Van Jackson

Peace studies and the class politics of geopolitics. Newsletter and Podcast(s):

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

The Rivalry Peril has a cover! Everything Washington has told you about great-power competition is wrong. Come January 2025, @mbrenes1 and I are gonna reveal why! #TheRivalryPeril

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

I’ve backed defensive arms for Ukraine, I view Russia as engaged in imperialist geopolitics, and I think Putin is at best a very bad hombre. But even that’s not enough for the Ukraine flag- waving militarists because I also demand a plausible strategy and redress of root causes

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

The important thing is that as long as you make hand gestures in the direction of Russia, nobody is allowed to question you and everything you think is correct and any criticism of your preferences deserves mockery and ad hominems

[Megan K. Stack @Megankstack]

I thought you guys said this wasn’t a proxy war.

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

It’s very early days, but the emergent signs about what’s going to happen when the Bluenami crashes into the Hill does not look promising…certainly nothing proportionate to the urgency of the crisis

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@ryangrim Do you have any idea of how toxically jingoistic the China committee is?

[Eric Blanc @_ericblanc]

My research found that 25 of the Democratic Party’s 32 Senate candidates explicitly ran against the billionaire class

When ppl like @mattyglesias say "moderation" won Democrats their majorities, they’re confused or lying

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

When the cool senior lets the freshmen into the group selfie

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

The surest indicator of European chauvinism is refuting this piece on the grounds that European elites “have no alternative” to militarism because Russia. Thanks for proving my point https://t.co/eWuY9heV2c

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@Harrison_J_Mann @WinWithoutWar One of the lessons from the Obama years

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@p_e_t_e_r_s_e_n What is “residual availability of DoD funds?” Is that a euphemism for the remainder of the federal discretionary budget?

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Unsurprisingly, this post has rage-baited the Bsky libs

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

“The march to remilitarization across Europe has everything to do with elites papering over swelling domestic legitimacy problems associated with moribund economies and once solid welfare states turning to papier-mâché.”https://t.co/eWuY9heV2c

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

The politicians of the center-left are warmongers because they’re servants of capital. But the thing is the really believe it https://t.co/eWuY9heV2c

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

@Switch82Vet No that’s the beauty of this, we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@RubenGallego @Switch82Vet https://t.co/eWuY9heV2c

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

“The march to remilitarization across Europe has everything to do with elites papering over swelling domestic legitimacy problems associated with moribund economies and once solid welfare states turning to papier-mâché.”https://t.co/eWuY9heV2c

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@ErikSperling We’ve had this discussion before but Ro is not doing good work on the China committee; the China committee is not doing good work. I like Ro fine but he’s the worst on China policy. Yes, I know it’s bc of his staff. Still, the committee is a den of jingos and crackpot realists

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

You’re not going to be able to get a grip on the $1.5 trillion war budget if you don’t disband the China select committee…which is precisely why corrupt defense-industrial interests will lobby to keep it

[Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12]

New - Some Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are encouraging leaders to scrap the China committee

Ami Bera: "we’ve already got a Foreign Affairs Committee, we’ve already got the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific..."

w/ @Eleanor_Mueller
https://t.co/nhHKcqBrwc

[Julia Gledhill @JuliaGledhill]

On Van Hollen's potential bid for Majority Leader and the fight to cut off Iran war funds👇

https://t.co/hJ4RzVa0S5

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@BobAllen2020 I thought they did a great job of underscoring the brutality of American empire! They even cut in a clip of Lumumba’s final moments as a captive with an evil narration from Malkovich

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Wild Horse Nine was amazing. As a pure entertainment play, you can’t go wrong with John Malkovich as a dying CIA man in 1973 Chile . As a political film, it’s the best I’ve seen in a long time

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

A CIA assassination campaign is also a war. American empire is at war in far too many places

[Steve Fisher @Stevelfisher]

Inside the CIA’s armed operations in Mexico:

The CIA enlisted a Chihuahua state prosecutor under investigation by the FBI for his suspected cartel ties. He embedded CIA officers with state police—and got his revoked U.S. visa back.

The CIA sought to build a Mexican special forces unit in Chihuahua state

CIA officers helped plan Mexican police deployments, and provided rifle cover during one raid.

Masked Americans joined a meth-lab raid. Two CIA officers later died in a cliffside crash, exposing the mission.

With @jacknicas
https://t.co/BGgXYGEFoz

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

Will Lawrence put stopping AI data centers, ending reckless wars, and fighting corruption on the ballot...and he beat two national security Democrats and a Republican incumbent! What must happen now couldn’t be clearer

[William Lawrence @WeWillMi]

The GOP spent more against me than any other House candidate in the country.

We knocked on 350,000+ doors and won anyway, running on stopping AI data centers, ending reckless wars, and fighting corruption.

[Van Jackson @RealVanJackson]

@Jeremy_Hecht Polo G’s Last Man Standing brought tears of rage. Radicalizing fr https://t.co/onikRE1Ed3