Gavin Mount

Academic #UNSWCBR Global politics, critical security & ethnic conflict. Tweeting passing thoughts. Artwork by Max Ernst

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Curtis O’Toole writes on Aus-PNG Defence deal
Coming Home? Integration of PNG Defence Force into the Australian Defence Force https://t.co/PUs5b0Vbie

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@WhiteHouse Reminiscent of Nixon-Khrushchev 1959 Kitchen Debate?

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@NikkeiAsia @azelin A profoundly important scholar in our field and great loss.

[VoicesofWannon @VoicesofWannon]

Samantha Marshall - granddaughter of former member for Wannon and Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has come out in support for Alex Dyson

#auspol #wannonvotes #auspol25 #ausvotes #AusVotes2025 #AusVotes25 #Auspol2025

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@rogermacginty Found it.
https://t.co/Kuse7oNCG2

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@rogermacginty Hi Roger. I look forward to reading and sharing.
What is the citation? (Link is to Durham Uni library)

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@JohnBarronUSA @Planet__Claire Ah… this could be simply explained in @ABCTV. Can’t wait for your Tariff analysis.

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@JohnBarronUSA Just curious about when the next episode will be airing.
(I’ve looked for scheduling on @ABCTV but there is no statement).

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@palestrinomirko @EuroJournIR Thanks Mirko. Great paper. I mentioned I had read it to a hardened warrior (now scholar) here at #ADFA and he simply observed. "I have had a garden on every one of my deployments".
Next paper: gardening on the frontlines?

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@rogermacginty Sad and short-sighted.
As the US removes funding to critical organisations such USAID and USIP, who will fill the vacuum? China?

[Tariq Ali @TariqAli_News]

Tariq Ali, what is your attitude when dictators are toppled  in Iraq, Libya and now Syria?
There is no cause for celebration when these acts are carried out by Western imperialisms under the leadership of the United States.When they are toppled by their own people I celebrate. The West removes the people it doesn't like at a particular moment. Saddam of Iraq was a hero when he acted for the US and started a war with Iran. He became a 'Hitler' only when he invaded Kuwait imagining he had a green light from the US. Then after 9/11 they finished off him and a million other Iraqis. Five million orphans. Then they lynched Saddam,. Cause for celebration? I wrote against him produced a documentary mocking him when he was alive.
In Libya NATO killed over 30,000 Libyans to push through regime change and lynch Ghaddafi. 'We came, we saw, he died' was Hilary Clinton's celebration. French and British politicians took money from him. The LSE  begged for a big donation and its professors wrote young Ghaddafi's PhD for him. Lord Giddens compared his work to Tony Blair's own great ideas. The same people supported NATO's assault. I criticised him severely for many years.  I did not celebrate his death. What is there to celebrate in the antics of Western imperialism. The same for Syria where an internal Ba'ath coup toppled Assed and they're stitching up a deal with the US and Turkey. Iraq has not yet recovered. Libya is a wreck, ruled by rival jihadis. Syria has already been divided. The huge triumph of the West in the 90's is still playing itself out. They are no longer ashamed of displaying their double standards as we observe in the Israeli genocide in Palestine, but NATO's useful idiots in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, adornments of the bourgeois media and their supporters in the barely existent left, still pretend that advances are being made. In one of his remarks on theatre, Brech stressed that he preferred to start withe new bad things not the old good ones. There are no longer any good ones left. Centuries before him, Spinoza who has just had his sentence of expulsion rescinded by the Synagogue in Amsterdam offered his own advice: 'Neither to laugh nor to cry but to understand'. NATO liberals should reflect on it.

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ADFA Graduation Parade Day (from my office window)

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@JewishWarrior13 Very useful summary. Thank you

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution reiterating its call for achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East
The text received 157 votes in favour and 8 against, with 7 abstentions

Read more ⤵️
https://t.co/lrqaZayFNw

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The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages

https://t.co/NNTAAxuZWl

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Not a bad start for Scrabble

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@KerryBurgess https://t.co/PSPxMIDFGs

[Abier @abierkhatib]

That yummy mocking chuckle when she was asked about Canada’s position on ICJ

😂😂..

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@KerryBurgess Australian PM, Anthony Albanese might consider the crisp international legal interpretation of his namesake.

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@AndrewMessenge2 Thanks Andrew… keep the analysis coming.

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Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles launches new IST Strategy at #ADSTAR24