Matt Armstrong
@mountainrunner.us
Former Gov w BBG, finishing PhD @ King’s College London on US reax to Ru political warfare ‘45-‘65; gravel rider, trail runner, frmr IM junkie; in Boston 🇺🇸after 10yrs in 🇨🇭&🇬🇧. Sanctioned by Russia. Mountainrunner.substack.com
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More than two dozen retired senior US
military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is "unlawful and unwise," as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA
military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is "unlawful and unwise," as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA
July 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
More than two dozen retired senior US
military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is "unlawful and unwise," as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA
military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is "unlawful and unwise," as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA
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RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17
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“N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services,” the NWS leaders write in the letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.
Former Weather Service Leaders Warn Staffing Cuts Could Lead to ‘Loss of Life’
The former agency directors say current employees will face an “impossible task” to maintain service just as hurricane season begins.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services,” the NWS leaders write in the letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”
Across East Central Europe, Russia "found many long-standing national disputes and a patchwork of conflicting national claims in being; it did not invent them… it has manipulated them ruthlessly to enhance its own monolithic control and to strengthen its chosen instrument of local rule.” — 1951
February 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Across East Central Europe, Russia "found many long-standing national disputes and a patchwork of conflicting national claims in being; it did not invent them… it has manipulated them ruthlessly to enhance its own monolithic control and to strengthen its chosen instrument of local rule.” — 1951