[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @shashj Shashank Joshi Shashank Joshi posts on X about ukraine, russia, national security, away from the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::17175213/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +82% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +193% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +1.20% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::17175213/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +9.80% - X Month XXX +7.50% - X Months XXXXX +12% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::17175213/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.16% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.17% - X Months XXXXXXX +2% - X Year XXXXXXX +12% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::17175213/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #5430 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #5392 [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #378, [russia](/topic/russia) #156, [national security](/topic/national-security) #131, [away from](/topic/away-from) #66, [the world](/topic/the-world) 2.68%, [china](/topic/china) #348, [the presidents](/topic/the-presidents) #29, [white house](/topic/white-house) #1236, [the white](/topic/the-white) 1.79%, [strike](/topic/strike) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@reportinglibya](/creator/undefined) [@hwilliamssomers](/creator/undefined) [@majorgrubert](/creator/undefined) [@interestoholic](/creator/undefined) [@dauphinb](/creator/undefined) [@taufiqzrahim](/creator/undefined) [@theeconomist](/creator/undefined) [@hotelchuck](/creator/undefined) [@davidrobjant](/creator/undefined) [@hoplitebetrayed](/creator/undefined) [@crispinrovere](/creator/undefined) [@jaydubskis](/creator/undefined) [@tom_bike](/creator/undefined) [@robantfost](/creator/undefined) [@alessionaval](/creator/undefined) [@ca945hg](/creator/undefined) [@consumerofmonch](/creator/undefined) [@blister_v](/creator/undefined) [@jonathan_church](/creator/undefined) [@heringsburger](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)](/topic/crowdstrike) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Absurd deadline that reflects either ignorance or pretext to walk away from commitments. US "wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense cap. from intel to missiles by 2027 Pentagon officials told diplomats in DC this week"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996941904101925064) 2025-12-05T13:57Z 222.2K followers, 196.4K engagements ""French naval infantry fired last night at drones flying over the naval base at Ile Longue in Brittany which houses French nuclear submarines. This was reported by Afp. Five drones the gendarmerie explained flew over the submarine base of Ile Longue"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996925906237936099) 2025-12-05T12:53Z 222.2K followers, 14.1K engagements ""In other words immigrants will corrupt the values of the societies they move toa shocking assertion from a country that is itself built on immigration. The NSSs prescriptions for Europe flow from this assertion of Judeo-Christian nationalism."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996951106119663789) 2025-12-05T14:33Z 222.2K followers, 22.6K engagements "Imagine if any European government had written in an official strategy document: "the growing influence of moderate & pro-democracy forces in America in recent state elections gives great cause for optimism." This doc is Vance-Munich on steroids & undoes work of Hague summit" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996847712873206226) 2025-12-05T07:42Z 222.2K followers, 64.1K engagements "One of the most offensive lines in this NSS is the idea that "a large European majority wants peace" but that this is suppressed by gov't "subversion of democratic processes". By "peace" they mean capitulation. In fact majority of Europeans back aid to Ukraine" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996916042577203287) 2025-12-05T12:14Z 222.2K followers, 133.4K engagements ""The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. X attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996975895521743281) 2025-12-05T16:12Z 222.2K followers, 16.2K engagements "Interesting on growing use of submarines by drug traffickers. 'They have even been detected in the middle of the Pacific Ocean bound for markets in Australia and New Zealand some 4000 miles from their point of departure in Colombia.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995801384793395359) 2025-12-02T10:25Z 222.1K followers, 15.4K engagements "I think a lot is going to hinge on two things. One is the specific orders Hegseth gave prior to mission. He denies a no-quarter order but he has previously lied publicly. Second is whether second strike was aimed at killing survivors or destroying the boat. More facts needed" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995798228852179251) 2025-12-02T10:12Z 222.2K followers, 39.1K engagements "This was really an effort I think to signal and to try to scare the Maduro government and Maduro himself into leaving or overthrowing him if he refused to go. That hasnt happened" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995802046167978079) 2025-12-02T10:27Z 222.2K followers, 14K engagements "'Other useful thought exercises include considering the possibility of an attack on Guams cables given . the militarys extensive presence there; attacks on cable landing stations in remote parts of Washington and Oregon also merit analysis'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995803857016811761) 2025-12-02T10:34Z 222.1K followers, 5944 engagements "Insecure by design. "The Chinese-made DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model produces more insecure code when prompts mention subjects considered sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) according to recent research from Crowdstrike."