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Aris Roussinos
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Contributing Editor @UnHerd. Author: REBELS (2014)
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Jul 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Assuming the answer isn’t just “move to Northern Europe,” presumably one effect of rising Med temperatures will be the eventual depopulation of the plains & coastlines & a return to the currently depopulated mountains (in Greece’s case, a return to pre-modern settlement patterns) In much of premodern Greece, the coastline was depopulated due to Corsair raids, and the plains due to malaria: high population density in the mountains, often out of reach of Ottoman tax collectors, made currently depopulated villages then prosperous cultural centres Image
Jun 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Images from the 1953 Soviet war film “Ships Storm the Bastions” about the Russian conquest of Corfu in 1799. Corfu would remain a Russian dependency until 1805: Corfu’s half-century of British rule was almost entirely directed towards keeping the island out of Russian hands again





Under Russian rule, Corfu and the Ionian Islands were granted notional independence— the first Greek state since the fall of Byzantium— as an oligarchic Septinsular Republic, with a very cool flag:
Sep 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Jul 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Vote Supermac to:

✅ Just build houses

✅ Preside over economic growth and rising living standards

✅ Attempt to preserve Britain’s status as an autonomous major power within a European civilisational bloc 😢
Jun 17, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
For @unherd, I spent a week in the Donbas embedded with the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (Right Sector), in their first mission since being formally absorbed into the Ukrainian army, tasked with harassing advancing Russian troops: unherd.com/2022/06/on-the… Formerly the militia of the Right Sector party, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps (DUK) has now been absorbed into the regular army as an elite professional force
Jun 16, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The Macronian synthesis is surely that a deepened European political, cultural and defence relationship with Ukraine isn’t a brake on strategic autonomy, but a catalyst, as the US inevitably turns to the Pacific, medium-term. See Macron citing Ukraine as the spur to develop his longstanding dream of accelerated European defence/tech development, eg:
May 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There's a good long read to be written (no-one's done it yet) on the very recent flourishing of RW samizdat publishing pretty much entirely manifested through Twitter The normiecon argument is that Twitter strangles conservative voices etc, but it's actually a very efficient incubator for esoteric and heterodox strands of RW thought and aesthetics, nurturing a space that floats under the radar, voicing opinions too obscure to be bannable
Aug 14, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
The newish sub-discipline of rebel governance studies exists to counteract the dominant IR trope that non-state actors, even brutal ones, can't also be sophisticated and effective governance providers: a lot of the discourse this week shows why this is needed How do rebels build legitimacy? For an introduction to the topic, see Duyvesteyn (2016): tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Aug 13, 2021 • 31 tweets • 7 min read
The ultimate NATO defeat in Afghanistan won’t be the ANA’s military collapse, but if Taliban 2.0 governance ends up being objectively better, more stable and more widely perceived as legitimate than what came before. They’re making the right noises to reassure external governments, especially EU countries keen to resume deportations:
May 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
In the mid-19th c, a large part of Corfu’s economy was based on growing a specific type of citron or etrog for the Ashkenazi Jewish market. The Wikipedia page is bizarrely dramatic, involving Halachic disputes, cartels, blood libel, pogroms, and boycotts: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cit… Image Somehow, the cession of Parga (a former Venetian and then British dependency on the Epirus coast) to the Albanian warlord Ali Pasha by Sir Thomas Maitland created a controversy over whether or not Corfu citrons were kosher ImageImageImage
May 1, 2021 • 30 tweets • 20 min read
Contemporary British account of the end of British rule in Corfu, 2nd June 1864, (quoted in Xenocracy: State, Class, and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864, by Sakis Gekas) Sir Thomas Maitland, or "King Tom," who ruled the Ionian Islands as an enlightened despot, building infrastructure and hanging rebels.
Oct 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Is there a possibility the leap in drone effectiveness leads to an escalatory response/precaution where, instead of worrying about defensively knocking out the UAVs overhead, the focus becomes knocking out their launch sites/platforms deeper past the immediate battlefield? What would that look like? Goering’s 1940 focus on RAF airbases, only with waves upon waves of missiles?