Earlier this morning the House overwhelmingly voted to continue providing military support to Taiwan by a 421-6 vote.

“Trump’s foreign policy team dismisses soft power as a tool for managing a global order that it no longer intends to lead. U.S. policies today are aimed not at reassuring American allies but at energizing them.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

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The fact that the office of the director of national intelligence is putting out documents with titles like this is in itself a sign of a crisis within the American intelligence community.

Respectfully, this misses the point. What Trump is doing by hollowing out agencies & having subject matter expertise leave & replaced by kooks/conspiracy theorists will set the nation back decades (not to mention the trillions in tax cuts and RW takeover of the federal courts)

For more than 25 years, CIA operated a secret airline that met the vast majority of the Agency's requirements for covert logistical, tactical, and denied-area operations across Asia. Read about Air America here: cia.gov/stories/story/…

The White House has become nothing more than a second-rate cheer leader. There was a time, and not so long ago, that it acted and spoke with gravitas and decorum.

BREAKING: Lawrence O'Donnell, a media legend, after seeing the media coverage of Donald Trump's handling of the Epstein files, finally had enough: "We are watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst WH press corps in history every day." This is a must-watch: 🔥

This administration is a parody, right?

Again, yet more sycophancy from a federal government agency.

“Civilian faculty in military educational institutions play a crucial role: Unlike their military colleagues, they can devote a lifetime to mastery of their specialties, including teaching.” Outstanding piece from Eliot A Cohen

Yet another subject tells the Emperor how lovely his clothes are.

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I’ve been away from this platform for a little while, so in case you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to, here a little thing I wrote on the popular culture & the understanding of spying and espionage in the Petrov Affair. It’s free to read here: doi.org/10.1080/144430…

Think it might be one of those seasons.

The joys of going through your four inboxes after your two weeks of annual leave.

Didn’t Ukraine do this in 1994 with the Budapest Memorandum? I can’t remember who else signed this, guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty. It’s almost as if Ukraine has just cause to distrust the two nations discussing a peace deal.

Did you know you can now book our brand-new Escape Room – The Shrine Keeper? Step back into medieval Hereford, where pilgrims flock to the shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe to leave their offerings. But during evening service, the Shrine Keeper makes a shocking discovery…

A fascinating 1983 Strategic Air Command assessment on the challenges of B52s participating in Ex ABLE ARCHER and how this could be misconstrued. The Soviets thought this exercise was a prelude to war too...