andrew corbett

Senior lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. My views are my own, but I might retweet folk with whom I don’t agree.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

There is progress in our negotiations with the European Union regarding Ukraine’s membership. We will have a very clear schedule of opportunities for moving forward in the negotiations, especially after the changes in Hungary. We met the deadlines. Now, already in June, we strongly expect to move to the opening of the clusters, which Ukraine has prepared. We've done our part. Now it’s up to the European Union.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Only Trump can save Putin.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

It would be a total failure for Europe to negotiate with Russia after its invasion, terrorism, kidnapping children, ongoing sabotage & propaganda onslaught in Europe. Putin's Russia is a terrorist state led by a war criminal. It must be defeated, cut out like the cancer it is.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The entire direction of the post-Cold War world is being decided in Ukraine. Either the free world shows it can defend itself from hostile dictatorships, allowing democracy and rights to flourish, or a descent into corruption, might makes right, and volatile spheres of power.

[William Alberque @walberque]

An important new paper from @alxgraef on the role of Sergei Karaganov in changing Russia's nuclear doctrine.

Recall that as of 2022, Russia's 2020 nuclear doctrine had a "high threshold" for use which did not match Putin's violent nuclear rhetoric. 1/7

https://t.co/Yan4HivKou

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE Police Officer.

Nigel Farage called for calm.

But when he can use racism he calls for Cold, Hard, Rage.

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

Pope Leo XIV's warning on AI - that unchecked development risks normalising war, concentrating power, weakening accountability and lowering the threshold for violence - is welcomed by @aoav. In his first encyclical, he calls for AI to be "disarmed" and insists humans, not machines, must remain responsible for decisions of life and death.
https://t.co/HHywXy7fOz

[stefanstern @stefanstern]

When he was 18 his fellow sixth-formers regarded Farage as a weird and marginal figure with disgusting and contemptible views.

What's changed?

#PMQs

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

I told CNN that people outside Ukraine don't understand how intense Russian attacks are. Ukrainians die and these deaths could have been prevented with better Western supplies of Patriots.

This is painful. It's unjust. But we're resolved. We accept it. What choice do we have.
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[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Alex Luck @AlexLuck9]

Briggs speculates that the three boats for RAN have to be Virginia Blk III, based on his assertion that USN will not let go of newer Blk IV.

Such a change would carry far bigger implications than passing on the newer Blk VII. But evidence remains absent. https://t.co/rZkb9vi2AK

[andrew corbett @CorbettAndy]

@BrandonWarmke Same with strategy; most syllabus are the study of the thoughts of dead middle aged white men (and Sun Tsu). They are history modules. Few study strategy; how to wield ways and means to meet ends in today’s climate.

[andrew corbett @CorbettAndy]

@Anglo_Japan45 @BO3673 I’ve worked with a lot of fantastic American folk, but the dumb ones really are dum.

[andrew corbett @CorbettAndy]

@BO3673 @ThresherKing Do you think he meant Malvinas?

[Natasha Clark @NatashaC]

Bridget Philipson pretting seething in response to Nigel Farage at PMQs today, speaking to @AndrewMarr9 @lbc

"I cannot imagine how brave and how difficult it must have been for Henry's father to stand there and make that plea. And then when you see Nigel Farage responding in a way that he refuses to condemn the violence, he almost seems to enjoy it. It's really disturbing.

"I hope what is coming from Nigel Farage is a condemnation of the thugs that we saw out on the street. Those mobs throwing wheelie bins at police officers, attacking police officers, causing disruption to people's homes. It is sickening. And he really seems to enjoy, he seems to feed off people's grief and their suffering. And even when the family have said just not to do it, he can't help himself. And I think when someone shows you who they are, you've really got to believe it."

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

TL;DR: He’s going to keep bullshitting his way to IPO.

This entire industry is based on an illusion. It deliberately mistakes a simulation of intelligence for intelligence itself.

Chatbots are a useful search feature, not a revolution.

It’s now a race for exit liquidity.

[Steven Pifer @steven_pifer]

Why would Rubio say something like this?

SecState's job is not to needlessly antagonize allies.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

What an unedifying spectacle it was to see MPs speaking out against the EHRC Code of Practice - displaying embarrassing ignorance of the law. One MP even suggested that the CoP meant some people could no longer get married! 🤣

Worse than their ignorance is their dishonesty as to their real intentions - to have another run at amending the law to introduce Gender Self-ID in the UK.

They are welcome to try: they can consult Nicola Sturgeon for advice. But at least they should spell out their intentions instead of making a song and dance about the Code of Practice.

Another enraging aspect of the MPs’ brain-dead performances was their refusal to say the word “lesbian.” Not a single mention of the Lesbian Intervenors who helped to reaffirm the sex-based rights of gays and lesbians.

So it is a relief to see @soniasodha explain these matters to the legally, intellectually, politically - yes, and ethically - challenged members of parliament whose only version of courage is the courage to make fools of themselves in public.

[Hans Huygens 🇺🇦 @Eurohans]

‘The French response’ 😘