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Bill Sweetman
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Bill Sweetman
@ValkStrategy
Strategy, risk analysis, OSINT, communications and advocacy. 40+ years in media, seven in industry, global perspective. Blocks limited to anonymous triflers.
Katılım Haziran 2023
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Bill Sweetman retweetledi
This illiterate Twitter gremlin has never handled explosives and wants to blow up your kids so contactors can deliver sub par products. Just when you think someone can't be more of a disgrace
InfantryDort@infantrydort
I’m not really sure what the point of this article is. More stringent safety precautions? Everyone now wears a bib and a football helmet? We slow down acquisitions to the old ways where it takes so long to field something that it becomes obsolete before it ever gets employed? Or is it just to paint the Pentagon as reckless and cavalier? Using some memo from an overzealous “safety” assessment as ammo for the argument? Spoiler alert: any civilian with a safety job in the military has the risk tolerance of a…. idk.. insert metaphor of something with zero risk tolerance. I mean, thanks for the heads up I guess. I’ll give you a few clicks here. But this article gives me helicopter parent vibes. It feels like I’m getting a limp wristed handshake from someone who doesn’t get out much. Like the kind where I have to wipe my hand on my shirt to get the “ick” off after I walk away.
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@FellowshipofUK @cookmandy @Heccles94 You do know that the entire Royal family is descended from a half-foreign woman who married her German first cousin, right?
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@cookmandy @ValkStrategy @Heccles94 It's 2026, my Country is dying and you still think that calling people names has some power over them. Pathetic 😆
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Bill Sweetman retweetledi
I can promise you that 0% of these people will be in Church tomorrow
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Bill Sweetman retweetledi
@UrbanCourtyard Oi! Who are these Urbs and what are they doing in our Horto? Are they legal? Bet Biden let them in. They can all bugger off back to Urbland.
//sarc
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Sample rendering from our “Missing Middle Infill” collaboration with a Chicago architecture firm, inspired by the wonderful idea of incorporating a Louis Sullivan–esque gated arch into the courtyard entrance, with “Urbs in Horto” engraved above.
When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it adopted “Urbs in Horto”—“City in a Garden”—as its motto.
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Petrifying displays of white supremacy.
Since when did the UK get infected with christo-fascism?
This isn’t the USA…
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People need to ask this question.
Bill Kristol@BillKristol
The case for Trump's bloated Pentagon budget, to the degree there is one, is that military competition with China will be expensive. But now Trump's basically said we're not going to contest China near its borders. So what's the $1.5trillion for? Blowing up drug smuggling boats?
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@BillKristol Everything the DoD has done for more than a decade, from the B-21 to the Compensation-class battleship, is about deterring China from expansion, starting with Taiwan. According to Trump, that's now out the window.
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Trump's capitulation on Taiwan has been striking. Have any China hawks who've justified support for or acquiescence to Trump because "he'll be tough on China" reconsidered? Have any acknowledged they were wrong?
Feel free to name those who have or haven't in the replies.
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@Dr_M_Davis "If Trump was a foreign asset, what would he do differently?" is a simple and useful heuristic.
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The withdrawal of 5,000 troops from #Germany… then the cancellation of a deployment of 4,000 troops to #Poland.
I don’t see how either of these steps acts to reassure #NATO of continuing US commitment or its willingness to honour its obligations under Article 5 of the NATO Charter.
I do see how this will embolden #Putin to wage its hybrid war against NATO more aggressively and incentivise #Russia to confront NATO in coming months and years, particularly in the #Baltic States.
And, then there are #Trump’s recent statements on #Taiwan, which is sure to encourage #China to think about its opportunities in coming months and years.
I do see a worrying pattern here.
Dan Shapiro@DanielBShapiro
It's perfectly evident that the 4,000-troop armored brigade headed to Poland was canceled with no warning to our key allies, no consultation with Congress, and without (or against) the advice of our military. A dangerous, amateurish decision that undercuts our national security.
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@IAPonomarenko "The world’s premier microchip manufacturing hub", without which the industries that puff up the bloated stock market are design consultancies
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I love it: PRC hasn’t even invaded yet, and Trump is already saying Taiwan has itself to blame for wanting democratic freedom and independence from such a “very very powerful big country.”