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995871670960357832) 2025-12-02T15:04Z 222.2K followers, 8576 engagements "Setting aside the Americas since January the administration has bombed Yemen Somalia Iran Iraq & Syria. The president has also threatened to bomb Nigeria" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995981084706640302) 2025-12-02T22:19Z 222.2K followers, 59.9K engagements "Trinidad and Tobago. "Persad-Bissessar admitted on Friday that at least XXX marines were in the country along with a military-grade radar believed to be a long-range high-performance AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996214118886326478) 2025-12-03T13:45Z 222.2K followers, 15.2K engagements ""Chinese-born boffins have long made up the largest group of foreign researchers in America. An exodus just now as the worlds two largest economies are locked in bitter trade conflict will erode one of Americas biggest advantages"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996287495034503612) 2025-12-03T18:36Z 222.2K followers, 13.1K engagements ""A similar trend is apparent among scientists. Nearly 20000 of them with Chinese origins (judged by their names) departed America between 2010 and 2021 according to research by Yu Xie a sociologist at Princeton University in New Jersey."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996288003912716521) 2025-12-03T18:38Z 222.2K followers, 7192 engagements "In case you missed it: this week reporting from Bangalore I wrote for @TheEconomist on why entrepreneurs in India's defence-tech ecosystem are feeling optimistic and why the drone exchanges with Pakistan in May gave a boost to military start-ups" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996914782101017085) 2025-12-05T12:09Z 222.2K followers, 6478 engagements "'it is now technologically feasible for a bad actor to launch a coordinated attack on dozens of cablessuch as the XX . cables that connect Taiwan to the rest of the world. Thats not a scenario most nations have mapped out nor prepared for.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995803650610942266) 2025-12-02T10:34Z 222.2K followers, 8564 engagements "Germany's army chief. 'Freuding had once been able to text American defense officials day and night he said but lately communication with his counterparts in Washington had been cut off really cut off.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995936184074469429) 2025-12-02T19:20Z 222.1K followers, 25.3K engagements "Sobering Telegram column on the warped and radical worldview of ideologies in the Trump administration. 'Europe is being singled out. In todays Washington it is often spoken of with greater loathing than either China or Russia.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996284814341570876) 2025-12-03T18:26Z 222.2K followers, 33K engagements "Spiegel publishes phone transcripts involving several European leaders discussing Ukraine. Stubb: "We must not leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys" (Witkoff & Kushner) Rutte: "I agree with Alexander that we need to protect Volodymyr"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996626578890281173) 2025-12-04T17:04Z 222.2K followers, 48.1K engagements ""we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets.and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words we will assert and enforce a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996863768480174235) 2025-12-05T08:46Z 222.1K followers, 30.9K engagements "'Himes the House Intelligence Committees top Democrat told reporters after his meeting with Bradley that the admiral had conveyed to him and Crawford the committee chair that there was no order from Hegseth to kill them all.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996866532065132672) 2025-12-05T08:57Z 222.1K followers, 7646 engagements "Over at the FBI we have ongoing abuse of federal government resources for personal benefit" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996929090490642593) 2025-12-05T13:06Z 222.2K followers, 30.1K engagements "Trump: "our country cannot afford to house tens of millions of people that came in through birthright citizenship. When that happened that was meant for the . the babies of slaves"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998403114026553687) 2025-12-09T14:43Z 222.2K followers, 13.4K engagements "UK Ministry of Defence says that a member of the UK armed forces has died in an accident in Ukraine on Tuesday morning. "He was injured in a tragic accident whilst observing Ukrainian forces test a new defensive capability away from the front lines."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998446770326495628) 2025-12-09T17:36Z 222.2K followers, 13.7K engagements "Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again. "Over the long term it is more than plausible that within a few decades .certain NATO members will become majority non-European" "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996843086685917586) 2025-12-05T07:24Z 222.2K followers, 668.9K engagements "Where does this radical Trump national security strategy leave Europeans - It is a bad omen for where admin is going on Ukraine diplomacy on force posture in Europe & on Europe/Russia policy more broadly. - It represents a return to the US assault on Europe of Feb reversing modest gains made after Hague summit & Euro-diplomacy in Washington. You can see the gaping lack of trust in the leaked Merz/Macron/Stubb/Rutte phone calls published by Spiegel this week. - It will reinforce the view that not only is the US commitment to Europe waning but that the US sees nothing to deter & defend" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996871192595009986) 2025-12-05T09:16Z 222.2K followers, 100K engagements ""Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's newUS National Security Strategy calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1997688978095690006) 2025-12-07T15:25Z 222.2K followers, 195.5K engagements "I think we might take a minute to ask why the American government has sent a real estate developer and the president's son in law to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin rather than - say - the secretary of state or a