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Elisabeth Vallet
@elisabethvallet.bsky.social
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Border scholar
Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦
Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand
@UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social
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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · Mar 5
No, borders are NOT wide open. Period. #stopthelie

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2h
Ontological security will be much easier to explain in the classroom now
(Yes you should freak out. this is not a meme)

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 12h
It is less a domino theory than smashing the entire domino table
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h
After Venezuela, Europe is starting to think that Donald Trump may be serious about annexing Greenland. Share Harris, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Jonathan Lemire report:
Is Greenland Next?
After Venezuela, Europeans think Trump may actually be serious.
bit.ly

Reposted by Élisabeth Vallet

washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h
A Minnesota hotel operator says it is working to accommodate federal law enforcement officers after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused Hilton Hotels of carrying out a “coordinated campaign” to refuse them rooms in Minneapolis.
Hilton property refused to book hotel rooms for ICE in Minneapolis
The operator for a Hampton Inn in Minnesota said canceling rooms for Homeland Security officers “was inconsistent” with a policy of welcoming all.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Élisabeth Vallet

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses.

(Published Nov. 2025)
How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Élisabeth Vallet

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
It’s time for soft secession
How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
www.motherjones.com

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theatlantic.com
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12h
After Venezuela, Europe is starting to think that Donald Trump may be serious about annexing Greenland. Share Harris, Isaac Stanley-Becker, and Jonathan Lemire report:
Is Greenland Next?
After Venezuela, Europeans think Trump may actually be serious.
bit.ly

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 17h
3 paths:
- transition
- criminalized continuity
- yet another forever war
The End of the Beginning in Venezuela
The real challenges and risks for U.S. policy are still to come.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 17h
Meanwhile.

Reposted by Christina Pagel, Élisabeth Vallet

socialmedialab.ca
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 18h
"US attack on Greenland would mean end of Nato, says Danish PM" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US attack on Greenland would mean end of Nato, says Danish PM
Mette Frederiksen criticises Donald Trump’s ‘unacceptable pressure’ as Greenland counterpart condemns ‘fantasies’
www.theguardian.com

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 21h
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...
Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
www.nytimes.com

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 21h
Looking for Ice law? www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice
As the Arctic melts and people spend more time there, defining our relationship to sea ice becomes more necessary.
www.theatlantic.com

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 21h
Cette musique qui roule comme des vagues, douce et enveloppante, qui sentait le sud dans ses versions romanesques et sombres, reflet d'un mode de vie en sépia est vouée à disparaître
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Last Days of the Southern Drawl
By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
www.theatlantic.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22h
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Brendan Nyhan, Michael A. Clemens , and 16 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:

-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

Reposted by Jean Bernatchez

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 1d
Prez' Senior Advisor spouse
Read the U.S. NSS + look at Haushofer's map.
Breathe.

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Quoiqu’on vous dise :
« Nobody knows what happens next »
#mustread
By @profsaunders.bsky.social
What happens now in Venezuela – and the world?
What happens now in Venezuela – and the world? Trump’s no-guardrails foreign policy raises big questions about the global order, not just about who will run Venezuela.
goodauthority.org

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Democracy dies in broad daylight
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
GOP Rep. Pat Harrigan: "There are members of Congress that they just cannot trust. And I understand that. We have folks that are Somali first and not America first."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d
Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies on Venezuela
The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude-pumping infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas.
www.politico.com

Reposted by Élisabeth Vallet

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d
Trump wants to hit cartel targets in Mexico, and the success of the Maduro capture puts more pressure on Sheinbaum to adjust her red lines www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Claudia Sheinbaum’s Impossible Dilemma
The threat of U.S. strikes on cartels could upend a century of delicate relations with Mexico.
www.theatlantic.com

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 2d
For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d
Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: "International law is universal and binding for all states. The American intervention in Venezuela is not in accordance with international law."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
GOP Rep. Pat Harrigan: "There are members of Congress that they just cannot trust. And I understand that. We have folks that are Somali first and not America first."

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
yup

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
A Little reminder that you should never sell national assets to foreign companies, it may snap back at you at some point
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "They took all of our property. It was our property. We built it. And we never had a president that decided to do anything about it. Instead, they fought wars that were 10,000 miles away."

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Gerard Toal @critgeopolitics.bsky.social · 2d
Wild swings between Venezuela and Washington DC by Trump.

Near abroad & inner abroad intimately connected in his head.

“We’ve superseded the Monroe Doctrines..”

Reposted by Élisabeth Vallet, David Darmofal

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "They took all of our property. It was our property. We built it. And we never had a president that decided to do anything about it. Instead, they fought wars that were 10,000 miles away."

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Kidnapper un chef d'État, dynamiter l'ordre international
The ‘Putinization’ of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela
Trump is no longer bending the rules – he is demolishing them, with consequences far beyond Caracas
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Unchecked executive power smashing the dominos table, imperial overstretch.
This thread 👇👌

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
In case you're asking.
Regime change. Does. NOT. work.
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3d
A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Incidemment. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war
But western European societies are in denial
www.economist.com

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 2d
Not every leader in Canada relates to International Law the way we assume they do. Some will be prompt to congratulate the US president. I'll let you do the search.