Top drawer stuff from Patrick Porter - is this world-weary realist moving leftward? thecritic.co.uk/issues/decembe…

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I can’t think of a single big diplomatic accomplishment under the Antony Blinken era. I’m not being sarcastic either.

Last week it was Greenland. Two days ago it was Canada. Today it’s Gaza. Next week we will be talking about something completely different. Please stop reacting hysterically to Trump’s absurd statements and focus on the deep problems that led him to power. Those haven’t changed.

1. Trump's goal of taking over Gaza (after Palestinians have been ethnically cleansed) is evil and deranged. It's also not going to happen, along with many other similarly crackpot, criminal goals: annexing Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal etc. These absurd goals are evidence of

Whoever is writing a history of the decline and fall of the Democratic party: please use a still from this video as the cover

The irony is that Reagan's greatest contribution to ending the cold war was bucking the foreign policy establishment and embracing Gorbachev in 1985, when hawks in both parties thought he was Breshnev in a better suit

🚨New open access paper of mine on the connections between climate change and the politics of nuclear arms and disarmament. Thanks to European Research Council (ERC) and Belfer Center MacArthur Foundation "Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence" for the support. academic.oup.com/isr/article/27…

got a new article out on Waltz, Mearsheimer and the normative problem of nuclear war: doi.org/10.1177/004711…

As prescient as it gets. Cited here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An article on nonproliferation and unipolarity written by Kjølv Egeland, Jan Ruzicka and me is now available for read only at the European Journal of International Security. It shows how unipolarity enabled and incentivised the US to prioritise nonproliferation in the 1990s. Relevant! eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

No. Xi is watching the US bleed resources and credibility while he builds relationships with countries who are understandably exploring alternatives to a global order dominated by a reckless superpower that takes advice from cranks like this.

A turning point in the war: Several of Israel's ports and airports under complete or partial blockade. All due to hits by Iranian missiles. Largest refinery down. Will Israel respond by escalating and hitting Iranian energy infrastructure? Will Israel's allies allow it to do so?

If Iran got the bomb, the United States, a nuclear-armed country, would remain fundamentally secure. Israel, a nuclear-armed country, would remain fundamentally secure. Iran would go nuclear to ensure the survival of its regime. Firing nuclear weapons at Israel would assure

Iran has *not* enriched uranium to the levels used for nuclear weapons. Attempting to achieve regime change through a bombing campaign is a good way to convince them to do it though.

6 bunker-busters probably did penetrate Fordo's deep bunkers. Problem is that much nuclear material likely removed before strikes. This coukd have happened days ago and could be anywhere in Iran, 4 x size of Iraq.

BIG: High-ranking Iranian source tells Amwaj.media that Trump team gave advance notice of bombings of nuclear sites and insisted they're intended as "one-off". Signs of Trump seeking repeat of Jan 2020 (Soleimani killing=>symbolic Iranian retaliation). amwaj.media/en/media-monit…

A scenario for Iran’s response: 🔹Trump says Iran’s Fordow facility is gone. Other nuclear sites have been hit. Therefore, he effectively claims his objective, i.e., stopping Iran from getting nukes, is achieved. 🔹But here's the twist: Iran may NOT strike back at the U.S. at

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

This is utterly shameless stuff. You champion the suffragettes as heroes who did far more extreme acts than anything Palestine Action even contemplated: they planted bombs! they burned down private homes! they smashed up art galleries! Yet you voted to proscribe a movement