Oh, and Taiwan apparently stole something from him again, so Emperor Xi should just go ahead and take the world’s premier microchip manufacturing hub.
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Nolan is going to get a cease and desist from Homer's general counsel
weisselberger@weisselbergers
Wait till he finds out Homer is fictional too.
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It’s pissing me off that I can’t come up with something Aly-coded that rhymes with Thucydides Trap
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Bill Sweetman retweetledi
Calm in the eye of the storm. Starmer is remarkably unruffable. I'm frustrated with his progress on defence, my area of interest, but I'm also aware that growth is the only thing that matters long term and the one thing we have needed in a turbulent world is stability.
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The howls of "TDS", had you predicted this even a year ago...
onion person@CantEverDie
i’m sure we’ll all be fine
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@FennellJW @soniasodha She takes Rupert's shilling, and that's all you need to know. Starmer must be destabilized, says Rupert, and the Anglo-Trumpist Quislings given their chance.
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@soniasodha I'm flabbergasted that you are not aware that the whole government bears responsibility for losing the voters, not just Starmer. Playing student politics mid-term looks like panic and will not help. You needed to remain resolute an solve your internal arguments in private.
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My goodness, this speaks to the PM's lack of understanding of politics. Once you've lost the voters so badly, no minister 'owes' you anything. Ministers' responsibility is to the voters and to the country, not propping up a failing PM not up to the job.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Starmer weighs up his future amid fury at 'betrayal' by his Cabinet - The Times's weekend read: * Starmer is spending weekend at Chequers. Friends say that for all the rhetoric about not walking away and public displays of defiance he is seriously considering setting out a timeline for his departure * He feels betrayed by senior figures in the Cabinet who owe their jobs to his landslide majority and his decision to appoint them to high office in the first place * The Times's disclosure that ministers had called for him to set out a timeline for his departure is a particular source of fury. 'It was unforgiveable,' one ally said * The Cabinet consensus is that Starmer has to go - it's just a question of when and how. 'The local election results show that he has lost the country and his speech proved he didn’t have the ability to turn it around,' one Cabinet minister said. 'We’re in a world where it’s either Andy or Wes now.” * Some members of the Cabinet say it will be a coronation for Burnham if he defeats Reform in Makerfield. “If Andy wins Makerfield he will be carried aloft into the Westminster tearooms on the shoulders of Labour MPs. There is simply not a world in which he doesn’t win the leadership so it must be a coronation — because the last thing we need is a damaging leadership battle.” * The briefings against Starmer are increasingly vicious. One senior Labour MP compared him to Gordon Brown, the former Labour prime minister, and accused him of 'squatting' in Number 10. 'It's over, he's in denial' * Some think Starmer has a duty to play caretaker and unifier. “If Burnham wins he needs to preside over a unifying moment for the party and bring the two sides together. It is a lot to ask of him, but it is an essential role. He cannot leave us in such a chaotic state. If he vacates the pitch and lets them fight among themselves it will be a disaster. Someone has to act as a unifier.” * Streeting has not given up on the leadership and will join any contest * For Starmer, the next month threatens to be humiliating. Most of the Cabinet are likely to go out and campaign for Burnham, the man expected to replace him if he wins. All of which could leave him out of power after less than two years in No 10 thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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If Trump was indeed a foreign asset, what would he be doing differently?
Most of what the US military has done for the last decade is aimed at deterring China from taking Taiwan, but Trump now says this doesn't matter and that the Taiwanese are thieves. No matter that the bloated stock market will implode without access to TSMC chips.
Tom Nichols@RadioFreeTom
Man, Xi must have scared the hell out of him
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@RadioFreeTom Most of what the US military has done for the last decade is aimed at deterring China from taking Taiwan, but Trump now says this doesn't matter and that the Taiwanese are thieves. No matter that the bloated stock market will implode without access to TSMC chips.
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Man, Xi must have scared the hell out of him
Acyn@Acyn
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
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@Acyn Most of what the US military has done for the last decade is aimed at deterring China from taking Taiwan, but Trump now says this doesn't matter and that the Taiwanese are thieves. No matter that the bloated stock market will implode without access to TSMC chips.
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Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
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