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24 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Good editorial wsj.com/articles/biden…
“Per­haps this is meant to be diplo­matic the­ater to ap­pease the cli­mate left. But it is a bad sig­nal if Mr. Biden con­sid­ers cli­mate to be a lead­ing na­tional se­cu­rity is­sue.”
I should add that climate and Kerry is what folke in Asia are really worried about. Read Kunihiko Miyake here:
csis.org/analysis/resol…
“What concerns conservative Japanese most is the Democrats’ persistent emphasis on global issues such as climate change, with which the United States desperately needs Beijing’s cooperation as well as contribution to effectively reduce greenhouse emissions.”

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23 Nov
Blinken is an Eurasianist
Placing European and Asian democracies on the same level (what I call Eurasianism) will likely be one of the major concepts of the Biden years
Already present in the notion of the Indo-Pacific - fundamentally an upgrade for India and Japan in American foreign policy, removing some of their geographical shackles
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23 Nov
“Before the stunned families, the officers escorted away four suspects for “defending terrorism. That’s impossible,” Aysegul Polat recalled telling an officer who left with her son. “This child is 10 years old.” nytimes.com/2020/11/23/wor…
In a middle school near Nice, a 14-year-old girl was arrested, held in custody for eight hours and subjected to a full-body search after questioning the tribute to the teacher and then, during a following debate, saying that “he had asked for it.”
One of the boys, Sohib Harid, wetted himself in his sleep after the raid and said he was now afraid to talk in school. “If I talk,” he said, “there will be the police.”
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22 Nov
The debate on Macron and Islam is not about terrorism and how to respond to it. It’s about the nature of liberalism and how to think about the Enlightenment. In one view liberalism and the Enlightenment are about a modus vivendi between different ways of life and philosophies
In the other conception liberalism and the Enlightenment are a specific way of life, a specific philosophy which in order to survive must defeat every possible alternative. You can think about it also in terms of the first Rawls and the second
That is why Macron - subscribing to the view of liberalism as a specific way of life - was bound to conclude “Islam is a religion which everywhere in crisis.” Whereas those like myself with a different view of liberalism prefer to leave those questions to experts: Muslim clerics
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18 Nov
Reading this. So far more of an Anthony Minghella movie script than the enquiry into the “mystery of fascism” I was hoping for.
This is how I see the mystery
From Perfect Fascist, the dream of Eurafrica
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17 Nov
I think they would welcome Russian troops in their land if they replaced - as the agreement stipulates - Armenian troops and that meant all of Karabakh (Russian troops are limited to very small area) was now effectively their land
People in Azerbaijan will also tell you the text allows them to request Russian exit after 5 years, but again I doubt Azerbaijan will do it. Turkish presence more important
Situation in parts of Karabakh will remain tense for a long time. I am sure Azerbaijani authorities will prefer not to be alone on the ground.
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17 Nov
If you haven’t already read this very good opinion article (before it is removed)

politico.eu/article/europe…
I regard this piece as the only viable basis for a EU-wide compromise. Every single word has been tested and measured. Two strong messages that must be combined:
“There is no real reason why Europeans should not be able to show more of a presence — and more muscle, when needed — in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, in Central and Eastern Europe, in the Balkans, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Sahel.”
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