Tim Benbow
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Tim Benbow
@timbenbow.bsky.social
Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London
My research focusses on UK naval strategy and naval history in the Second World War and Cold War.
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If there is a negotiated deal here somewhere - and I don't think there is - it almost certainly would take the form of land-for-security: Ukraine gets an army and EU membership in exchange for giving up the Donbass to Russia.

But 'land for fuck you, that's what' is not a deal and has never been.
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Basically, just because battleships weren't fighting doesn't mean they weren't achieving the purpose of building them. And sure, eventually they came up against a new technology that made them obsolete - but so did the spear.
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Good response to a dumb take (and your line applies just as well to the Second World War).
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Looks like the tower at Blackpool, right?
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I reflect on this grimly: if we are lucky, RFK Jr. will be the cabinet secretary that kills the most Americans by his malice, whereas if we are unlucky, it will be Hegseth who does it by his incompetence.
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM