Professor @KingsRussia. Political sociologist. Progressive. Opinions my own. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
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For the avoidance of doubt: The opinions and analysis I express on this platform are my own and do not reflect the positions of any particular institution.
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I’ve got just one question; When did Bridge Colby become a “master strategist”?
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Reports by the US gov’t on the actions of the US gov’t do not constitute “intelligence” by any definition. They are simply reports.
And reports that systematically mislead and misrepresent — without providing genuine transparency — are generally known as propaganda.
Jun 12
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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Now in English: Analysis, with @gbrunc, of how Russian citizens adapt to the war, distance themselves from its most destructive consequences, and reproduce the conditions that enable it to continue. For @ReRussiaorg_eng.
re-russia.net/en/expertise/0…
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Для читающих по-русски, с @gbrunc для @ReRussiaorg о психологии коллективного избегания в России.
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Jun 8
As much as Russia's elites are at odds over the future, they increasingly appear to agree about the present is both unsustainable and undesirable. And that creates a new kind of problem for a Putin wedded to futurelessness.
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Jun 8
This.
This is the most maddening thing about the debate in negotiations with Russia: the knee-jerk insistence that negot’s only exist to get Russia to stop fighting.
For Kyiv, the point is security. Talks that are structurally precluded from leading to security are pointless.
No matter what one thinks about these terms, they cannot not understand that the "multinational force" is a poison pill that makes the whole thing unworkable. That's the idea, I guess.
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Fogh Rasmussen makes a number of points with which I take issue, but the one that really sticks in my craw is this, because it misrepresents the problem.
It’s not that America won’t ride to Europe’s rescue: it’s that American policy is now antithetical to European security.
Jun 7
Talk of an envoy for negotiations is premature, writes Anders Fogh Rasmussen economist.com/by-invitation/…
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I’m not saying America’s the enemy. It’s not — not in any real sense — and it would be sophomoric to say it is. But this administration clearly sees European interests as detrimental to its own.
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Treating the American posture as through it were merely unfortunate and unhelpful — rather than fundamentally and purposively disruptive — allows European policymakers to continue living in an illusory world, and to avoid building necessary capacities, including diplomatic ones.
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I’ve had plenty of occasion to be ashamed of my government.
Never have I been so mortified as I am by this administration.
I suspect that’s the point. This kind of behavior sends a clear message to Americans like me: this isn’t your country anymore.
We don’t have to agree.
Jun 6
Hegseth uses his D-Day anniversary speech in Franch to take veiled shots at NATO and European immigration policies
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A long conversation with Sky News on Putin, Zelenskyy, shifting political sands and the prospects for ceasefire talks.
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And no, I'm not "Head of Russian Politics" at King's -- or anywhere else, for that matter. 🤦♂️
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Thoughts for the BBC on Zelensky, Putin and the shifting moods in Ukraine and Russia.
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Hey @StateDept — blink twice if you need help.
Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.
The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.
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Jun 3
AI — with its ability to generate prose and code and plow through information at pace and scale — is a problem for education if what we’re teaching is how to answer questions.
But the higher order skill is how to *ask* a question. AI doesn’t replace that.
The most important and effective uses of AI have little to do with writing.
I could put graduate students on AI-driven projects with me tomorrow. The university has no mechanism to let me. What U of C does solves that problem.
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