ADAM TOOZE

Some $15bn in hot money has been pulled out of Egypt since the end of January as a result of the war ft.com/content/e033ce… https://t.co/7sQgPXxpKR

RT @RobinBrooksIIF: Are sanctions working fast enough? Number of oil tankers at Russian ports is down from past years (lhs). But value of o…

If corporate debt markets were pricing in a serious risk of recession you would expect more junk spread than this: @rbrtrmstrng @EthanYWu Unhedged essential reading. ft.com/content/2c1bef… https://t.co/lkAj847cgH

RT @pg: Chartbook #104: From Mostar to Mariupol – Urbicide and MOUT :: With well-supplied and determined defense, Russia’s entire invasion…

Europe should put together a RRF 2.0 to focus on energy that is green and secure, that is, on projects that can rapidly reduce the need for imported fossil fuels from Russia. @COdendahl @JohnSpringford cer.eu/insights/eu-mu… https://t.co/Hu6XnPRTW9

For European energy sovereignty, new LNG terminals etc may be necessary as flexible back up. BUT huge strides could be made by using less fossil fuels through efficiency and determined push in renewables. Essential this from @AgoraEW @MatthiasBuck4 static.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/Proj… https://t.co/GPgBt2WRoS

RePowerEU. Action on energy efficiency and on renewables should be key to Europe’s push for energy sovereignty, as @MatthiasBuck4 @AgoraEW argue in this important report. static.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/Proj… https://t.co/0p336bse4A

RT @JacobiAljoscha: @adam_tooze It's one of the closer recent polls, but roughly what pollsters have been saying about the 2nd round for qu…

"You have only hours left." Highly revealing this. In fairness Lindner only said out loud and to @MelnykAndrij face what many surely believed and what was, indeed, the basis of Western policy towards Ukraine-Russia conflict. twitter.com/tomescritt/sta…

RT @paroles_la: Une légende dans le Jura. Qui a fait passer 120 personnes en zone libre rien que la nuit de Noël 1940. Pris en mars,il se t…

wow. If I am reading this correctly, a Macron v. Le Pen run off in 2nd round of French presidential is 53..5 v. 46.5. FAR closer than I would have imagined. I have I got this right? twitter.com/IfopOpinion/st…

@MazMHussain @IranWonk Whats amazing is that American leaders simply expect rest of world to accept this fact rather than investing every effort in actually creating a bipartisan platform for US policy.

RT @MazMHussain: It is a little crazy to hear a U.S. diplomat concede that it’s political system is incapable of making long-term diplomati…

Urbicide: In the 1990s the wars in Yugoslavia & Chechnya gave urgency to the idea of URBICIDE – the deliberate attack on the frabric of urban life. Charbook #104 revists a timely concept. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/J79eUpjWOg

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Artillery, bombs & rockets impacting high-rise buildings are today a staple of war’s visual repertoire. But when was the first high-rise war? Chartbook #104 on urbicide and urban war proposes Beirut 1982. Or should it have been the 1970s? adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/AJb3sWRj0u

Taken together, the 3 facets of modern urbanization: Large scale industrial infrastrucure, High-Rise, Sprawling informal settlement, have shaped modern urban warfare. Chartbook #104 on the horrible urgency of Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/7yfSZMpklR

RT @YGorodnichenko: The head of #Russia central bank described supertight #monetarypolicy but she didn't say why she has to kill the #econo…

RT @SarahTaber_bww: More wheat stats. My personal favorite Misleading Wheat Stat is "Ukraine/Russia grow 25% of world wheat exports." Why…

@MarioHolzner It’s also that Mostar spawned idea of urbicide.

Urbicide: In the 1990s the wars in Yugoslavia & Chechnya gave urgency to the idea of URBICIDE – the deliberate attack on the frabric of urban life. Charbook #104 revists a timely concept. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/ZwjUpvqSBg

War is where the people are: In 1900 10% of the world’s population was urban, amounting to 180m people. Today the share is 50% -> 4 bn people. The structural condition of modern urban warfare. Charbook #104 just dropped. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/18AcPPmnJV

Artillery, bombs & rockets impacting high-rise buildings are today a staple of war’s visual repertoire. But when was the first high-rise war? Chartbook #104 on urbicide and urban war proposes Beirut 1982. Or should it have been the 1970s? adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/Jr88tBnjhS

Taken together, the 3 facets of modern urbanization: Large scale industrial infrastrucure, High-Rise, Sprawling informal settlement, have shaped modern urban warfare. Chartbook #104 on the horrible urgency of Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/XzybnunE3y

RT @OonaghKelleher: @rclarkie @Halfords_uk could you reach out and help this amazing young lad get the bike of his dreams to silence the bu…

RT @abmakulec: @rclarkie Well just look at that. My dad has been doing woodworking since he was little and now has projects like building h…

RT @bressonmoment: @rclarkie My 12 yo boy is obsessed with French revolution, Robespierre etc.. so spends his lunch times reading.Kids mock…

RT @rjlinney: @rclarkie Well this seems to have backfired spectacularly for the haters 😀 https://t.co/DVnp8ZTfbX

RT @rclarkie: Lovely twitter people – I don't know how many of you are also #instagram users but I'm looking for a wee favour. I've a 12yr…

RT @rclarkie: He's created himself an instagram page to proudly show what he can do. Only the little shits at his school have found out he'…

RT @rclarkie: So I was wondering if any of you fancied giving him a boost and following him on instagram at clarkie_woodwork it would make…

RT @KenCaldeira: The world produces 10 to 15 kg of concrete per person per day. Every person on the planet. Every day. https://t.co/Kc15k…

RT @hering_david: Today I learned that Jean-Paul Sartre had a cat called Nothing https://t.co/O6b9Qyy3e6

RT @ntrickett16: Got my Ghost back up, will hopefully return to posting something like once a week depending on work. Just ported over what…

War is where the people are: In 1900 10% of the world’s population was urban, amounting to 180m people. Today the share is 50% -> 4 bn people. The structural condition of modern urban warfare. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-10… https://t.co/1YG1zKwotq

RT @whsieh: @adam_tooze This was a fascinating piece. My one comment is that recent US urban experience has actually involved using local n…