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submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I hate soviet gerontocracy comparisons because american gerontocracy is so much more powerful and old....Brezhnev dead at 75. Andropov at 69, Chernenko at 73. pathetic. little babies all of them

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

when you make important advances in the english language and people are simply being ungrateful

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

@abenewman.bsky.social and I have incoming on this soonish

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

100% comprehensible statement. It’s a fallen world.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

remember when bigballz used chatgpt to tariff the penguins....innocent days

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Might I suggest that the fact that folks are continually surprised when their friends or family get detained by ICE despite this pretty clearly being administration policy is indicative of both a failure to curate information diets, but also a media failure?

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

they use "western heritage" six times here, zombie huntington is so back

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Lots of talk about how social democracy is in decline, but the collapse of mainstream centre-right parties is just as big a story, and plausibly the main source of the rise of the far right.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

one thing about filling the elite ranks of society with eogimaniacs who cheated their way to the top is that, even if they recognize the negative sum implications of living in a corrupt kleptocracy, they all erroneously assume they will be far above average at navigating it and benefit anyway

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Great work here from @seva.bsky.social in Post-Soviet Affairs

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

doubt it very much mr long tables is not leaving his bunker for live fire

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

what happened to the gentle man who bombed his way to the presidency in 1999

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

spoken like a man who just received reassurance from the supreme court that he cannot be fired

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

how do you govern a volunteer hacking army? new article w/ Anna Lysenko. We look at the rise of Ukraine’s IT army and what it means for the evolution of cyber conflict www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 4 days ago • 373 comments

All potential great powers are insistent on suicide for some reason US: (waves hands) Russia: on year 3 of losing a conventional war to Ukraine China: run by a deflation stan EU: can't stop trading with a country that wants to kill them India: national defense policy run by Republic TV

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

submitted 93 days ago • 60 comments

Casey Newton, in his latest newsletter: “Every time I feel like progress in artificial intelligence is beginning to slow, a week like this one hits — and suddenly, it's all I can do to keep up.” Me, a stratcomm professor: YES EXACTLY THAT’S A COMMS CAMPAIGN. www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

“scholars of state formation, especially on the international law side, underestimate how much the incentives for state creation reflect the preferences of great powers.” @seva.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I thought we’d have 200 UN members by now (new post) hegemon.substack.com/p/where-are-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

submitted 9 days ago • 27 comments

Really insightful piece on the potential ramifications of a Trumpian foreign policy. 'For independence movements, the new rules of secession mean a more volatile and uncertain future.'

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Reminds me of the calculation I saw that only seven people, in America, are currently full-time book reviewers for non-NYT newspapers.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

what does trump's foreign policy mean for separatists and secession movements around the world? our new piece with @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social argues breakaway regions could find new opportunities but also a lot more risks www.foreignaffairs.com/world/new-pr...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

submitted 12 days ago • 767 comments

Odd thing about Mearsheimer’s Putin apologetics is his IR theory does a good job explaining the war. Russia would always try to regain what USSR lost, NATO smartly grabbed relative power when it could, and an inevitable (tragic) clash happened. But that doesn’t scold US liberals and excuse Putin.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Mearsheimer has now taken the stance that states go to war because it’s the central feature of political life — except Russia, which goes to war because of american liberals.

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

I’m not saying this to be fighty, but I would always have put money on librarians being braver under duress than elite law firms and CEOs. The massively unequal distribution of power between librarians, elite law firms, and CEOs tells us a lot about the country, though.

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

someone should do an update called Why we will Soon Miss the Unipolar moment

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

An attempt to cast consumers as feminized and hence contemptable …. not like those manly producers.

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments