of them military ships.
Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Vice Chair Asle Toje, Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, and Gry Larsen. Your Trumpian laureate is openly requesting invasion and war and regional chaos. Are you picking the winner next year too?
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Vice Chair Asle Toje, Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, and Gry Larsen. Your Trumpian laureate is openly requesting invasion and war and regional chaos. Are you picking the winner next year too?
thehill.com/policy/inter...
thehill.com/policy/inter...
This article has exaggerated Ireland's passivity. A muscular maritime security strategy is due in December that aligns Ireland's defence with European Union defensive strategies. The UK will be part of this strategy. The agreement needed is between the EU and the UK, not between Ireland and the UK
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This article has exaggerated Ireland's passivity. A muscular maritime security strategy is due in December that aligns Ireland's defence with European Union defensive strategies. The UK will be part of this strategy. The agreement needed is between the EU and the UK, not between Ireland and the UK
The Strange Case of the 'Man Murdered by an Innocent Man'.
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The Strange Case of the 'Man Murdered by an Innocent Man'.
The Trump Dump/The East Bling?
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Trump Dump/The East Bling?
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Submarine cables are Europe's digital lifelines.
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Submarine cables are Europe's digital lifelines.
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
The recent attacks on Baltic Sea cables demand action to secure them.
Today in Riga, we presented new EU funding worth €20 million to strengthen the security and resilience of Europe’s undersea cable infrastructure ↓
link.europa.eu/3NpWvn
Non-US lives seem to be considered expendable by the Whitehouse regime
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Non-US lives seem to be considered expendable by the Whitehouse regime
Very sorry to hear Daniel.
October 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very sorry to hear Daniel.