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Core takeaway²  a. Don’t Panic, Trump Is Flagging The president has done exceptional damage over the past year. Now he’s losing steam. b. There are two important checks on Trump’s power.        i. The first and most important are elections       ii. The second check against Trump’s power lies in the courts. The lower levels of the federal judiciary have been blocking a host of Trump actions.  Trump’s second term has been much more destructive of American institutions and the international order than the first. It is…

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Donald Trump is a leading example of strong-man rulers who have arisen in recent years. One reason for their rise is the apparent inability of many liberal democracies to get things done, like building infrastructure or dealing with crime. Liberal societies tend to proliferate law and procedures, expanding the number of political actors who can veto a collective decision–something labeled “vetocracy”–which then provides an excuse for strong man rule that breaks the law. Liberals societies need to steer a path between vetocracy and would-be authoritarians like Trump, and demonstrate that…

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Alex Stamos was formerly head of security at Facebook/Meta and is a leading expert on computer security. He discusses the threats to computer security posed by the most recent advances in AI, and explains why those are much more urgent than the “existential” threats feared by many. https://youtu.be/ihWU-ets1f0?si=WEQ4P89FGtpT49Dp

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Core takeaway  As this list begins to demonstrate, what started as a pragmatic framework of international organizations for peace and cooperation has morphed into a sprawling architecture of global governance, often dominated by progressive ideology and detached from national interests.  From DEI mandates to “gender equity” campaigns to climate orthodoxy, many international organizations now serve a globalist project rooted in the discredited fantasy of the “End of History.”  These organizations actively seek to constrain American sovereignty.  Their work is advanced by the same elite networks—the multilateral “NGO-plex”— that we have begun…

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Core takeaway  The rules-based international order does not consist of any specific rules, is not accepted internationally, and does not deliver order. The rules-based international order should be considered a failed experiment from the unipolar world order, which must be dismantled to restore international law as a requirement for stability and peace. International law in accordance with the UN Charter is based on mutual constraints and sovereign equality. However, states do not constrain themselves, and international law can therefore only exist under a balance of power.  Under the hegemonic era…

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1. Seyed M. Marandi: Netanyahu in Washington – Pushing War with Iran Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi discusses Netanyahu arriving in Washington to push for increasing the pressure on Gaza and Hezbollah, and to sell another war on Iran. https://youtu.be/UzPETR2uEGs?si=iW94Vol63allO_y2

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Ο εκδότης του γνωστού αμυντικού περιοδικού Πτήση και της ιστοσελίδας flight.com.gr στην συζήτησή μας (23-12-2025) μεταφέρει εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσες πληροφορίες για την έναρξη της διαδικασίας από το Πολεμικό Ναυτικό για την απόκτηση των νέων υποβρυχίων, εξηγώντας ποιοι κλήθηκαν σε πρώτη φάση να καταθέσουν προκαταρκτικές προτάσεις, ποιοι ανταποκρίθηκαν και ποιοι… δεν φάνηκαν. https://youtu.be/VWeEnS6wnpU?si=ErCml54uIfZ0eGLm

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A brilliant piece by Michael Reynolds. “It is useful to remember that Russia and Ukraine were part of the same state for longer than the territories making up the Louisiana Purchase have been part of the United States, for longer than Geneva has been part of Switzerland, Rome a part of Italy, or Lorraine and Nice a part of France. The fundamental message Putin sought to convey was that Moscow regarded Ukraine as an inalienable part of its sphere of interest and would fight for it rather than see Ukraine…

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1.  John J. MearsheimerDecember, 17 2025 On 17 December 2025, I did a podcast with Ian Proud — the very smart and well-informed former British diplomat — on TV IMEDI, which is located in the country of Georgia. We talked about the geopolitics of Europe, especially as it relates to Georgia, which is the other country besides Ukraine that NATO said in April 2008 that it was going to bring into the alliance. Of course, that led to a war between Georgia and Russia five months later (August 2008), which…

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