After many years of 🥝foreign domination🥝, the Australian Institute of International Affairs is finally led by an Australian! 🦘

And it was great to be seated by chance at the ceremony next to former @aiianational.bsky.social intern Minh Phuong Vu, who is also an Australian!

Thanks ChatGPT!

And if Russia doesn’t like the idea of foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, maybe they should, in the words of Boris Johnson “bog off” themselves.

Great to also see a decent Australian contingent at the conference, and to catch up with Ukrainian friends. 3/3

Key takeaways: the nature of combat is changing fast, the best possible post-conflict security guarantee is a strong Ukraine tied to the EU with strong international support. The presence of the coalition of the willing” to monitor the peace cannot be tied to Russian preferences. 2/3

I'm guessing a bunch of Danish security scholars just thought of a cool new topic for conference presentations.

Should’ve started with this.