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andrewkerr9000.bsky.social
Social liberal, software engineer. #UBI #LVT. May also post about defence and armed conflict. He/him.
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Here's an alarming view of the state of British Army equipment. I have this worrying notion that the reason we didn't send any Warrior IFVs to Ukraine is that we don't have any functional Warriors. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Intel Source, on the Trump firing of JAG chiefs/JCOS: "You've been looking for the coup? Here's the coup." The road to deploy US troops on American soil is now a highway. Gnight everybody. Hug your kids tight

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

I appreciate this from Denyer, but has any Green leader acknowledged that stopping and deterring Russian aggression requires hard power? That the state needs to buy arms and expand production capacity, both to supply Ukraine, and to improve our own defences?

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

It's unreal that the Conservatives think culture war is the threat, not the actual war against Russia all of Europe (w/o USA) will be in if Trump can force Ukraine to capitulate. A traditional Tory would be campaigning on rebuilding the Army and military industrial capacity.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Can confirm this is happening. Free speech absolutism strikes again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Have googled, this is a real post from Yarvin's substack, with alt text: Give Russia free reign in Europe, up to the Channel, to destroy liberalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Any media with algorithmic recommendation/promotion is editorialising. They're not merely neutral publishing platforms or "town squares". They are responsible for what they promote. So let's see those algorithms. Let's regulate them like we regulate legacy media. If they don't like it, ban 'em.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Europe’s emergency is Keir Starmer’s salvation: If peacekeeping Ukraine requires British re-armament, it could also break through the political consensus binding Labour. 🖊️ @philtinline.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is all a bit unreal, as there is basically zero chance that Putin and Trump will negotiate any "peace" deal better than Ukrainian capitulation.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Trump could have pushed for an end to the war in Ukraine without becoming actively hostile to Ukraine. Instead, he has imbibed Putin’s lies. Have written about the emergence of a new US/Russia axis, where it comes from and the staggering implications for Europe. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

From @ozkaterji.bsky.social on another platform: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18922...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is an exceptional analysis piece by @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the implications of the Trump Administration's stance towards Europe for Europe I want to say it's highly provocative, but I fear it's the basecase. A rupture and realignment, unfolding before us www.ft.com/content/11f1...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Trump demanded European NATO spend 5% of GDP on defence. US spends 3.5%, and it would appear plans to cut that to 2.3% over 5 years.

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