professional diplomat or indeed anyone with training" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995964696596447291) 2025-12-02T21:14Z 222.2K followers, 546K engagements "Not only is Rubio skipping the NATO foreign ministers' meeting a break from XX years of practice but the US is sending @DeputySecState a man who publicly questioned NATO's need to exist less than six months ago. Message received loud & clear" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996125750148190601) 2025-12-03T07:53Z 222.2K followers, 152K engagements ""Messages sent from Hegseths account over Signal came from a classified message explicitly labeled SECRET/NOFORN" The explanation below relies on a sleight of hand: the implausible notion that Hegseth consciously & deliberately declassified what was classified information before sharing it" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996553579985809410) 2025-12-04T12:14Z 222.2K followers, 77.3K engagements "Feeling is mutual. Europe wants America to remain American to regain its open and democratic values and to abandon its relentless assault on allies and partners & its coddling of adversaries. But looks like there is little chance of that until after 2028" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996853410608685557) 2025-12-05T08:05Z 222.2K followers, 67.1K engagements "@hwilliamssomers I don't think it changes the meaning in the slightest. The implication is the same: more brown people in Europe are bad" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996858739543200126) 2025-12-05T08:26Z 222.2K followers, 16.6K engagements "Trump NSS frames Taiwan as chips & geography: "There is rightly much focus on Taiwan partly because of Taiwans dominance of semiconductor production but mostly because Taiwan provides direct access to the Second Island Chain" "deterring a conflict over Taiwan ideally by preserving military overmatch is a priority"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996862831241597398) 2025-12-05T08:42Z 222.2K followers, 29K engagements ""A member of the UK armed forces who died in Ukraine has been named as Lance Corporal George Hooley of the Parachute Regiment.It is the first time a UK military death has been publicly announced since February 2022."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998733971526447305) 2025-12-10T12:38Z 222.2K followers, 11.7K engagements "'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley commander of the US Special Operations Command was responsible for ordering asecond targeted strikeon an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September X after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1995578579543806080) 2025-12-01T19:39Z 222.2K followers, 482.3K engagements ""A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November XX. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996655101025685549) 2025-12-04T18:57Z 222.2K followers, 186.2K engagements "Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. ".the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996841122912784696) 2025-12-05T07:16Z 222.2K followers, 389.6K engagements ""Americas diplomatic efforts should focus on pressing our First Island Chain allies and partners to allow the U.S. military greater access to their ports and other facilities to spend more on their own defense and most importantly to invest in capabilities aimed at deterring aggression"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996862940255768821) 2025-12-05T08:43Z 222.2K followers, 26.6K engagements "Extraordinary abdication of tech competition" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998161334329094174) 2025-12-08T22:42Z 222.2K followers, 119.8K engagements "'And Europe is if you take a look at Paris its a much different place. I loved Paris. Its a much different place than it was. If you take a look at London you have a mayor named Khan.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998400763060462078) 2025-12-09T14:34Z 222.2K followers, 35.6K engagements "The contrast in how the NSS talks about Europe v Middle East/Africa is striking. In latter US "should encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically without trying to impose it from without."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998519253046276293) 2025-12-09T22:24Z 222.2K followers, 9037 engagements ""The gravest electoral interference threat although by no means the only one is Russia. Evidently the Kremlin regards crypto as an important tool of statecraft as seen from the development of theA7A5stablecoin"" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998520415246024794) 2025-12-09T22:29Z 222.2K followers, 11.7K engagements "Incredible. 'Hegseth told an audience in a previously unreported 2016 video that the US military wont follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief and described the refusal of illegal commands as a part of the militarys ethos'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996182627980915190) 2025-12-03T11:40Z 222.2K followers, 67.2K engagements "'Messages sent from Hegseths account over Signal came from a classified message labeled SECRET/NOFORN according to a person familiar with the discussions.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996281944011915635) 2025-12-03T18:14Z 222.1K followers, 26.8K engagements "Insane that these are commercial satellite photos" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996621107663962313) 2025-12-04T16:42Z 222.2K followers, 1.7M engagements "As far as I can see this nat sec strategy is far harsher on Europe than on Russia. There is no mention of a threat from Russia or of deterrence only that "re-establishing strategic stability" is a priority. Europe is cast as a major threat to freedom" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996845360988262537) 2025-12-05T07:33Z 222.2K followers, 82.3K engagements "Hard-hitting journalism from the new Pentagon press corps. Pullitzer in the post no doubt" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1996931010999496855) 2025-12-05T13:13Z 222.2K followers, 37K engagements "Madness. 