I’m Rooney. I swear I don’t know when that happened.

'NATO must urgently capitalise on the increased interest in the Alliance and communicate its benefits to the public' writes Ed Arnold in today's #RUSICommentary .
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.nigel biggar is of course right and Kemi Badenoch knows her history. For some odd reason, my old but erroneous friend William Dalrymple appears not to be familiar with the recent historiography of a) the British industrial revolution and b) the economics of the British Empire.

The disparity between views from India and views of India from outside is striking.

Happy #StGeorgesDay

Alternative for Germany with Chinese and Russian money... These self-proclaimed patriots are so globalized!

The admin's decision not to certify the UK & Australia for ITAR Exemptions is misguided & delays #AUKUS implementation. Continued failure to do so would demonstrate the admin is unserious about competing w/ #China . foreign.senate.gov/press/rep/rele…

It’s like a zombie movie. Is this real?

Glad to be quoted with Pooja Bhatt, Ph.D. (@poojabhatt.bsky.social) in Aadil Brar 's timely report for Newsweek regarding the significance of India's BrahMos missile delivery to the Philippines in the context of foreign policy and defence.

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Electronic Warfare specialists from Y Squadron have been in Hawaii, training with their U.S. Marines counterparts on the Radio Reconnaissance Operators Course. Operating from small boats and in the jungle, a long swim insertion and establishing OPs to detect, analyse and report #SIGINT .

Where next for British foreign policy in a dangerous world? My take on David Lammy’s “Progressive Realism”:

I will believe the “multipolar world” is rising when Xi Jinping doesn’t send his daughter to Harvard and when the Russian foreign minister doesn’t wear an Apple Watch and a Basquiat shirt.

Let’s skip the speeches about how PRC respects Ukrainian sovereignty, and ask why it insists on backing Russia’s aggressive war with all sorts of economic, diplomatic and narrative support?

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SCMP: 'Unrelenting Chinese demand from consumers, investors, and the central bank has pushed gold to all-time highs above US$2,400 an ounce. The premium paid by Chinese importers jumped to US$89 an ounce at the start of April, compared with US$35 over the past year and the

Doesn’t seem like a good look. I wonder if the protestor will press charges.

Ten Thousand Men of Harvard just sitting there staring as a Taiwanese woman activist is manhandled out of event with the PRC ambassador. 😞😞

Another ‘win win’ for PRC soft power -
‘Beijing half marathon winners stripped of medals after African trio let Chinese runner win’
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James Heale Trump saying ‘Ukrainian survival and strength…is also important to us’ clinched the deal to Johnson and left the lunatic right isolated. Trump much more nuanced than portrayed.

SCOOP: The U.S. is considering sending additional military advisers to the embassy in Kyiv, the latest show of American commitment to Ukraine as Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict.

The advisers would not be in a combat role, but rather would advise