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Geopolitics. Here to learn. In Helsinki, Finland.
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In my view part of this is also about how some European far right populist parties like FdI, SD and PVV are now enmeshed in trade-offs of governance and deeper links to specific client groups in ways that constrain their ability to fully pursue populist disruption.
New from me - is it possible we are actually at peak populism? This post is an exercise in working through a scenario - I may very well be wrong. But also, outside of America, I think something is shifting. Because of America. 1/n
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Twilight of the Populists?
Perhaps it's possible that, despite it all, we have reached peak populism
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March 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In my view part of this is also about how some European far right populist parties like FdI, SD and PVV are now enmeshed in trade-offs of governance and deeper links to specific client groups in ways that constrain their ability to fully pursue populist disruption.
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AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
March 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.
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Have now seen the full Oval Office video.
I think it is significant that the meeting was going quite well until JD Vance torpedoed it and suggested Zelenskyy had disrespected Trump. Unfortunately, Trump being so easy to manipulate, can work both ways.
I think it is significant that the meeting was going quite well until JD Vance torpedoed it and suggested Zelenskyy had disrespected Trump. Unfortunately, Trump being so easy to manipulate, can work both ways.
February 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Have now seen the full Oval Office video.
I think it is significant that the meeting was going quite well until JD Vance torpedoed it and suggested Zelenskyy had disrespected Trump. Unfortunately, Trump being so easy to manipulate, can work both ways.
I think it is significant that the meeting was going quite well until JD Vance torpedoed it and suggested Zelenskyy had disrespected Trump. Unfortunately, Trump being so easy to manipulate, can work both ways.
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“This war will continue as long as Putin believes Ukraine has no right to exist. And everyone who believes otherwise is either a fool or on the Russian payroll”
@gideonrachman.bsky.social does Lunch (actually Breakfast) with the FT with Ukraine's ex-foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba
on.ft.com/3OuRbgk
@gideonrachman.bsky.social does Lunch (actually Breakfast) with the FT with Ukraine's ex-foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba
on.ft.com/3OuRbgk
Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba: ‘If it continues like this, we will lose the war’
[FREE TO READ] The former foreign minister on recent military setbacks — and why Zelenskyy and Putin both see Trump as an opportunity
on.ft.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:35 PM
“This war will continue as long as Putin believes Ukraine has no right to exist. And everyone who believes otherwise is either a fool or on the Russian payroll”
@gideonrachman.bsky.social does Lunch (actually Breakfast) with the FT with Ukraine's ex-foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba
on.ft.com/3OuRbgk
@gideonrachman.bsky.social does Lunch (actually Breakfast) with the FT with Ukraine's ex-foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba
on.ft.com/3OuRbgk
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The war against Ukraine, on a strategic level, should end with the stabilization of relations between the West and Russia. The stabilization has not yet been achieved. Like during the Cold War, the West has to define and defend red lines, or Russia will keep pushing them back.
November 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
The war against Ukraine, on a strategic level, should end with the stabilization of relations between the West and Russia. The stabilization has not yet been achieved. Like during the Cold War, the West has to define and defend red lines, or Russia will keep pushing them back.
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I was skeptical of the “X is slowly cooking your brain” discourse because I don’t think my ideological worldview has shifted much, but having now experienced both Bluesky and X I think the big difference is I got used to fighting/provocation as the standard “tone” of posting without realizing it.
November 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM
I was skeptical of the “X is slowly cooking your brain” discourse because I don’t think my ideological worldview has shifted much, but having now experienced both Bluesky and X I think the big difference is I got used to fighting/provocation as the standard “tone” of posting without realizing it.