Nardis
@n4rdis.bsky.social
Former army and NATO.
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🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
June 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.
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Remember all the American basing in Europe Trump implied could be abandoned over their supposed NATO utility? None of the current logistics movements in the face of the Israel Iran-war would be possible without them.
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Remember all the American basing in Europe Trump implied could be abandoned over their supposed NATO utility? None of the current logistics movements in the face of the Israel Iran-war would be possible without them.
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The Khamenei regime for decades pursued aggressive operations that left deep grudges among European and Arab states that now won't lift a finger to stop Israel while failing to build effective alliances that would lead Russia, China or anyone else to lift a finger to help Iran
June 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Khamenei regime for decades pursued aggressive operations that left deep grudges among European and Arab states that now won't lift a finger to stop Israel while failing to build effective alliances that would lead Russia, China or anyone else to lift a finger to help Iran
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Several news stories today report that China is signaling openness to trade talks, which fits with patterns of Chinese diplomacy. As I wrote recently: "Beijing has shown a strong capacity for retaliation and a tactical openness to negotiation, but not a willingness to kowtow."
My latest @foreignaffairs.com I explain why this time Beijing, if necessary, is ready to decouple from the US. Chinese leadership harbor no illusion that China can win a trade war with the US. But they are willing to risk one that Trump might lose. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/how-ch...
How China Armed Itself for the Trade War
Beijing’s high-risk approach to its economic confrontation with Washington.
www.foreignaffairs.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Several news stories today report that China is signaling openness to trade talks, which fits with patterns of Chinese diplomacy. As I wrote recently: "Beijing has shown a strong capacity for retaliation and a tactical openness to negotiation, but not a willingness to kowtow."
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Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
April 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague
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“At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars.”
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...
I Trained With Russian Diplomats. I Can Tell You How They Work - The Moscow Times
Opinion | Last week, while Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities, the Kremlin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev landed in Washington with an offer of economic cooperation.
www.themoscowtimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
“At MGIMO, we were taught to cite international law while violating its spirit, to defend norms while dismantling them and to speak of peace while justifying and waging wars.”
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...
www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/i...
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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We are not in a modern economy. We are not in a mercantilist economy. We are not in a Middle Ages economy. We are in a barter economy. Literally a pre-historic economy. Even hunter-gatherer societies had division of labor.
April 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are not in a modern economy. We are not in a mercantilist economy. We are not in a Middle Ages economy. We are in a barter economy. Literally a pre-historic economy. Even hunter-gatherer societies had division of labor.
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You guys wanna see a dead body 🤣💀
April 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You guys wanna see a dead body 🤣💀
"The wrong starting point when trying to understand generative AI is to treat what it does as creation. It’s not. It’s consumption. The users don’t want to make things, they want to have things. The machine doesn’t invent, it assembles. It’s the production line of a commodity producer. "
April 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"The wrong starting point when trying to understand generative AI is to treat what it does as creation. It’s not. It’s consumption. The users don’t want to make things, they want to have things. The machine doesn’t invent, it assembles. It’s the production line of a commodity producer. "
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Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.
April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.
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@jonlemire.bsky.social: “For the first time since Trump reclaimed the White House, some of his close allies and aides are privately acknowledging that a president who returned to office after a historic political comeback has been knocked off his stride.” theatln.tc/IfPVn1DP
April 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@jonlemire.bsky.social: “For the first time since Trump reclaimed the White House, some of his close allies and aides are privately acknowledging that a president who returned to office after a historic political comeback has been knocked off his stride.” theatln.tc/IfPVn1DP
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“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Russia Is Losing the War of Attrition
Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse. That makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.
www.theatlantic.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Ukraine is not on the verge of collapse, and it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is losing the attritional war, which makes the Trump administration’s decisions particularly shortsighted and tragic.”
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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For years Trump & Vance have been telling us that America shouldn't get involved in other countries and in just the past 15 days they want to do that with Greenland, Panama, Canada, and now Gaza.
February 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
For years Trump & Vance have been telling us that America shouldn't get involved in other countries and in just the past 15 days they want to do that with Greenland, Panama, Canada, and now Gaza.
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The distance from the center of Donetsk to the center of Pokrovsk is about 100-110 road km. That's about the same distance as from Omaha Beach to Cherbourg. Imagine the allies threatening Cherbourg in July of 1947, three years after their landings. That's how this has been going.
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The distance from the center of Donetsk to the center of Pokrovsk is about 100-110 road km. That's about the same distance as from Omaha Beach to Cherbourg. Imagine the allies threatening Cherbourg in July of 1947, three years after their landings. That's how this has been going.
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This could fix everything.
Mexico, Canada, and China Cut off Elon Musk’s Supply of Ketamine
The decision drew howls of protest from Musk.
www.borowitzreport.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This could fix everything.
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DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2024 at 3:12 AM
DAMMIT NPR.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded.
Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.
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This is a great and insightful piece for Christmas reading by @Mpolymer who knows the streets of Syria like few others. This is a moment of opportunity for the West. There are surely risks but great opportunities too. We must work with HTS and hold them to their word. newlinesmag.com/argument/syr...
Syria’s New Era and Its Opportunities for the US
The fall of Assad opens up possibilities for Washington that it should be quick to explore by engaging with the country’s new leadership and signaling clear preferences
newlinesmag.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:26 PM
This is a great and insightful piece for Christmas reading by @Mpolymer who knows the streets of Syria like few others. This is a moment of opportunity for the West. There are surely risks but great opportunities too. We must work with HTS and hold them to their word. newlinesmag.com/argument/syr...