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Jim Townsend

@jteurope.bsky.social

Podcaster, think tanker, educator and consultant on all things Europe/NATO. Recovering Pentagon Druid!! @jteurope on that other platform.

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Gustav C Gressel@gresselgustav.bsky.social · 2y ago

Joined @hoanssolo.bsky.social, @cnas.bsky.social, @akendalltaylor.bsky.social, @nlokker.bsky.social, and @jteurope.bsky.social for a Brussels Sprouts discussion on the 🇻🇪🇺🇦 war and what 🇪🇺 is up to given the erratic nature of 🇺🇸 foreign policy. www.cnas.org/publications...

Can Ukraine and Europe Win Alone? with Gustav Gressel and Franz-Stefan Gady

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

cnas.org

Patrick Cronin@patrickmcronin.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.wsj.com/world/trump-... Is Trump's embrace of Putin a serious plan to split the Russia-China entente? Possible Answers: a "reverse Nixon," "the reverse of a 'reverse Nixon,'" a "reverse Kissinger"(@jteurope.bsky.social), or simply "a fantasy," as Admiral Paparo has said. @yarotrof.bsky.social

Washington’s Embrace of Putin Aims to Drive Wedge Between Moscow and Beijing

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

wsj.com

Jim Townsend@jteurope.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.nato.int/cps/en/natoh... NATO - News: NATO to enhance military presence in the Baltic Sea, 30-Dec.-2024. NATO is on the move; I hope this is just the beginning. We need a naval task group out there.

NATO to enhance military presence in the Baltic Sea

Allies met today (30 December 2024) at NATO Headquarters to consult on the security of critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, following damage to undersea cables connecting Estonia and Finland on ...

nato.int

Kori Schake 🎃@kschake.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good Lord — the number of things on which he had no particular expertise but which Rickover confidently asserted to advise the President! It can be no less true of military leaders than broligarchs to believe that being good at one thing makes you good at everything.

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Jim Townsend@jteurope.bsky.social · 2y ago

NATO needs to deploy its standing naval force to patrol the Baltic cable area and establish presence. Putin is testing both the US during the transition and NATO unity. We must respond. If nato cannot the Joint Expeditionary Force should.

LSW@ltrip.altgov.info · 2y ago

An #AltGov had joined the fray. As x2 federal employees have been doxed of late. There are many at risk. While we enjoyed complaining about other civil service, they are who have kept our government working in a stable fashion from admin to admin. They are people who do believe in serving democracy.

Matt Cortez, Esq.@mattcortezlaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am currently suing four governmental entities for causing harm to my clients. Governmental immunity makes it difficult, but I love doing it. I’m not sure what the next four years will bring, but if needed, I will be here.