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Thomas Moore
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Ex-US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senior Professional Staff Member, failed think-tanker, sometime nuclear policy expert, perpetual Jayhawk, lifetime Bulgakov fan, and amateur Egyptologist.
Fix bayonets.
March 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Oro pro beatissimo Pontifice Francisco Primo:

“Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius.” Ps 40:3.

Per Christum Dominum nostrum,
Amen. ☧
March 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Sorry. Budapest hits for those of us with Eastern European sensibility. Plus Ralph Fiennes and F. Murray Abraham.
March 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
March 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
February 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
La victoire de @corentinbr.bsky.social est totale
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Notwithstanding the dubious legal basis for this (and many other) recent executive orders, will reports continue to be added to the FCPA Database at @TheJusticeDept , and what effect does this order have on existing investigations and enforcement actions regarding any offenses?
February 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
You may learn, as I think I have, that existential questions have never changed. But we have made progress, and it must be safeguarded. My own taken Saint died for it. He is now mocked as being a prig who murdered and burned books. But he did as I stated, above. The tightrope is real.
February 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
February 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’m not going to condone for a second what’s been done, but neither he nor Mark Esper fell on their swords during that dreadful summer. Don’t let disgust with Trump blind you to the fact he cannot have acted alone. In contrast, see a SECDEF with a spine who did:
February 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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January 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
And there I was thinking his views on nuclear deterrence were a bit off. My dear chap, this is an illustration of prolepsis. And a fairly dramatic one, at that.
January 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sensuret III (Hellenised Sesostris) was a XII Dynasty pharaoh who ruled Egypt with repression in the Middle Kingdom. His likenesses all display a frown & large ears to hear plots against him. He used magical curses & spawned the Greek myth of Σέσωστρις. Trump’s official portrait recalls him to me.
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
January 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Your Curtis Condition Status is: Excuse the fuck out of me?!

It’s unprecedented to conclude a retired CJCS, hell any general officer, “undermined” a president before formal investigation or due process as stipulated in UCMJ, let alone YEARS after the alleged conduct and BEFORE any investigation!
January 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Вот вам. К черту с ним. Россия—это не страна. Это ложь с ядерным оружием.
January 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Говно, чистое говно. И полная готовность за более.
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
We, on the other hand, were deterring the old Pact forces in the 1980s. Those plans called for more forward deployed Soviet nuclear forces as in the famous 7 Days to the River Rhine op plan. US target coverage from CONUS is still too small these days, given Oreshnik or 9M729.
January 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Word reached Putin that Ukraine has tested a gay bomb, code named “Verka Serduchka.”
January 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
A little sneak peek at an upcoming talk by me.
January 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
See!👇
January 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Pretty darn sure nothing in the NPT or INFCIRC/66 permits this. Suspend Russian status on the BOG.
January 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Latest Egyptian acquisition: The Sphinx Head of of Amenophis/ Amenhotep II, son of Thutmose III, XVIII Dynasty, copy, original now in the Paris Louvre. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
January 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
May you have a blessed evening and a good week.
January 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM