Garvan Walshe
@garvanwalshe.org
Civic entrepreneur building tech for democrats of all parties and none at Article7.eu. I also chair Unhack Democracy and write on foreign affairs, defence and democracy.
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During the elections Nawrocki told his country they’d be better off cosying up to Trump rather than building alliances with their neighbours in the EU.
That’s going well I see
That’s going well I see
Poland's President is NOT amused by Trump's latest about-face on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
During the elections Nawrocki told his country they’d be better off cosying up to Trump rather than building alliances with their neighbours in the EU.
That’s going well I see
That’s going well I see
Not a peace plan: but a corrupt deal in the tradition of Ribbentrop-Molotov and Yalta.
The definitive piece on this proposal.
The definitive piece on this proposal.
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Not a peace plan: but a corrupt deal in the tradition of Ribbentrop-Molotov and Yalta.
The definitive piece on this proposal.
The definitive piece on this proposal.
Heh. But 1991 borders - they need to get out of Trandsnistria.
A fully equivalent plan would also have:
- Free and fair elections for national and regional government in Russia
- Lustration for security services personnel
- Natural resources income in a fund administered by Norway
A fully equivalent plan would also have:
- Free and fair elections for national and regional government in Russia
- Lustration for security services personnel
- Natural resources income in a fund administered by Norway
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Heh. But 1991 borders - they need to get out of Trandsnistria.
A fully equivalent plan would also have:
- Free and fair elections for national and regional government in Russia
- Lustration for security services personnel
- Natural resources income in a fund administered by Norway
A fully equivalent plan would also have:
- Free and fair elections for national and regional government in Russia
- Lustration for security services personnel
- Natural resources income in a fund administered by Norway
It seems now that this latest “peace plan” may even have been originally written in Russian.
So you know what to do…
So you know what to do…
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It seems now that this latest “peace plan” may even have been originally written in Russian.
So you know what to do…
So you know what to do…
Fact!*
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky
Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fact!*
Isambard Kitten Brunel sounds like it was named by Gillian Peele. Is that right?
I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Isambard Kitten Brunel sounds like it was named by Gillian Peele. Is that right?
Question for Ukrainian speakers - when Zelensky said Ukraine faces a choice between dignity and an important partner, should this be taken as an allusion to the Revolution of Dignity?
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Question for Ukrainian speakers - when Zelensky said Ukraine faces a choice between dignity and an important partner, should this be taken as an allusion to the Revolution of Dignity?
Evergreen
(I have read the government's consultation paper carefully. Nowhere does it answer this very simple question -what is this policy supposed to achieve?)
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Evergreen
Something for the Nordic and Baltic states to signal to Russia that Europe isn’t backing down
They could start exploring this option…
They could start exploring this option…
Never mind the unrealistic Russia/Trump peace proposal.
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Garvan Walshe: How to stop Russia’s 'shadow fleet' funding their war machine | Conservative Home
Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there's...
conservativehome.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Something for the Nordic and Baltic states to signal to Russia that Europe isn’t backing down
They could start exploring this option…
They could start exploring this option…
Reposted by Garvan Walshe
How to respond to the latest Russian “peace plan”
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How to respond to the latest Russian “peace plan”
Astute
Trump’s problem is that while he may truly want to end this war, and the cost to Ukraine is probably pretty irrelevant to him, Russia clearly does not want the war to end. Trump may think that he’s working with Putin, but Putin isn’t working with him.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Astute
How to respond to the latest Russian “peace plan”
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
How to respond to the latest Russian “peace plan”
Great peace on the massive lack of courage and principle from people we thought were better
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Great peace on the massive lack of courage and principle from people we thought were better
Reposted by Garvan Walshe
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Some notable things in what's being called the "Trump peace plan" but which could not have been more clearly written in Moscow if it came with a 2 for 1 deal on tickets to the Bolshoi Ballet. 🧵
Reposted by Garvan Walshe
Agree. Coalition of the Willing has to stop deluding itself that after a ceasefire on reasonable terms it will send symbolic forces to Ukraine w US backing. UK, France, Germany, Poland &c must invest whatever it takes to defeat RU in UA, or they will have to fight it, without US help, further West.
