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Out this week. The history you never learned in school; the argument you never thought you’d make
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Doug Saunders
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Doug Saunders
@DougSaunders
International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, Maximum Canada, etc.
Toronto, Canada Katılım Mart 2009
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@Mauerback This is just one of those things that will forever divide people, like gold dress or blue dress
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@DougSaunders One of the few times I disagree with you Doug.
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Gaaa! If you’re going to make one of them permanent it should be standard time not DST! This way, it’ll be 2 or 3 hours between waking up and the sun rising in northern cities.
You want evenings to be dark. That’s what they’re for. But sun rising at 9am kills the day
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@DougSaunders Hendrix closed the festival. Many people had gone home by the time he came on.
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The most overlooked fact about the Woodstock music festival is that Sha Na Na, the late-1950s nostalgia act (in 1969!) attracted a crowd several times larger than Jimi Hendrix did. The entire subsequent political history of the United States can be discerned from that fact
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@DougSaunders Bowzer is on Twitter and you’d better hope he doesn’t see this.
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@InsiderTakes It does depend on what metric you’re examining. There is too much dependence on US systems and command and control, he’s right about that. Just he comes to the opposite conclusion.
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@DougSaunders Your first point holds but it’s hard to argue non-US NATO is better armed. USA maintains a majority of NATO ship tonnage, well over half of all aircraft and heavy lift, and nearly the entire bomber fleet.
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The failure here is lack of realization that collective defence is its own national interest. Middle countries didn’t join NATO for US protection, but to make it unnecessary for any one country to need that level of armament. Non-US NATO is collectively better armed than USA
Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby@USWPColby
There is a great deal of hubbub about a collective “middle powers”strategy these days. At DoW, we are not concerned that this is a serious possibility. Rather, we are more concerned that a few allies and partners will *think it is* and waste valuable time, money, and political capital on a distraction. 1/
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@JodiesJumpsuit The sudden discovery of the president’s incapacitation in the debates was a vote shock, and his decision to keep the presidency didn’t help. An earlier or better transition or different candidate might have won a couple more states but I doubt enough to win the election.
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@DougSaunders You don’t think the tacit admission the dem establishment made by subbing in Harris at that late hour wasn’t an influencing factor on the perception of the party by voters?
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It is amazing how much of the dramatic politics of the past 2 years have been caused by populations and leaders mistaking the temporary anomalies of the post-pandemic restarting of the world economy -- a burst of inflation, an immigration-reopening spike -- for permanent features
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@JodiesJumpsuit It convinced 3 million people who hadn’t voted for him in 2020, and that was enough!
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@DougSaunders To be perfectly honest, that isn’t very convincing.
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@JodiesJumpsuit Do I *wish* Biden had made Harris president rather than just candidate? Absolutely. But that’s a moral point. Trump won because a lot of Americans wanted to vote for him over *any* Democrat, and that was because so many just lost their minds in the pandemic
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@JodiesJumpsuit Swing-state margin numbers show that a different Dem presidential candidate or posture would not have won. The vote-turning development was Trump’s choice to campaign almost entirely on the lie that 2023 inflation and border spikes still existed, and were products of policy.
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@Rex_Jas Sorry, free rein. Immigration rates I know but spelling I don’t
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@Rex_Jas In fact, Canada’s immigration rate has consistently hovered around 1% (broadly 0.9 to 1.2) since the 1950s, when it was higher. There was a big influx of temporaries after the pandemic because provinces were given free reign to fill pandemic gaps and some over-used it
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@JodiesJumpsuit It isn’t about “recent developments.” It’s about mistaking temporary post-pandemic effects for permanent features. Russia’s imperialism didn’t have electoral effects in the West because there was unanimity. But the 2024 GOP margin was entirely about manipulation of those mistakes
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@DougSaunders This honestly reeks of you coming to a conclusion and trying to work backwards to justify it. Of course all elections reflect recent economic developments, always have. But odd you’d conspicuously leave out the Russian invasion of Ukraine in your economic analysis.
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Colby’s thread also sounds strikingly like Molotov arguing in 1940 that small nations had become an anomaly: “Baltic nations, including Finland, will have to join the glorious family of the Soviet Union”
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Trump’s election of course was entirely caused by pretending those anomalies, both of which had ended by 2024, were permanent features and results of partisan policy rather than inevitable temporary effects. But even Canada responded to the second as if it had been a fixed thing
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Actually, it looks as if most of the world wants this semifinal match to be a contest for control of those expensive islands
YouGov@YouGov
With the Eng v Arg World Cup match sparking internet arguments about the Falklands, here's a reminder of where countries stand on the dispute 🇬🇧 57% UK / 16% Arg 🇺🇸 35% / 24% 🇩🇰 31% / 23% 🇸🇪 28% / 23% 🇩🇪 24% / 30% 🇫🇷 23% / 27% 🇮🇹 21% / 32% 🇪🇸 14% / 52% Results link in replies
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It could end up being England-Argentina. Chin up chaps and don’t mention the Malvinas!
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@DougSaunders In 5 years, when Europe has adopted enough AC, they'll be the norm in Europe as well!
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As a reporter in the States, I found that 7am business breakfast meetings were the norm (especially prevalent on the west coast for obvious reasons). Nobody in UK would ever schedule any business thing before 10am. In Germany, 9 at earliest
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Why is Greece my favourite country you ask?
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