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@MartinDiCaro @Amb_Delattre Thanks. that really very nice of you to say.

How the Biden admin confronted war. A team at @politico including @vermontgmg @ErinBanco @laraseligman @nahaltoosi @alexbward compiled a remarkable oral history politico.com/news/magazine/… In Chartbook Newsletter

RT @AnthonyBarnett: A genuinely helpful, beautifully presented account of an utterly dreadful war and a warning against normalising it. htt…

RT @greygossling: Agreed, wonderful bit of writing analysing Washington's response to the knowledge the Russian invasion was coming from @a…

@shyam_kumar The piece by @EdwardGLuce was a last minute connection. Im just generally alarmed right now by what I see going on in Washington and

RT @Amb_Delattre: Thank you @adam_tooze I also warmly recommend everyone to reread George Kennan's fascinating 1946 long telegram https://t…

RT @pitsch: @adam_tooze Hans Delbrueck "Ermattungsstrategie" academia.edu/355715/German_…

RT @x_delcourt: Voir venir la guerre. Échouer à la prévenir,s’y préparer,y faire face. L’Ukraine, banc d’essai de l’inévitable? Seulement v…

"General Dynamics Electric Boat, which makes the Columbia and Virginia-class subs, employs just under 20,000 people. US group has 17 Virginia-class submarines in the backlog

"Rupert Murdoch predicted there would be “riots like never before” on the streets of the US if the 2020 election results were overturned in favour

"VW is stalling a planned battery plant in E Europe and prioritising a similar facility in N America after estimating it could receive €10bn in

"The original idea of containment, laid out in George Kennan’s 1947 Foreign Affairs essay, The Sources of Soviet Conduct, was more modest than the undeclared

"Some experts worry Ukraine may be expending high-quality troops and equipment to kill mere Russian prison recruits as “cannon fodder”." Wow the language around the

"Washington groupthink drove Biden’s overreaction (on balloons). The consensus is now so hawkish that it is liable to see any outreach to China as weakness."

The ECB was not seeking to “break the economy” with rate increases (Lagarde). Break not brake! But “inflation is a monster that we need to

Chartbook: Chartbook #199 How Putin's war dawned on Washington adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-19…

"Britain is planning to tackle chronic shortages in the labour market by opening its doors to more foreign workers, starting with looser rules for the

@jes1003 @postcarbonsteve pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@postcarbonsteve @jes1003 Hi Jason, been a long time. You are right I am assuming no immediate catastrophic climate breakdown. And even on that assumption the

RT @dieterjosef: @MWalkerKane @adam_tooze If more educated older people (over 50) would see what treasures YouTube has to offer and how the…

RT @triofrancos: Me: Imperialism is politically mediated, involves coalitions of foreign & domestic ruling classes; the idea that “natural…

RT @MWalkerKane: Robert Pippin on the course of Hegel's reputation in the Anglophone world. Also interesting bit on the status of American…

RT @dcwoodruff: Happy two-year anniversary to the video that best captures the feeling of being alive in the 21st century

RT @prem_thakker: New: A Florida school district with 48 schools hosting 50,000+ students just released a new list of books to be removed f…

RT @MWalkerKane: The teleological suspension of the ethical in Medea & Wuthering Heights, according to Schiller and Camus, respectively……

RT @MWalkerKane: The Mask of Sorrow, Magadan, Russia. #brutalism https://t.co/d3xYVxR8If

RT @LEBassett: New: A Florida teacher was fired for posting a video of his empty classroom bookshelves after local teachers received a dire…

Omg!!!!!! twitter.com/mwalkerkane/st…

“Western countries, led by the US, are implementing all-round containment, encirclement and suppression against us,” Xi told delegates of China’s top political advisory body on

“If the US doesn’t hit the brakes and continues to barrel down the wrong track, no amount of guardrails can prevent the carriage from derailing

"that, I think, is what makes this 20th anniversary so eerie. At least within the western world, the Iraq war has left little trace." Discuss

@ishaq_shamuel Was I? did I say that somewhere? Ive actually tended to be unpersuaded by that view and open-minded to the obvious alternatives.

Chartbook: Global obesity, the ECB's cartoonish anti-inflationism & Baghdad's clogged traffic adamtooze.substack.com/p/global-obesi…

RT @MathisWilliam: $13 billion of major new power lines are advancing in the US in an attempt to connect far-flung wind and solar resources…

RT @arpitrage: Paper by @annastansbury Dan Turner @edballs is interesting if you missed: • UK has spatial inequality from deindustrializat…

RT @70sBachchan: 59/ Challenge of electrification ht @adam_tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-ca… Electricity consumption to double over the next 30…