It’s not a “US plan”, it’s Moscow’s plan, dictated to guilty men in the White House. Setting aside the injustices being pushed on Ukraine, this would be a disaster for European security & guarantee a war with 🇷🇺 in a few years, in which, presumably, 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 are on the same side.
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US plan for Ukraine-Russia peace calls on Kyiv to cede land under its control
Ukrainian officials say President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being pressed to agree to terms negotiated by the US and Russia
on.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Agree. Coalition of the Willing has to stop deluding itself that after a ceasefire on reasonable terms it will send symbolic forces to Ukraine w US backing. UK, France, Germany, Poland &c must invest whatever it takes to defeat RU in UA, or they will have to fight it, without US help, further West.
This is not a peace plan. It’s a list of Russian war aims.
Future historians might want to reconstruct when NATO ceased to exist IN ITS TRANSATLANTIC FORM.
Here’s a hint. Look at this passage of the Ukraine „peace plan“. The US will act as a „mediator“ between NATO and Russia.
As if they were no longer the lead nation.
Here’s a hint. Look at this passage of the Ukraine „peace plan“. The US will act as a „mediator“ between NATO and Russia.
As if they were no longer the lead nation.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is not a peace plan. It’s a list of Russian war aims.
This forced capitulation would be a mortal threat to European security. We can’t allow it to be imposed, not least by a hugely unpopular American president against a country fighting heroically for its life.
Breaking news: Ukraine is coming under intense pressure to accept a sweeping peace plan drawn up by the Trump administration with Moscow’s input to end Russia’s war in the country, according to Ukrainian officials. on.ft.com/3K0onha
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This forced capitulation would be a mortal threat to European security. We can’t allow it to be imposed, not least by a hugely unpopular American president against a country fighting heroically for its life.
Sub: delete “of fascism…World War II” Replace with “Nazi”
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Sub: delete “of fascism…World War II” Replace with “Nazi”
Reposted by Garvan Walshe
Never mind the unrealistic Russia/Trump peace proposal.
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Garvan Walshe: How to stop Russia’s 'shadow fleet' funding their war machine | Conservative Home
Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there's...
conservativehome.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Never mind the unrealistic Russia/Trump peace proposal.
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Not looking good for investors in US shale gas
"The rise of China’s electric truck sector is one of the more under-reported stories in the global energy transition" 💯
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Not looking good for investors in US shale gas
Unmissable event - not least because it features my Unhack Democracy co-founder Zsofia Banuta
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November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Unmissable event - not least because it features my Unhack Democracy co-founder Zsofia Banuta
This is a good way of putting Russian military failure in Ukraine
-- Russia has lost this war multiple times. The problem is that Putin knows his tenure on this planet comes to an end with this war's resolution. And unfortunately, broader Russian politics won't move quickly. But the pain the excess spending (and its opportunity costs within the Russian economy) --
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is a good way of putting Russian military failure in Ukraine
Never mind the unrealistic Russia/Trump peace proposal.
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Garvan Walshe: How to stop Russia’s 'shadow fleet' funding their war machine | Conservative Home
Preventing unseaworthy ships from passing through the Baltic with polluting cargo does not prevent Russia from navigating them. It just requires them to use acceptably safe ships to do so. But there's...
conservativehome.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Never mind the unrealistic Russia/Trump peace proposal.
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
Keep up the pressure on Russian export earnings.
In my column today I try and flesh out Jack Watling’s idea of using environmental measures to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers
conservativehome.com/2025/11/20/g...
What if our obsession with “AI” means we’ve ignored the much bigger revolution going on - in energy generation and storage?
November 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
What if our obsession with “AI” means we’ve ignored the much bigger revolution going on - in energy generation and storage?