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Split squadron from Lakenheath with tanker support (can be Euro) + 10th SF advisors to train Ukrainians alongside European brigades is the obvious solution for a US presence in Ukraine … there are solutions … reappropriate EU SAMP-T/Patrior deployed in country for air defense (use the TR model).

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In touching off another round of Mercator debate, Trump has also rendered the whole subject moot. Whether or not the Mercator projection implicitly fosters imperialist attitudes doesn’t really matter when the president is explicitly fostering them himself. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Europe during the Cold War was viewed as an amplifier of American power. This admin -- and really all GOP admins since W Bush -- do not view Europe that way. The culmination of this is a new mantra where EU members have to "burden share"to prove they once again can enhance US security.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

FPRI Insights is now on Substack!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Wow

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Grease the poles

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

My latest on Trump’s blast from the past and making what was once okd, new again — space based missile defense :: open.substack.com/pub/behindth...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Check out FPRI Insights, now on Substack!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Beat Boston… let’s go

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The economics of Starship and SpaceX does at least make me question how one could approach a space based missile defense in ways that differ from all previous cost assumptions.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

US is poised -- with the SDI 2.0 EO -- to bring warheads now in storage out for upload + Russia withdrawing from New Start (or it simply expiring). The arms control era is over.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Happening Wednesday, Jan. 29 - NATO’s Future: The Philadelphia Perspective with Rep. Brendan Boyle

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

And learned that one way to counter a torpedo is to turn into it, thereby decreasing the range to ensure it doesn’t have time to arm itself

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

CAATSA was originally conceived as a mechanism to block Trump from unilaterally lifting sanctions put in place to punish Russia for intervening to help his 1st prez campaign in 2016. Congress uses the same tool again to block Trump in 2025.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Spot on. Build two jets

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

The Republic of Turkey and Mar a Lago were founded at approximately the same time. No issue that the US and Turkey will grapple (Kurds in Syria) with under Trump is actually older than the club the US president owns and lives in

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Just A+ level content

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

This has been a standard Turkish TP for 5 or so years (maybe a bit less cause dates are fuzzy). What’s different this time is: 1) SDF is very brittle and could collapse; 2) a messy Turkish invasion will make the US position untenable; 3) Trump track record will embolden Ankara

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

This was the pre-2014 policy

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Why Manbij? What is Turkey's obsessions w/ the strategically dubious city? & why, amidst the collapse of Bashar, did Ankara turn its guns on the SDF enclave most exposed to SNA attack? And does it forebode broader Turkish military action east of the river. I have the history (p. 103-127) in my book

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment