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[Michael Anti @mranti]

这次习近平访问朝鲜，是金正恩在机场接机。

[小泉進次郎 @shinjirokoiz]

約9年の時を経て、日韓の部隊間の訓練が再び動き出しました。今回の共同訓練は、今年１月に実施された私と安圭伯（アン・ギュベク）大韓民国国防部長官との会談の合意事項の一つです。無事に実現したことを嬉しく思います。両国の防衛協力・交流の新たな章の始まりです。

今回の訓練を成功裏に実施するために尽力した、海上幕僚監部運用支援課、防衛政策局国際政策課、運用調整参事官付、そして現場部隊の皆様、本当にありがとう！

[HMS Dragon @HMSDragon]

We remember the courage of those who sailed into danger at dawn.

From the deck of HMS Dragon we honour their sacrifice and enduring legacy, securing freedom through duty, unity and resolve.

We remember ex @RoyalNavy ORP DRAGON still laying off Normandy.

#DDay82 #LestWeForget

[Embassy of Japan UK @JAPANinUK]

The FT Nikkei UK Ekiden, now in its 3rd year, takes place on Friday 12 June! Competitors will run along the Thames path starting in Windsor. 🏃
The event celebrates today's young generation and aims to strengthen the friendship between 🇯🇵 and 🇬🇧 through this popular Japanese style relay race.🎽
Good luck to all runners, and to all the spectators - have fun cheering on your team!

[Charlie B @supbrow]

Another one for those of you with maritime-OCD:

Kharg Island 🇮🇷
#Sentinel2 🛰️📷 5 JUN 2026
#Sentinel1 🛰️RADAR📷 5 JUNE 2026

So satisfying. 🤓

@TankerTrackers @JemimaShelley @Michellewb_ @mercoglianos @MT_Anderson @tom_bike

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Robert Capa's amazing shot was taken around this time. Note the soldiers pinned down on the beach. 900 Americans were killed on Omaha. Capa survived and his images are the iconic photos of Omaha. See more on https://t.co/EEg00P0EnE

[gCaptain @gCaptain]

The Iran War Is Pushing the Global Gas Trade Into the Shadows

https://t.co/G25LjSUAmX

[Seriye Sezen @SeriyeSezen]

Political Psychology of Citizens in Rising China 2025

https://t.co/CkaEZ46Pfp

[Jamming @balticjam]

”The [Swedish] defense ministry rejects tech giants' clouds for secret data”

https://t.co/JhKYa4X6pM

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

I do not understand why some Indian and Pakistani strategic planners think very short nuclear reaction times are unique to our context. NATO and the Warsaw Pact shared borders, too, and planned on having to react in seconds to the launch of a first strike. (1/3)

[Rose Gottemoeller @Gottemoeller]

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us on June 3 to talk about my new book at the Commonwealth Club! https://t.co/amkqeqh91S

[Financial Times @FT]

How China is dismantling Uyghur society

FT analysis suggests that the Chinese state’s campaign of oppression against Uyghurs and their culture and identity has entered a new phase.

Read the full visual investigation here: https://t.co/dEmxEoxxk9

[Ken Moriyasu @kenmoriyasu]

Ultimately, the Philippines-Kyrgyzstan contest is about what kind of world the United Nations believes it represents — and where it sees the center of geopolitical gravity: the Indo-Pacific or the Eurasian heartland. https://t.co/Hf6zvrdW2t

[Snehesh Alex Philip @sneheshphilip]

Defence Secretary drops the big bomb, or I should say the big missile

Def Sec announces BrahMos deal with Vietnam, secretly signed last fiscal

https://t.co/y591EnJsjS

[Ananth Krishnan @ananthkrishnan]

A good initiative: India’s new Ambassador to China @VDoraiswami speaking in Mandarin introduces the Indian Embassy and its services. A snippet of the video that’s up on Chinese social media

[Ken Moriyasu @kenmoriyasu]

A Philippine diplomat said it was only natural for Washington to back Manila for the UNSC seat.

“The other side (Kyrgyzstan) is supported by China and Russia,” the diplomat said, adding that countries (like Japan) should be on “the right side of history” https://t.co/Hf6zvrdW2t

[Seriye Sezen @SeriyeSezen]

🔖Political Trust in China

Open access⤵️

https://t.co/19bfjo025v

[Ajay Banerjee @ajaynewsman]

With the new “political leader” of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) set to take oath, China on Sunday asked India to “refrain” from providing a platform for activities advocating “Tibetan independence” and “avoid” any interference in the reincarnation of the next Dalai Lama.
The CTA is scheduled to hold the swearing-in ceremony of the Sikyong — Penpa Tsering — on May 27 at Dharamsala. The 14th Dalai Lama will be present at the ceremony.

Link👇
https://t.co/gpti1c1Cvp
@thetribunechd @CTASpokesperson
#Tibet

[Brad R. Torgersen @BradRTorgersen]

(TL;DR) Here's the thing about WW2. It called up millions of ordinary American men who were shoved into the IET pipeline—Initial Entry Training, aka: "Boot Camp," followed by specific jobs skills training—then spat out the other end as infantrymen, signalmen, artillerymen, adjutants, mechanics, truck drivers, tankers, et al.

And when it was all done? Most of them went back to civilian life. Their service (those who survived) ended when the war was over.

These were not professional soldiers. They were normies made to perform soldiering for a specific war, and only when the war was done did they exit the soldiering life. And went back to being normies again.

But the soldiering life gave them a shared experience they would keep with them. It provided a common nomenclature and emotional framework that could be referenced in an instant. Any setting or situation. Sometimes just even by guys looking at each other. They could tell.

(break whistle, guys sitting down to open lunch buckets)
"You in North Africa?"
"Naw, Bougainville. What about him over there?"
"Jumped from a Gooney Bird over France."
"I heard that was rough."
"Not as rough as The Bulge."

And so on, and so forth.

It was for many of them *the* singular touchstone of their lives. And it cut across economics, class, status, even ethnic barriers. A language of shared suffering, shared boredom, shared laughs, shared effort, sometimes shared terror, also sometimes tears, and ultimately formed a common-denominator vibrational bedrock which echoed through the decades. Influencing both families, and communities.

[Afg Green Trend @AGTAfghanistan]

در قلمرو استبداد و چپاول:
اختراع اصطلاح جدید - نورزی سازی چپاول. هرجا که پول و ثروت وجود دارد، حتماً کسی با ریشه‌های "نورزی " در آنجا گماشته شده است. هبت‌الله سرکرده طالبان از قرآن برای توجیه استبداد و از خویشاوندانش برای اداره چپاول استفاده می‌کند.
بودجه طالبان هنوز هم سند محرمانه است. چرا؟