'the private version of the NSS proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded. administrations and movements. Austria Hungary Italy and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should work more withwith the goal of pulling them away from the European Union.'" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998512126919319813) 2025-12-09T21:56Z 222.2K followers, 247.3K engagements ""outsiders cannot help but note that Jared Kushner the presidents son-in-law is organising the financing of Paramount Skydances bid and the investors include a number of sovereign-wealth funds from countries with cordial relationships with Mr Trump."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998758720931770523) 2025-12-10T14:16Z 222.2K followers, 4761 engagements ""it will be controversial to say the least for a large chunk of one of Americas biggest media companies to be owned by Gulf monarchies and the presidents son-in-law. A combined Paramount and Warner would own CNN as well as CBS News."" [X Link](https://x.com/shashj/status/1998760073187963028) 2025-12-10T14:21Z 222.2K followers, 4093 engagements
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@shashj Shashank Joshi
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @reportinglibya @hwilliamssomers @majorgrubert @interestoholic @dauphinb @taufiqzrahim @theeconomist @hotelchuck @davidrobjant @hoplitebetrayed @crispinrovere @jaydubskis @tom_bike @robantfost @alessionaval @ca945hg @consumerofmonch @blister_v @jonathan_church @heringsburger
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"Absurd deadline that reflects either ignorance or pretext to walk away from commitments. US "wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense cap. from intel to missiles by 2027 Pentagon officials told diplomats in DC this week""
X Link 2025-12-05T13:57Z 222.2K followers, 196.4K engagements
""French naval infantry fired last night at drones flying over the naval base at Ile Longue in Brittany which houses French nuclear submarines. This was reported by Afp. Five drones the gendarmerie explained flew over the submarine base of Ile Longue""
X Link 2025-12-05T12:53Z 222.2K followers, 14.1K engagements
""In other words immigrants will corrupt the values of the societies they move toa shocking assertion from a country that is itself built on immigration. The NSSs prescriptions for Europe flow from this assertion of Judeo-Christian nationalism.""
X Link 2025-12-05T14:33Z 222.2K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Imagine if any European government had written in an official strategy document: "the growing influence of moderate & pro-democracy forces in America in recent state elections gives great cause for optimism." This doc is Vance-Munich on steroids & undoes work of Hague summit"
X Link 2025-12-05T07:42Z 222.2K followers, 64.1K engagements
"One of the most offensive lines in this NSS is the idea that "a large European majority wants peace" but that this is suppressed by gov't "subversion of democratic processes". By "peace" they mean capitulation. In fact majority of Europeans back aid to Ukraine"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:14Z 222.2K followers, 133.4K engagements
""The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. X attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election""
X Link 2025-12-05T16:12Z 222.2K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Interesting on growing use of submarines by drug traffickers. 'They have even been detected in the middle of the Pacific Ocean bound for markets in Australia and New Zealand some 4000 miles from their point of departure in Colombia.'"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:25Z 222.1K followers, 15.4K engagements
"I think a lot is going to hinge on two things. One is the specific orders Hegseth gave prior to mission. He denies a no-quarter order but he has previously lied publicly. Second is whether second strike was aimed at killing survivors or destroying the boat. More facts needed"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:12Z 222.2K followers, 39.1K engagements
"This was really an effort I think to signal and to try to scare the Maduro government and Maduro himself into leaving or overthrowing him if he refused to go. That hasnt happened"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:27Z 222.2K followers, 14K engagements
"'Other useful thought exercises include considering the possibility of an attack on Guams cables given . the militarys extensive presence there; attacks on cable landing stations in remote parts of Washington and Oregon also merit analysis'"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:34Z 222.1K followers, 5944 engagements
"Insecure by design. "The Chinese-made DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model produces more insecure code when prompts mention subjects considered sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) according to recent research from Crowdstrike.""
X Link 2025-12-02T15:04Z 222.2K followers, 8576 engagements
"Setting aside the Americas since January the administration has bombed Yemen Somalia Iran Iraq & Syria. The president has also threatened to bomb Nigeria"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:19Z 222.2K followers, 59.9K engagements
"Trinidad and Tobago. "Persad-Bissessar admitted on Friday that at least XXX marines were in the country along with a military-grade radar believed to be a long-range high-performance AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR""
X Link 2025-12-03T13:45Z 222.2K followers, 15.2K engagements
""Chinese-born boffins have long made up the largest group of foreign researchers in America. An exodus just now as the worlds two largest economies are locked in bitter trade conflict will erode one of Americas biggest advantages""
X Link 2025-12-03T18:36Z 222.2K followers, 13.1K engagements
""A similar trend is apparent among scientists. Nearly 20000 of them with Chinese origins (judged by their names) departed America between 2010 and 2021 according to research by Yu Xie a sociologist at Princeton University in New Jersey.""
