robdover.bsky.social
Academic researcher in intelligence and security, currently Dean of Faculty, but posting in a personal capacity. Poor standard runner. Excitable cricketer. Prone to crunchy deductions....
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I've missed rebellions news.. now in my happy place, temporarily.
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The hair is a USP. The resigning by text... a Prince's way out? Machiavelli, unlikely to be proud or approving.
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"Don'tpublish"
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The NYT reports that Iran gave the US advanced warning of today's attack. Iran also reportedly launched the same quantity of missiles as the US used against Iran on the weekend.
This confirms Iran has calibrated this as performative and symbolic, although that doesn't guarantee no US response.
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Too many 6s needing to be rolled to stop contagion.
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Agreed
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(@erik-jones.bsky.social) Thanks for this Gary. We had a little pile of these at Bristol! I must still have mine somewhere. Last time I saw him, Richard was very nearly, exactly the same!
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For sure. Sadly.
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Both are answered with a Ducati 905.
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I accept your correction! Normatively held, more in the breach than in honour, and often with a good dose of hypocrisy, in a certain fraction of the globe?
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That would still suggest it was acting as a braking force, and also provides more legitimacy to actions taken against those breaching?
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The final paragraph of the excerpt is spot on.
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😆
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The part of their interview that was most disappointing was the evidence free assertion that policy can only flow when the negative consequences are felt. That just isn't how policy works.. or the tail would always wag the dog.
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I'd pay money to see them being interviewed by Tormey....
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They lack any empathy. And they haven't read the sort of history we read as undergrads.
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There's a high risk of that. But it's coming / is here. I'd like to see more debate on governance, ethics and appropriateness though.. because choices should be consciously made.
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Nothing! So long as no-one deviates from the script...
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I think that's a very astute 'read'.
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blimey!
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I'd take that. Works just as well for academics...