Counter-Terrorism, Middle East Studies, Military History, Arabic & Latin. Board Gaming & Miniatures. BA Hist @FromTheHilltop '20. @CSTPV '21-22.
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Victoria Nuland to @mckaycoppins: "Foreign counterparts would say it to me straight up, 'The first Trump election—maybe people didn’t understand who he was, or it was an accident. A second election of Trump? We’ll never trust you again.'”
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Jon Stewart on election night: "We're all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be." #DailyShow
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Brits & the EU had four years to prepare for a second Trump presidency.
Now this looks like it is happening & we’ve been caught short.
I signed this letter. It’s just a letter.
But we really have to take European security way more seriously.
Whatever happens in the US elections, Europe must step up for security:
- Russia will lose if we commit to win
- Winning in Ukraine is the best way to help secure Europe
- A Coalition of the willing is needed to push for victory & get Ukraine into NATO
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The bear who was a private in the Polish army bbc.in/3YrIYOx
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Happy Diwali, London! ✨
I'm proud that our city hosts some of the biggest Diwali celebrations outside of India.
Watch how London celebrated the fantastic festival of lights at last weekend's Trafalgar Square event ahead of Diwali later this week.
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On this day in 1813, Napoleon takes on six massive armies at Leipzig. With nearly 600,000 soldiers engaged, it will be the largest battle ever fought in Europe until the First World War. Bonaparte is defeated.
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"Who should I be following if I want to learn more about professional #wargaming?"
Lots of excellent #wargamers are not on social media, but I want to highlight some folks. I think it is important to spotlight great #wargamers. Not an exhaustive list & more in the future. 🧵
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"The attacks, which include wild claims that Jewish officials are conspiring to orchestrate the disasters, sabotage the recovery or even seize victims’ property, are being fomented largely on Elon Musk’s X." washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Professional gaming is the application of games to examine a myriad of complex, real-world problems. This can take a variety of forms and purposes -- such as education, exploration, and analysis. "Wargaming" is just one subset of the wider field, focused on defense issues. 🧵
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100% agree
Not every elf needs to be this badass warrior. And I think characterizing Celebrimbor as an artist more dedicated to bringing light and beauty into the world than he is in warfare not only adds to his character, but makes his ending even more tragic
#TheRingsOfPower
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Also, heads up:
"Should Ukraine finally lose this war, the costs—military, economic, political—for the U.S. and its allies will not go down. On the contrary, they are likely to increase, and not only in Europe."
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Development update. Elizabeth: England Aflame. 4-7 player game about spycraft in Elizabethan England. Art by @evehkoko
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So one of the retorts to this is to argue that this fails to consider 'cultural compatibility' of some sort - 'sure *some* people fit well in Rome's empire, but that's because they were 'similar' to the Romans.
This is also pretty obviously wrong, once one gets to details. 1/
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Far from being an example of how 'cultural difference' weakens societies, Rome is perhaps the greatest 'diversity is our strength' exemplar in human history...until the United States.
The diversity of Rome - and its success - is not seriously disputed among scholars. 33/
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As always, I maintain that one of the reasons LORD OF THE RINGS is so great is that it's conservative, rooted in the illusion of a mythical Golden Past, but not reactionary, in that it never deludes itself that it can be RVTRNED to.
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I suppose we're doing this again.
This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including the periods of its greatest success in the third and second centuries, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean. 1/
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If I have time, I might write something speaking to some of the responses to this, but I am struck by the common element being goal-post moving where the point becomes 'cultural difference' and the socii/auxilia were somehow not really that different.
But he said 'non-citizens.'
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Wild historical dissonance: Russia has lost many wars and won many wars. Just as a quick sample, it lost the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–1711, the Crimean War of 1853 against Britain and France, the 1904 Russo-Japanese war, it effectively lost the First World War, the Polish war of 1920, the Afghan War, even the first Chechen War 1994-96…
