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rob.myall.dev
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Exciting to watch Elon Musk pivot so elegantly from making his cars toxic to the demographic most likely to consider one, to making his Starlink a national security risk for all the governments who might have wanted it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 57 comments

He has just made it very likely that no military organisation will allow themselves to be placed in such a situation again. Why would Starlink ever be seen as an assured, trusted service?

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

Also means every US ally now knows that even its private sector contracts with US is a tool the admin can and will look to weaponize against them, so they will all be looking hard to derisk from US much more broadly than would otherwise have been the case

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

"20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years"

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Jack Watling and I take a look at what the requirements might look like for a European force in Ukraine. We find that this not an insurmountable task, but will require proper resourcing and difficult political choices. @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

A lot of Americans, even liberal ones, underestimate how much anger is building up towards Washington among those British and German social groups who were once the most fervent advocates for the alliance with the United States

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

Probably going to mute / block the provisional wing of the EU Brexit commentariat. Twenty replies saying "you left, don't dare return to Brussels except to beg for forgiveness" get rather tedious. As well as displaying flat earth qualities of their UK Brexit ultra friends. Many others already did.

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

"The Royal Navy’s £6bn carriers have been ridiculed by Russia and others as symbols of British decline and delusion, obsolete in the age of drones and hypersonic missiles" Oh well if Russia thinks they're shit it must be true. When Russia can barely maintain their aging coal-rolling carrier.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

No cherry picking! But also give us your fish.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Except the whole thing is characterised by geostrategic naivety. The EU has a choice as to whether its starting point is 'we must preserve our political red lines' or 'we need to make Europe as secure as possible'

submitted 188 days ago • 3 comments

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

submitted 429 days ago • 61 comments

Just heard an analyst in London say Russia preparing to be able to attack a #NATO state by 2026. This isn’t just rhetoric. #Europe (west of Poland) must FINALLY awaken to the threat and resource for deterrence.

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

I made a Zuuli Xmas Game! play.unfringed.co/ZuuliXmas/ How many points can you get decorating the tree with Zuuli themed baubles? Just like Zuuli it's trickier than it looks ;)

submitted 457 days ago • 0 comments

I've never understood why having your second house be called a Senate is the correct and progressive view given its ancient lineage. If we ever reform the House of Lords I sincerely hope that we keep the name even if it's fully democratically elected.

submitted 458 days ago • 0 comments

If the UK really wants to show it can still play a crucial role in geopolitical flashpoints, then a naval visit to Georgetown by a Type 45 alongside French, Brazilian and Dutch frigates would be a pretty useful signal right now

submitted 459 days ago • 2 comments

Column. On the persistence of remain/leave identities and their resonance well beyond Brexit and the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 459 days ago • 6 comments

He’s still not beating these allegations

submitted 462 days ago • 3 comments