Can't wait for them to discover that Israelis also watch TV, drink coffee, eat breakfast, and have sex

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Amateurs talk Mearsheimer. Ukrainians talk Wildberries.

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · yesterday

1/5 It is long past time for media outlets and serious analysts to stop platforming John Mearsheimer. Few public intellectuals have been as systematically and repeatedly wrong about Russia and Ukraine as he has

My non-fiction debut "We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West" is out today. It's the result of years of research, travel to a dozen countries, and countless conversations. Thank you @wwnorton.com and everyone who supported me along the way. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Why, after Kuwait and Bahrain it looks like bombing Iranians has become a collective pastime

Iran says Ukrainian attack on vessel in Caspian Sea killed sailor, condemns ‘act of aggression’

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After almost 15 years of teaching at DC policy and international affairs schools I cannot think of a more authentic blob-monster than a freshman with strong views on Metternich

That is, to say the least, a very fishy behavior

Christian Odendahl@codendahl.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fish. 🐟 France, Portugal and Germany managed to bloc EU sanctions on Russian fresh fish imports. Apparently Surimi is an indispensable French classic. Germans can only eat fish fingers made from Russian fish. And Portugal's national dish, dried cod, is now Made in Russia.

In other news, Gerasimov is still going to be at his job even after we all die

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2w ago

⚡️Breaking: Zelensky dismisses Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi amid widespread protests. President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 21 dismissed the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.

Loomer discovers that Ukraine is actually not a country full of Nazi symphatizers. Or at least wasn't till she arrived. Loomer is sad. Loomer is sorry.

Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Well, at least one global nightmare is over

I have a dream: a multipolar world where Cabo Verde is one of the poles

Obviously an election stunt that goes nowhere and they do it precisely because they know it goes nowhere but unlocking the "most deranged B-movie fascist villain" level is in itself an achievement even for these fascists

Israel changes crocodiles legal status in push for Ben-Gvir's 'crocodile prison' | The Jerusalem Post

The environmental protection minister changed the crocodile’s legal status to facilitate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s proposed “crocodile prison.”

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The Year of the Fire Horseshoe is wild, y'all

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Today's special at the Horseshoe Cafe.

AN ACADEMIC JOB! We are hiring for the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professorship at the Johns Hopkins SAIS campus in Bologna. We are especially interested in those working on international affairs and technology but open to other topics as well. The main downside is having me across the hall.

When this is all over, Zelensky will be remembered very differently in Ukraine and in the US/EU/Canada etc. And he will fully deserve both of those perspectives

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 3w ago

⚡️ Thousands rally in Kyiv, other cities against Defense Minister Fedorov's dismissal, demand reappointment. "Reappoint!" protesters chanted outside the President's Office in central Kyiv on July 16, waving Ukrainian flags and signs criticizing the decision.

So this is how they are going to fund the Gaza Board of Peace, and pay for the reconstruction, it all makes sense now

George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w ago

The President just announced a 20% toll on all cargo shipped through Hormuz, payable...to the US>

There is an entire academic discipline that has zero issues speaking ill of the dead. It's named history

My kind of crazy

Too Many Books?

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Settler colonials won, Egypt lost and Israel has absolutely nothing to do with it. Confusing, things are.

A victory parade in Moscow had fewer red flags than this guy and yet somehow everyone is so shocked.

My guess is that Trump just told Infantino that FIFA does not have the cards.

Ben Jacobs@jacobsben.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card. FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

Whatever one thinks of OUN, UPA, Bandera etc. (and my thoughts on these are not a secret), starting a very public beef with Ukraine at this moment was probably not the smartest decision for Poland.

Anna Grzymala-Busse@annagbusse.bsky.social · last mo.

Some things to note about Putin's potential plans in Poland: a) there have been several attacks on infrastructure/ incursions, and both Poland and NATO kept their cool b) if Putin is smart, he'll stick with a plausibly deniable bigger attack on infrastructure: that's a gray area for NATO

From the minutes of the Chief of Staff Conference, HQ British Troops in Palestine, 13 April 1948, in the middle of the civil war and a month before withdrawal. Glad to know that the Brits focused on what really mattered. And astonished that there was anything in 1948 Palestine that was yet unclaimed

Archival adventures: Today I tried, really did, to smell a scented geranium from Betlehem that Field Marshall Allenby preserved in 1917, just after capturing Jerusalem. Haven't sensed a thing. What's wrong with me?

Real picture of me, trying to explain my students and naive Westerners the intricacies of Central and Eastern European memory wars

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 2mo ago

❗️Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle after Kyiv named a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA. Ukrainian officials, including Andrii Sybiha, Budanov and Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar, said they would return Polish honors. #Poland

The perennial question "What air defense doing?" now has a definitive answer

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Moscow air defense starting it's own fires by shooting down Ukrainian drones. The building hit by the downed drone in the first video is visibly on fire in the second video, as are numerous structures in the area.

But will Trump finally get the Nobel Peace Prize for the Iran deal? That's the key question we all should be asking

And now, in the most unbiased way possible, governments will decide if the just suspended ICC prosecutor who handled Putin and Netanyahu indictments will be out because of sexual misconduct. Just taking notes for the next time I am asked about why I am cynical about this whole accountability thing

Decision of the Bureau concerning the outcome of disciplinary proceedings involving the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

At its meeting on 8 June 2026, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, by qualified majority: made a decision on the disciplinary proceedi...

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: Trump: Israel and Iran must immediately stop “shooting.”

I've read too much on the 1912-13 Balkan Wars recently, so my prediction: Israel bombs Iran, Iran bombs everyone else, Trump, Iran and everyone else bomb Israel in retaliation, then Iran once again bombs everyone else, but this time together with Israel. Everyone else bomb the US, Jordan partitioned

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis)@avishaybsg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Netanyahu still hasn’t spoken to the Israeli public or even released a statement (unsurprisingly). IDF spokesperson was sent to say Israel won’t let Iran establish the equation it attacks Israel in response to action in Lebanon. I’m just not sure what Israel will do now that Trump has spoken.

Concept of a ceasefire

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The fire isn’t ceasing.