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@roland@devdilettante.com
2025-12-13 06:31:02

apologists gotta apolgist :-) Mr. Mearsheimer you are wrong!
universeodon.com/@KFuentesGeor

Prof Kemi FG (@KFuentesGeorge@universeodon.com)
Fediverse, there was an incredible interview in the New Yorker, Nov 17, 2022, with John Mearsheimer, an international relations scholar from the Realist tradition. In this interview, Mearsheimer continues to defend his assertion that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a natural response to Western aggression and not Russian imperialism, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Further, he gets weirdly defensive about his meeting with white nationalist and autocrat Viktor Orban. But now I don…

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-09-30 23:13:32

The fallacy I've experienced in both personal relations and international politics is the belief that there exists an option in which everything stays the same. Not touching the steering wheel, simply continuing as is, will mean all is well, and it's seemingly not as much of a decision as actively interfering is.
The trolly problem exposes this belief, yet we have not really overcome it.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-23 03:39:13

When it comes to international conflict, Donald Trump learns everything the hard way.
On issue after issue
—North Korea, Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, and more
—Trump begins by bucking conventional wisdom and insisting that a bold new approach will yield breakthroughs.
Implied, and often said outright, is that past officials who worked on the matter were feeble, inept, and craven.
Trump insists that his determination and powers of persuasion will force seismic change—…

Ahead of His U.N. Speech, Remember That Trump Is Learning Geopolitics in Real Time
A guide to pushing the U.S. president more quickly up his learning curve.

@Jeff@mastodon.opencloud.lu
2025-09-25 18:46:23

NL NCTV
25 SEP 2025
2025 Threat Assessment on State Actors (DBSA)
site: english.nctv.nl/documents/publ
pdf:

Threat Assessment of State Actors 2025
The 2025 Threat Assessment on State Actors (DBSA) is being published at a turbulent time, in which international relations are becoming more unpredictable. Over the past twoyears, the threat to the Netherlands and our interests posed by state actors has in many respects remained as serious as ever, and the threat of sabotage has increased. Not one of the threats described in the DBSA has decreased. However, our resilience in the face of state threats is increasingly accompanied by uncertaint…