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Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
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Reforms of the Reckless
On The New York Times Losing Their Minds
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December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
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I am pleased to report that we are very much in the game gentlemen, very much in the game
November 5, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I am pleased to report that we are very much in the game gentlemen, very much in the game
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My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.
October 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.
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everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87
The husky-voiced, chain-smoking actor had a reputation as a fiercely independent, free-spirited woman
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September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
this quote has lived in my head rent-free since 2018.
(from the Talking Politics podcast, the episode on Tooze's Crashed)
(from the Talking Politics podcast, the episode on Tooze's Crashed)
September 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
this quote has lived in my head rent-free since 2018.
(from the Talking Politics podcast, the episode on Tooze's Crashed)
(from the Talking Politics podcast, the episode on Tooze's Crashed)
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I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...
Reflections on Violence
Two Reasons for Kirk's Murder
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September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wrote about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...
read theory
things that keep me up at night more than the whole nuclear Armageddon business
September 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
read theory
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Huge news. I am so happy that Elizabeth Tsurkov is free at last!
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Huge news. I am so happy that Elizabeth Tsurkov is free at last!
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It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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Imperial Wars Always Come Home: patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-w...
August 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Imperial Wars Always Come Home: patrickwyman.substack.com/p/imperial-w...
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If there is a strategy to keep the US on board as long as possible, it surely by now seems to cost so much attention and resources that not much is left for thinking through European alternatives. All the while US domestic politics is largely ignored and its ramifications for US foreign policy.
Too much attention in Europe being paid to Trump's incoherently futile diplomacy and not enough to his dangerously destabilising actions in US domestic politics
August 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If there is a strategy to keep the US on board as long as possible, it surely by now seems to cost so much attention and resources that not much is left for thinking through European alternatives. All the while US domestic politics is largely ignored and its ramifications for US foreign policy.
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Unbelievable. The Defense Ministry in heart of #Damascus under wave of israeli airstrikes.
It's unprecedented, even under Assad Regime no Ministry was ever bombed.
It's unprecedented, even under Assad Regime no Ministry was ever bombed.
July 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Unbelievable. The Defense Ministry in heart of #Damascus under wave of israeli airstrikes.
It's unprecedented, even under Assad Regime no Ministry was ever bombed.
It's unprecedented, even under Assad Regime no Ministry was ever bombed.
fucking Cheese…
BREAKING NEWS: The Pentagon is halting some promised munitions to Ukraine, citing worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles have fallen too low.
Pentagon halting some promised munitions for Ukraine
The decision was driven by the Pentagon’s policy chief, Elbridge Colby, and was made after a review of Pentagon munitions stockpiles.
www.politico.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
fucking Cheese…
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A lot of the Trump-curious restraint crowd was operating on the assumption that wars only happen because hawkish American politicians let them.
June 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A lot of the Trump-curious restraint crowd was operating on the assumption that wars only happen because hawkish American politicians let them.
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"the consequence of the visible battlefield and the widespread employment of sensor-strike complexes has been to make surprise even more important – a virtually necessary precondition of successful manoeuvre in any form."
"the consequence of the visible battlefield and the widespread employment of sensor-strike complexes has been to make surprise even more important – a virtually necessary precondition of successful manoeuvre in any form."
Ukraine, the future of war is now
Ukraine’s strikes into Russia illustrate the historic role of surprise in battlefield success. They also test the country's fragile relationship with the fractious leadership of the United States.
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June 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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"the consequence of the visible battlefield and the widespread employment of sensor-strike complexes has been to make surprise even more important – a virtually necessary precondition of successful manoeuvre in any form."
"the consequence of the visible battlefield and the widespread employment of sensor-strike complexes has been to make surprise even more important – a virtually necessary precondition of successful manoeuvre in any form."
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Can't be overstated how lucky Syria is that the regime fell during this period in which both GCC vs Turkey/Qatar(/MB) and GCC vs Iran conflicts which drove so much instability in the region over the past 15 years are both in periods of detente. Case in point MBS and Erdogan's efforts re: sanctions
May 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Can't be overstated how lucky Syria is that the regime fell during this period in which both GCC vs Turkey/Qatar(/MB) and GCC vs Iran conflicts which drove so much instability in the region over the past 15 years are both in periods of detente. Case in point MBS and Erdogan's efforts re: sanctions
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Trump says he's "ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness"
May 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Trump says he's "ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness"
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Pericles’ “your empire is like a tiranny” quote remains one of the most overlooked lines in the whole canon of western classical literature.
Here. I've written about Steve Miran's earlier plan to use tariffs as a form of "burden sharing" (extortion) against American allies.
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The American Delian League
Alliances as Extortion Rackets
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April 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Pericles’ “your empire is like a tiranny” quote remains one of the most overlooked lines in the whole canon of western classical literature.
“The idea that a global order has to arise from rational or self-conscious planning is itself a kind of academic vanity. Power shapes political arrangements whether it’s wielded carefully or not.”
insanity. but insane people create global orders too open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
Geopolitics, But Make It Dumb and Personal
Why we should think seriously about Trump’s neo-feudal order—even if he doesn't.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“The idea that a global order has to arise from rational or self-conscious planning is itself a kind of academic vanity. Power shapes political arrangements whether it’s wielded carefully or not.”
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Men will literally ruin the world economy instead of going to therapy
April 3, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Men will literally ruin the world economy instead of going to therapy
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A+ spinzone, 10/10 bullshit (STRAIGHT TO JAIL DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200)
March 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A+ spinzone, 10/10 bullshit (STRAIGHT TO JAIL DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200)