Jake
@jacobberah.bsky.social
Nearly-Doctor of International Relations and Political Science. Former 🇦🇺 diplomat: Afghanistan, US, Indo-Pac Strategic Policy.
Interested in international security policy, conflict and peacebuilding, and professional integrity in public/political service.
Interested in international security policy, conflict and peacebuilding, and professional integrity in public/political service.
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MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
February 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
For the uninitiated, the AUKUS agreement provides that the US can keep this money and decide later to hand over exactly 0 submarines. That Trump likes this deal is one of the strongest pieces of evidence to date that AUKUS is contrary to Australia's interests.
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
Deposit paid: Trump ‘very aware’ of AUKUS as Marles hands over $800m
Canberra has sent the first down payment of a total $4.7 billion to prop up US shipbuilding efforts ahead of the planned purchase of nuclear-powered submarines.
www.theage.com.au
February 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
For the uninitiated, the AUKUS agreement provides that the US can keep this money and decide later to hand over exactly 0 submarines. That Trump likes this deal is one of the strongest pieces of evidence to date that AUKUS is contrary to Australia's interests.
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
www.theage.com.au/world/north-...
Just taking a break from my summer holiday to confirm that I will not rule out using military force to take control of the King Island Dairy. Please direct any questions to my Chief of Military below.
January 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Just taking a break from my summer holiday to confirm that I will not rule out using military force to take control of the King Island Dairy. Please direct any questions to my Chief of Military below.
Hilarious. The Victorian Liberal party is truly an ungovernable, unelectable rabble. It isn't a mainstream political alternative, it's a deranged clubhouse for fringe weirdos to cosplay politics on their extreme views on niche issues. The party of the drunk, crazy Uncle/Aunt at the Christmas table.
#BREAKING NEWS: John Pesutto has been ousted as the Victorian Liberal leader after a successful challenge by Brad Battin
John Pesutto ousted as Victorian Liberal leader after successful challenge by Brad Battin
Leadership spill came after the opposition leader lost a defamation suit brought on by Moira Deeming, who returns to party room
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Hilarious. The Victorian Liberal party is truly an ungovernable, unelectable rabble. It isn't a mainstream political alternative, it's a deranged clubhouse for fringe weirdos to cosplay politics on their extreme views on niche issues. The party of the drunk, crazy Uncle/Aunt at the Christmas table.
Post an image from a movie that traumatized you 🍿
Bridges of Madison County was a helluva thing to endure as an 11 year old on a 16 hour long haul flight on those old 747s with a single movie screen for the whole cabin 😱
Bridges of Madison County was a helluva thing to endure as an 11 year old on a 16 hour long haul flight on those old 747s with a single movie screen for the whole cabin 😱
December 12, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Post an image from a movie that traumatized you 🍿
Bridges of Madison County was a helluva thing to endure as an 11 year old on a 16 hour long haul flight on those old 747s with a single movie screen for the whole cabin 😱
Bridges of Madison County was a helluva thing to endure as an 11 year old on a 16 hour long haul flight on those old 747s with a single movie screen for the whole cabin 😱
Hot take: Palestinians in Gaza shouldn't be bombed for the crimes of Hamas, and Jews in Australia shouldn't be targeted for the crimes of the Israeli Government. No, they're not morally equivalent. They don't need to be morally equivalent for both to be true.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Car set alight, houses vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney
NSW Police is investigating after a car was set alight and multiple houses were sprayed with anti-Israel graffiti at Woollahra in Sydney's east.
www.abc.net.au
December 10, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Hot take: Palestinians in Gaza shouldn't be bombed for the crimes of Hamas, and Jews in Australia shouldn't be targeted for the crimes of the Israeli Government. No, they're not morally equivalent. They don't need to be morally equivalent for both to be true.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
"Being a TV news host, I think, prepares you for most things in a position [Secretary of Defence of the most powerful nuclear-armed military in the world] like this..." Ms Hegseth said.
Meritocracy is back, everyone 🤡
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Meritocracy is back, everyone 🤡
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Trump's Pentagon pick says he'll 'fight like hell' for the job in face of 'smear' campaign
Donald Trump's defence secretary nominee says he's the victim of a media smear campaign, and he'll "fight like hell" for the job — despite reports the president-elect is already considering replacing ...
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2024 at 2:05 AM
"Being a TV news host, I think, prepares you for most things in a position [Secretary of Defence of the most powerful nuclear-armed military in the world] like this..." Ms Hegseth said.
Meritocracy is back, everyone 🤡
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Meritocracy is back, everyone 🤡
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
In absolutely classic #auspol form, Niki Savva doesn't waste a word and doesn't miss by so much as a millimeter in summing up the near-terminal malaise suffocating this government. She could not be more right.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
If Albanese wins the next election he should celebrate, then step aside
If Anthony Albanese loses next year, which once seemed improbable and now looks possible, he will shoulder much of the blame and his legacy will be trashed.
www.theage.com.au
December 4, 2024 at 10:38 PM
In absolutely classic #auspol form, Niki Savva doesn't waste a word and doesn't miss by so much as a millimeter in summing up the near-terminal malaise suffocating this government. She could not be more right.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Community support for things like #AUKUS is easy to manage when you effectively bypass it, and then claim to have it anyway on the basis of broadly defined, generic national polls.
November 17, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Community support for things like #AUKUS is easy to manage when you effectively bypass it, and then claim to have it anyway on the basis of broadly defined, generic national polls.
My first observation in this new place, in the lengthening shadow of the Election of Rage, is that it is already feeling decidedly quieter in the old place, while this new place seems to be bubbling up with activity. And that is probably for the best. Dum spiro, spero.
November 14, 2024 at 9:25 AM
My first observation in this new place, in the lengthening shadow of the Election of Rage, is that it is already feeling decidedly quieter in the old place, while this new place seems to be bubbling up with activity. And that is probably for the best. Dum spiro, spero.