Ken Briggs III 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@ken-briggs.com
Writer on history, foreign affairs, and technology.
Graduate student studying the geopolitics of the energy transition.
Consultant and licensed engineer supporting energy startups.
https://current-history.com/
buymeacoffee.com/currenthistory/
Graduate student studying the geopolitics of the energy transition.
Consultant and licensed engineer supporting energy startups.
https://current-history.com/
buymeacoffee.com/currenthistory/
New post is up! AI is throwing global energy markets off balance. Data centers are driving demand that shifts influence toward countries with minerals, storage, and power capacity.
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#Geopolitics #AI #criticalminerals #energy #technology
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#Geopolitics #AI #criticalminerals #energy #technology
December 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New post is up! AI is throwing global energy markets off balance. Data centers are driving demand that shifts influence toward countries with minerals, storage, and power capacity.
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#Geopolitics #AI #criticalminerals #energy #technology
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#Geopolitics #AI #criticalminerals #energy #technology
New post on NATO’s agreement to more than double its defense spending pledge. Its a major foreign policy victory for the Trump administration.
#foreignpolicy #NATO #defense #europe #ukraine
current-history.com/p/a-victory-...
#foreignpolicy #NATO #defense #europe #ukraine
current-history.com/p/a-victory-...
July 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
New post on NATO’s agreement to more than double its defense spending pledge. Its a major foreign policy victory for the Trump administration.
#foreignpolicy #NATO #defense #europe #ukraine
current-history.com/p/a-victory-...
#foreignpolicy #NATO #defense #europe #ukraine
current-history.com/p/a-victory-...
🚨New post on immigration and the Mexican-American War🚨
The war created a border cutting across ethnic and cultural lines. Border security is not a bad thing, but it requires understanding this history.
#history #politics #immigration #borders #america #mexico
current-history.com/p/the-war-th...
The war created a border cutting across ethnic and cultural lines. Border security is not a bad thing, but it requires understanding this history.
#history #politics #immigration #borders #america #mexico
current-history.com/p/the-war-th...
July 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨New post on immigration and the Mexican-American War🚨
The war created a border cutting across ethnic and cultural lines. Border security is not a bad thing, but it requires understanding this history.
#history #politics #immigration #borders #america #mexico
current-history.com/p/the-war-th...
The war created a border cutting across ethnic and cultural lines. Border security is not a bad thing, but it requires understanding this history.
#history #politics #immigration #borders #america #mexico
current-history.com/p/the-war-th...
My latest post covers Israel-Iran conflict and what it says about the shifting landscape in the Middle-East. This was written before Trump signaled the US might engage directly (a bad idea, imo).
#foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #iran #israel
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #iran #israel
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
June 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My latest post covers Israel-Iran conflict and what it says about the shifting landscape in the Middle-East. This was written before Trump signaled the US might engage directly (a bad idea, imo).
#foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #iran #israel
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
#foreignpolicy #geopolitics #middleeast #iran #israel
open.substack.com/pub/currenth...
A week on from the 81st anniversary of D-Day, Eisenhower’s words still echo: “We must find some way to work to peace… to gain an eternal peace for this world.” As war spreads globally, his message is more urgent than ever.
current-history.com/p/rememberin...
current-history.com/p/rememberin...
June 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
A week on from the 81st anniversary of D-Day, Eisenhower’s words still echo: “We must find some way to work to peace… to gain an eternal peace for this world.” As war spreads globally, his message is more urgent than ever.
current-history.com/p/rememberin...
current-history.com/p/rememberin...
He was playing the long game all along
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
He was playing the long game all along
Aaaand the huge rift that everyone knew would happen between two billionaires with ginormous egos finally happened.
June 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Aaaand the huge rift that everyone knew would happen between two billionaires with ginormous egos finally happened.
My first thought after the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 was the two-state solution was dead. Not because that was what I wanted, but because it set in motion a series of actions that would inevitably lead to what is in the photo.
June 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My first thought after the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 was the two-state solution was dead. Not because that was what I wanted, but because it set in motion a series of actions that would inevitably lead to what is in the photo.
More evidence the world needs to rethink the capabilities of #russia compared to #ukraine. Ukraine used drones to attack five air bases in Russia, including two in the far east: one in Irkutsk, which is roughly 2600 miles from Ukraine, and another in Amur oblast an additional 1,000 miles away.
June 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New post out on Trump’s Middle-East dealmaking. With over $2 trillion in agreements across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, his administration is betting on economic influence to reshape U.S. power in the region.
#middleeast #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #trump
current-history.com/p/deals-over...
#middleeast #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #trump
current-history.com/p/deals-over...
May 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New post out on Trump’s Middle-East dealmaking. With over $2 trillion in agreements across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, his administration is betting on economic influence to reshape U.S. power in the region.
#middleeast #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #trump
current-history.com/p/deals-over...
#middleeast #foreignpolicy #geopolitics #trump
current-history.com/p/deals-over...
This is a long-term problem for the U.S. In a multipolar world, maintaining global goodwill will be even more important.
#politics #softpower #geopolitics
#politics #softpower #geopolitics
May 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is a long-term problem for the U.S. In a multipolar world, maintaining global goodwill will be even more important.
#politics #softpower #geopolitics
#politics #softpower #geopolitics
I've been neglecting to share my latest posts, so trying to rectify that. This one touches on the misguided strategy of the Trump administration to cozy up to Russia.
#trump #foreignpolicy #russia #china #history
current-history.com/p/splitting-...
#trump #foreignpolicy #russia #china #history
current-history.com/p/splitting-...
May 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've been neglecting to share my latest posts, so trying to rectify that. This one touches on the misguided strategy of the Trump administration to cozy up to Russia.
#trump #foreignpolicy #russia #china #history
current-history.com/p/splitting-...
#trump #foreignpolicy #russia #china #history
current-history.com/p/splitting-...
Remind me why so many people are cowering in fear of this administration?
April 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Remind me why so many people are cowering in fear of this administration?
Vance’s entitlement is insane. I’m of Scots-Irish descent too. I have ancestors who literally fought in the Revolution. That does not entitle me to a special place here.
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Vance’s entitlement is insane. I’m of Scots-Irish descent too. I have ancestors who literally fought in the Revolution. That does not entitle me to a special place here.
I found it. The wildest timeline in the history of social media.
April 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I found it. The wildest timeline in the history of social media.
Yes, because if we know anything about Donald Trump, its that he has a completely conventional approach to the separation of powers.
April 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Yes, because if we know anything about Donald Trump, its that he has a completely conventional approach to the separation of powers.
Thoughts and prayers for Scott
April 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Thoughts and prayers for Scott
Its fun sometimes to go back and read the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence.
April 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Its fun sometimes to go back and read the list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence.
Three options here:
1. He's willing to say anything to stir up his base
2. He's crazy and detached from reality
3. All of the above.
1. He's willing to say anything to stir up his base
2. He's crazy and detached from reality
3. All of the above.
March 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Three options here:
1. He's willing to say anything to stir up his base
2. He's crazy and detached from reality
3. All of the above.
1. He's willing to say anything to stir up his base
2. He's crazy and detached from reality
3. All of the above.
I don't think this a political winner.
March 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I don't think this a political winner.
Glad to see some fight from these law firms. Standing down only invites more aggression.
March 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Glad to see some fight from these law firms. Standing down only invites more aggression.