Other the last few years D-Day seems to be increasingly understood as a mostly American enterprise in no small party thanks to Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc... But it's good te remember that there were more Anglo-Canadians than Americans on D-Day

This is 💯 on point. Years ago when I was just an aide in government of Liberia, I needed petty cash as tip for university students helping me to set up a demonstration “affordable home”. There were 12 steps to get $120. I gave up, in frustration, and used my own money.

Liberation Day traditions include reviewing HTS codes with your loved ones at midnight and discussing global capital flows around the grill

I've been reviewing many of the past year's US & European military & intelligence assessments of how long it would take Russia to rebuild its military capability and the timeline on which any threat to NATO could unfold. A brief thread below which summarises these assessments.

If it looks retarded, talks like it's retarded and acts like it's retarded, it is retarded.

Yes globalization is a fracturing a bit but we should also remember that the world’s most successful “dirt poor” to wealthy development stories took place during the Cold War when the global economy was similarly fractured. readwriteinvest.com/p/what-are-the…

1/ The past several days have been an interesting time to visit China for meetings with government officials, scholars, business leaders, etc. A few brief reflections: counterparts have emphasized China’s leaders will not countenance being seen as passive in response to US (🧵).

Brexit …. Now just a globally accepted symbol of economic error …

Premiers à partir à la retraite, avec les pensions les plus élevées de l'OCDE et la seconde espérance de vie à 65 ans. Cela ne pouvait pas fonctionner. C'est ainsi que le poids des pensions dans le PIB est comparable à l'Italie et à la Grèce malgré leur effondrement démographique

People are talking about his Pope trolling and Alcatraz, rather than the billion dollar corruption scheme.

Trump's big speech in Saudi Arabia does indeed seem quite historic -- and a recognition of a major reason China has been so successful at courting much of the developing world: "It's crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western

Many of my more leftist friends (and frenemies) have pushed me on whether Abundance has “a theory of power.” I often say it does — but they’re not going to like it. And that’s in part because its theory of power is liberal rather than populist.

Once again, I think that people in the rest of the world often hate us for bad reasons (like third worldists who think that the West got rich by colonizing them, rather than the other way around), but that doesn't mean they don't have good reasons to hate us, which they most

Found the tweet for this one.

The Night the Republic was ‘Invaded’. A short article of mine concerning the Loyalist ‘invasion’ of Co. Monaghan in 1986 – with references to current Irish security issues, and the ‘triple lock’ debate. rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Anthropic staff realized they could ask Claude to buy things that weren’t just food & drink. After someone randomly decided to ask it to order a tungsten cube, Claude ended up with an inventory full of (as it put it) “specialty metal items” that it ended up selling at a loss.

i mean its trained on silicon valley startup data

Nasty. This guy isn’t harming anyone, doesn’t say anything anti-British, he’s just ignorant in a way plenty of other British people are, of whatever ethnicity. So what’s the significance of the clip? Him being black?

The fact that these tweets by Newsome are so funny says a lot about how low American politics has fallen and how it has morphed into reality TV

There are several reasons why Charlie Kirk’s assassination will not create the sort of culture change dynamic as the George Floyd death in 2020. Attempting to do so will likely be self defeating.