2025-10-01 11:53:02
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Cold War Kids:
🎵 Every Man I Fall For
#ColdWarKids
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ng6dNDsmm44dK0qvMORqO
The icy cold war America is busy losing
https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2025/10/16/the-icy-cold-war-america-is-busy-losing
From The Economist
Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power (Michael McFaul/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-cold-war-alliances/684715/?gift=47TjPNd1fvywdLyCkprj-DIs6wmsGj4QJbq3pZpn2Ww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p3#a251029p3
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Cold War Kids:
🎵 Hang Me Up To Dry
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In one of his wildest moves to date, Trump is now offering companies access to plutonium from America’s arsenal of cold war nuclear missiles.
On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes
— a little under 42,000 pounds
— of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal.
One of the companies anticipated to receive shipmen…
«Over 700,000 people have been employed in the U.S. #nuclear weapons complex since the heyday of the Cold War - mining, transporting and processing radioactive materials for military and civilian nuclear programs at 380 sites across the country.»
The Air Force needs to be prepared to fight against an adversary like China
in a highly contested environment where no side enjoys consistent air superiority.
A major part of the recent training involved the Space Force
and simulating how enemy forces would use space-based capabilities and technologies, like satellites and sensors,
in a potential high-end conflict.
Other components, like maintaining communications and command and control elements, were tested a…
Violence is never a good answer. You don’t know what side of it you will be on.
#USpol
Slow Horses is a popular series on AppleTV lately. I highly recommend reading the books it’s based on, starting with the novel by that name, by Mick Herron. Think the George Smiley tales of British Cold War MI5, only seedier, and updated to the 21st century. Grimier, with more infighting and backstabbing. These spies are all fuck-ups who hope to get back in good graces with the real ones, but won’t. 7 novels, 3 novellas; all page-turners. Big recommend.
Trump's Warm Embrace of India Turns Cold (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/trumps-warm-embrace-of-india-turns-cold-f8d0bbee
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p38#a250802p38
Geopolitical Barriers to Globalization
Tianyu Fan, Mai Wo, Wei Xiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12084