Victor Gavin

Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona and FC Barcelona' supporter. Lover of good soccer, good food, good beer and good friends.

[Barça Handbol @FCBhandbol]

🏆 𝑪𝑨𝑴𝑷𝑰𝑶𝑵𝑺 𝑫𝑬 𝑳𝑨 𝑪𝑶𝑷𝑨 𝑫𝑬𝑳 𝑹𝑬𝑰! 🥳

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Después de soltar la tontería del día asegurando que ha parado 8 guerras, el senil de Donald Trump se durmió en mitad del despacho Oval con decenas de cámaras delante suya.

Que la paz del mundo dependa de este anciano con problemas cognitivos y demencia es para ir construyendo un búnker en el patio de casa ante el peligro que supone.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

"We've made ourselves irrelevent..." the now late Alex Younger on the effect of Brexit. We are living through a time when the smart people are away from public space. He was an exception.

[euronews @euronews]

"Patience is a good start with the Chinese."

Australian trade minister Don Farrell tells #EuropeToday the EU will need "strategic patience" when dealing with Beijing, adding that diversifying trade has been successful for Australia.

[Laurent Albaret @laurentalbaret]

[Devoir de mémoire] Le Service historique de la Défense [SHD] organise le 2 juin 2026 au château de Vincennes une série de conférences dédiées à l’historien, combattant et résistant Marc Bloch, à quelques jours de sa panthéonisation : https://t.co/mUvWTMgK5v #MarcBloch 🇫🇷

[Barça Basket @FCBbasket]

SIIIIII! CAMPIONS!!!!! 💪🏆

🏀 Reial Madrid 77-85 Barça

#NextGenEuroleague

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[FC Barcelona Femení @FCBfemeni]

🏆 𝗦𝗢𝗠 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗗'𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗔 🏆

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an extraordinary document written by the research arm of China's spy agency (the powerful MSS, basically the CIA and the FBI all wrapped in one) that absolutely zero media has picked up on.

As far as I can see, I'm the first person to write about it even though it was published (in Chinese) on May 13th on https://t.co/6uFjJ6ObmL, a website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The document contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed.

The title of the report is “The Great Global Transformation and the Path to U.S.–China Coexistence” and I provide a full translation of it in my article, the link of which is at the bottom of this post.

To summarize briefly the most important - and, perhaps, surprising - aspect of the document: China's spy agency - the one institution whose entire job is to worry about the U.S. threat - has largely stopped worrying.

That's really what transpires from the document. They use a strategic framework borrowed from Mao's "protracted war" theory and, according to this framework, America's offensive phase is finished and China weathered the storm intact.

The question is no longer "how do we survive America?" but "how do we manage America?" - and they're proposing a six-step relationship recovery program.

I'll let you read the full document as well as my analysis of it here: https://t.co/vDvWFZJlrQ

[FRANCE 24 Français @France24_fr]

Charles de Gaulle et la Résistance : l'Histoire de France à l'honneur à Cannes https://t.co/g1AwhACGnT

[Le Figaro @Le_Figaro]

Marwan, un universitaire irakien a réagi face à l’annonce par la presse américaine de l’établissement de deux bases secrètes israéliennes dans son pays aux premiers jours de la guerre lancée par les États-Unis et l’État hébreu contre l’Iran. →https://t.co/gnDnZVhAQa

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

How come that this has not been top news for many days?!

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Filmación de 1897 muestra la vida cotidiana en Jerusalén, específicamente cerca de la histórica Puerta de Jaffa. Grabada por Alexandre Promio para la compañía Lumière, esta pieza documental de la época otomana es uno de los archivos filmicos mas antiguos del mundo.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.”

- John F. Kennedy

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

This is a remarkable shift.

People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US.

The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

[Barça Handbol @FCBhandbol]

𝐒𝐎𝐎𝐎𝐌 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐀 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐀 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐒 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐈́𝐀 𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐋 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓/𝟐𝟔 🔥🔥🔥

3️⃣3️⃣ títols de Lliga 🏆
1️⃣6️⃣ campionats consecutius

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

Despite all the bluster around Orban’s supposed economic successes, Hungary lags towards the bottom of the East European “convergence” club. More at today's Chartbook Top Links!

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Absolute Cinema 🔥

Trump: "We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz"

US Senator: "But it was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war?"

This will remain EPIC 🔥

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Spain is now the undisputed leader of Europe. Would have seemed impossible just a few years ago

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

this map is the story of the last 25 years of us foreign policy in its own backyard. and that was before the tariffs.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

WOW. 46% of Italians and 37% of French people see the U.S. as a threat