Alexander Clarkson 

Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also at @aphclarkson.bsky.social

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

After a long road I'm proud that my book "Die Macht Der Diaspora" for @Ullstein, which explores the history of diasporas in Germany will be on sale from 29 September. It looks at diasporas from Ukraine, the Western Balkans, Turkey, Iran and the Arab World
https://t.co/pbWoN6VTCo

[Dr. Dimitri Algret Minic @DimitriMinic]

Medinsky's statement is hardly surprising. The mere fact that Putin has once again appointed him to lead the Russian delegation speaks volumes about Putin's willingness to make meaningful concessions.

His continued role as Russia's chief negotiator since 2022 suggests that the central issue remains Ukraine's very existence as an independent state, rather than primarily Europe's security architecture or economic and energy considerations.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

So much of the Russian elite putting all its cards on Trump reminds me of how it put all its cards on Yanukovych

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

...is what Dem congressional committee chairmen will be asking as they prepare subpoenas for Witkoff and Kushner

[Vladimir Frolov @vfroloff]

Who could ask for more?

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

@davetroy The key to SV fascism IMV is more a misreading of Asimov than a misinterpretation of Hegel

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Or perhaps an alternative hypothesis is that outside a very narrow range of highly specialised professional skills, Karp is an erratic crank whose delusions of grandeur are fuelled by a hugely excessive amount of cash and other sources of stimulation

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

People are getting this extremely wrong. Karp in particular is not "pivoting left" — this is explicitly "Hegelian synthesis," a merger of left-right ideology which is rooted in Marxism and Soviet Reflexive Control doctrine. What they're saying here is that the old left/right paradigm is obsolete. What you're getting here is a Karp/Thiel left-right synthesis and that was always the case. Folks don't know the history or philosophy sufficiently well to parse this, and need to get up to speed quickly.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

@davetroy I think the power this SV subculture has amassed makes these guys dangerous, but I question the coherence of their worldview beyond a crude blend of Nietzsche, Foundation novels and Marvel myth that fuels a conviction that they have a divine right to determine humanity's future

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

I'm sure the IRGC gets a cut, but heavily subsidized refined products being smuggled to other countries when Iran is facing shortages of gasoline and diesel ultimately seems like a net negative for Iran

[Timothy E Kaldas @tekaldas]

Alex Karp is the Mostafa Bakry of the United States.

[Mohamed Mandour @m_medhaat]

Egypt’s foreign minister will be in D.C. in coming days to meet congressional leaders of both parties on U.S. military aid to Egypt. U.S. law ties part of that funding to human rights progress. Congress must ask him about the six jailed Matsadaash journalists and Lina Attalah.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Man könnte es auch von demokratische Geselligkeit sprechen

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

This

https://t.co/oEyx6RS0wI

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A USF professor and nurse from Nigeria has been in ICE custody for 2 months. She no longer appears in the database but might be in Louisiana. She had a protection from removal order/no record. This is inhumane we must get these people out of detention.

https://t.co/RFyALkvtaE

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

To avoid getting caught in strategic contradictions it would help if Dems differentiated between interests of the Iranian people and those of Iran's regime.

Doing so doesn't mean backing war, but it does help develop a realistic understanding of what might prevent its swift end

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Hamawy here reflects a broadly well-intentioned sentiment that at this point can be found across the US Democratic Party which will struggle to cope with realities in which the Iranian regime's leadership continues to pursue a course as murderously destabilising as Trump's

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Rep. Adam Hamawy tells a seemingly incredulous CNN anchor that, when it comes to Iran, the United States is “making adversaries when we should be making friends.”

@HamawyForNJ | @CNN

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

The reaction to the Abu Dhabi talks feels a bit like some commentary towards the current Middle Eastern wars that often are along the lines of "Does Trump plunging the United States into a disastrously inept military campaign mean that Europe is failing?"

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Not quite sure that the EU not being at the table of talks that are a performative farce to keep an erratic and weakening US President happy says that much about the future trajectory of European power

[Dimitar Bechev @DimitarBechev]

The US, Russia and Ukraine are at the table in Abu Dhabi. Europeans are largely on the sidelines.

As I argue in Scramble for Europe, EU (+UK) has gone from shaping the international order to defending its place within it.

Question is whether Europe can recover its agency.

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

Trump, Witkoff and Kushner's deluded inability to get either Ukraine or Russia to budge from core strategic goals might however tell us a lot about the future trajectory of American power

[Alexander Clarkson  @APHClarkson]

It's kind of fascinating to watch the Putin regime double down on efforts to influence and rely on the power of a US President that is extraordinarily unpopular within the US.

Almost reminiscent on how it doubled down on support for Yanukovych in the mid-2010s.

[Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel]

Judging only by comments from Russia's lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, the Abu Dhabi talks don't appear to have yielded much progress. (Medinsky also appears to be dissing the Europeans.)

[Mike Eckel @Mike_Eckel]

Judging only by comments from Russia's lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, the Abu Dhabi talks don't appear to have yielded much progress. (Medinsky also appears to be dissing the Europeans.)