Robert Pee
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Robert Pee
@RobertPee2
Research, teaching + commentary on #democracypromotion #nationalsecurity #coldwar #reagan. Author: Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy.
Reading, United Kingdom Se unió Ağustos 2013
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@7Veritas4 This is the clearest one that I've seen which is targetted at the already-existing faultlines in the MAGA coalition over Epstein files and Israel/America First.
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If hegemony is consensus protected by the armour of coercion, then US hegemony is eroding. Consensus is absent. The armour of coerion is also not doing well: shorturl.at/n0H7c
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Do you condemn the attack on the South Pars gas field, @Keir_Starmer?
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@whitkitch @jeremycorbyn He is paraphrasing a speech by Eisenhower.
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Spot the pattern in Corbyn's sermon:
War spending bad, redirect to welfare.
Yet he champions causes tied to the very ideologies that demand weapons against us.
Iran gets a pass for aggression, but Western defence is "catastrophic."
Reality check:
Without military strength, we invite more attacks – on allies abroad, on free speech at home, on our children via imported predators.
It's not principled anti-militarism; it's enabling the intolerant by disarming the tolerant.
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Whose reckless and destabilizing attack started the war @YvetteCooperMP?
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The United States and Israel have broken international law through their attack on #Iran, @YvetteCooperMP. Yet, your statement does not mention this. Why not?
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AOC offered the first draft of left‑populist statecraft at Munich, tying inequality to democratic & security risks. Missing: institutions, pipelines, capacity. Can the left build the bench? Analysis on Leviathan 👉 (link in comments) #IR #Democracy #AOC

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@daniel_dsj2110 Civilizationalism IS neoliberalism wrapped up in fascist idpol.
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@jacobin Not bad: the point about "overt support for... civil society actors and political parties..." could do with being couched in terms of the long history of US support for political forces overseas, e.g. democracy promotion, regime change operations, etc.
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Civilizationalism, the idea that world politics revolves around culturally bounded civilizations led by great powers, is energizing the Right on both sides of the Atlantic.
It is key to the effort to dismantle universalism and remake the international order. jacobin.com/2026/02/civili…
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#Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy torches US democracy promotion and switches to promoting right-wing #populism. Read to see how this meshes with the #Geopolitics of US strategy in #Europe and #LatinAmerica
robertpee.substack.com/p/trumps-forei…
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RT @jacobin: The launch of a new party was meant to reenergize the British left. But Your Party’s founding conference showed a Left that ha…
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RT @USEmpire: Trump, Mamdani, MTG, and the Concealment of an Emerging MAGA Revolt - mayor’s post-meeting statement –“pragmatic collaboratio…
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