@DEHEdgerton @shashj And you know that the further we go down this line the deeper we go int the spirals of "the loop” 🙂
@shashj @PayneConGeo @kpd_musing That is very clarifying actually. So we have Indo-Pacific Involvement v. Focus v. Deployment v. China-related defensive? activity within NATO. We need
The safe haven of the American super-rich in case the US collapses is social democratic New Zealand. @KuperSimon on elite time horizons. ft.com/content/73f6ba… https://t.co/TbhmzIPLOG
@shashj @PayneConGeo @kpd_musing Ahhh …. Involvement v. Focus (v. Deployment?)… re involvement they were after all pushing NATO to extend its remit only just the
@PayneConGeo @kpd_musing @shashj @jamescrabtree @Dimi @LawDavF Another element of this is the slightly ramshackle spectacle of the carrier group, the broken down destroyers, F35s etc
@PayneConGeo @kpd_musing @shashj @jamescrabtree @Dimi @LawDavF In one of those twitter dog fight moments I am all spun around, but think at this point I
"Western businesses must accept ultimate primacy of politics in a democracy.” @fromTGA @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Same day @FT op ed: China’s crackdown on biz bad because
@shashj I did read transcript, thanks to @jamescrabtree I agree that Austin did not say what you dont want him to have said. But, if
China’s unprecedented crackdown on its technology industry has turned Tencent Holdings Ltd. from a market darling into the world’s biggest stock loser this month. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In the Loop: FT report by @Dimi suggesting that US Sec of Def Austin said UK would be better off focusing on Atlantic has triggered
@kpd_musing Totally confirms mine I’m unashamed to say. Sorry the story is wrong frankly. 🙁
@LawDavF @PeterRNeumann Hi Lawrence do you happen to have links to actual remarks? I was just following the FT’s spin on it and, I must
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Huge plurality of German voters wants none of Baerbock, Scholz and Laschet, though, NB, Baerbock now leads the race! twitter.com/Wahlen_DE/stat…
RT @JRCookson: This is the best thing I’ve watched in a long time, and that includes the first season of Ted Lasso I watched last
The 1990s “slowly chipped away at the division between private and public,” Monica Lewinsky “Over and over again I have found that the only thing
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Chartbook Top Links #5 will be up tomorrow. We’ve done Greening the Fed, Thatcher’s inflation pantry & the Imperial Japanese Navy. Check out #1, #2,
A fateful anniversary: 2021 is the 150th anniversary of the first German unification under Prussian leadership in 1871.
For the occasion I did a talk for the Columbia alumni association – the circumstances were rather weird. I spoke to the group at well past midnight, from a hotel room in London.
Every talk like this is an artifice. This one came together well. Sometimes strange surroundings produce an effect of clarity.
As if summoned by the G30 this morning! twitter.com/djimenjg/statu…
RT @jraimo: Le drapeau soviétique sur le Reichstag d’Evgueni Khaldeï : la photo comme arme politique (avec @MEudesAFP sur @franceculture ;…
RT @holdengraber: ♟MARCEL DUCHAMP Born on this day, in 1887 “I am still a victim of chess.” It has all the beauty of art —
RT @EddieDu5: #Turkey is building a wall along the #Iran border in the eastern province of Van as the number of #Afghan migrants entering t…
Bismarck or Moltke? Hilarious 1882 genre painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist, pairs well with the inaugural Chartbook Video on German unification. Sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-vi…
RT @KetanJ0: Norway's Troll gas field will be producing in 2051 – one of the biggest in Europe. That's a clear instance of betting on
The orchestration of diplomacy, politics, military power is what makes German unification in 1871 so remarkable: a stunning manipulation of historical forces. Check out this
@BergAslak Yes, of course. It is truly a no win situation.
"Myanmar-based rights groups have submitted a complaint to the OECD against Telenor after the Norwegian state-owned telecoms company sold its business in the conflict-torn south-east
"The Fed does not target the total supply of dollars because you can’t aim at something you can’t see. Instead, like most central banks, it
"They do not allocate credit, the central bankers will say — that’s for markets to decide. But the Fed is already allocating credit, whether it
We need to be paying more attention to Tunisia! One bright spot is that it does not have a hegemonic army tha is a tool
$309bn in debt. Regulators are after it. So are its banks. "Once richest man in China” boss struggling to preserve his fortune. "Inclement" mood in
"Flying the flag for global Britain” involves a British carrier with more US warplanes than British ones. US and Dutch naval add-ons to make up
RT @NatBullard: "You cannot draw in the first returning tourists and museum-goers with the delights of a 1946 Pininfarina Cisitalia (oh, th…
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