X Link 2025-12-03T18:38Z 222.2K followers, 7192 engagements
"In case you missed it: this week reporting from Bangalore I wrote for @TheEconomist on why entrepreneurs in India's defence-tech ecosystem are feeling optimistic and why the drone exchanges with Pakistan in May gave a boost to military start-ups"
X Link 2025-12-05T12:09Z 222.2K followers, 6478 engagements
"'it is now technologically feasible for a bad actor to launch a coordinated attack on dozens of cablessuch as the XX . cables that connect Taiwan to the rest of the world. Thats not a scenario most nations have mapped out nor prepared for.'"
X Link 2025-12-02T10:34Z 222.2K followers, 8564 engagements
"Germany's army chief. 'Freuding had once been able to text American defense officials day and night he said but lately communication with his counterparts in Washington had been cut off really cut off.'"
X Link 2025-12-02T19:20Z 222.1K followers, 25.3K engagements
"Sobering Telegram column on the warped and radical worldview of ideologies in the Trump administration. 'Europe is being singled out. In todays Washington it is often spoken of with greater loathing than either China or Russia.'"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:26Z 222.2K followers, 33K engagements
"Spiegel publishes phone transcripts involving several European leaders discussing Ukraine. Stubb: "We must not leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys" (Witkoff & Kushner) Rutte: "I agree with Alexander that we need to protect Volodymyr""
X Link 2025-12-04T17:04Z 222.2K followers, 48.1K engagements
""we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets.and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words we will assert and enforce a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine""
X Link 2025-12-05T08:46Z 222.1K followers, 30.9K engagements
"'Himes the House Intelligence Committees top Democrat told reporters after his meeting with Bradley that the admiral had conveyed to him and Crawford the committee chair that there was no order from Hegseth to kill them all.'"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:57Z 222.1K followers, 7646 engagements
"Over at the FBI we have ongoing abuse of federal government resources for personal benefit"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:06Z 222.2K followers, 30.1K engagements
"Trump: "our country cannot afford to house tens of millions of people that came in through birthright citizenship. When that happened that was meant for the . the babies of slaves""
X Link 2025-12-09T14:43Z 222.2K followers, 13.4K engagements
"UK Ministry of Defence says that a member of the UK armed forces has died in an accident in Ukraine on Tuesday morning. "He was injured in a tragic accident whilst observing Ukrainian forces test a new defensive capability away from the front lines.""
X Link 2025-12-09T17:36Z 222.2K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again. "Over the long term it is more than plausible that within a few decades .certain NATO members will become majority non-European" "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure""
X Link 2025-12-05T07:24Z 222.2K followers, 668.9K engagements
"Where does this radical Trump national security strategy leave Europeans - It is a bad omen for where admin is going on Ukraine diplomacy on force posture in Europe & on Europe/Russia policy more broadly. - It represents a return to the US assault on Europe of Feb reversing modest gains made after Hague summit & Euro-diplomacy in Washington. You can see the gaping lack of trust in the leaked Merz/Macron/Stubb/Rutte phone calls published by Spiegel this week. - It will reinforce the view that not only is the US commitment to Europe waning but that the US sees nothing to deter & defend"
X Link 2025-12-05T09:16Z 222.2K followers, 100K engagements
""Russia has welcomed Donald Trump's newUS National Security Strategy calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision.""
X Link 2025-12-07T15:25Z 222.2K followers, 195.5K engagements
"I think we might take a minute to ask why the American government has sent a real estate developer and the president's son in law to negotiate directly with Vladimir Putin rather than - say - the secretary of state or a professional diplomat or indeed anyone with training"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:14Z 222.2K followers, 546K engagements
"Not only is Rubio skipping the NATO foreign ministers' meeting a break from XX years of practice but the US is sending @DeputySecState a man who publicly questioned NATO's need to exist less than six months ago. Message received loud & clear"
X Link 2025-12-03T07:53Z 222.2K followers, 152K engagements
""Messages sent from Hegseths account over Signal came from a classified message explicitly labeled SECRET/NOFORN" The explanation below relies on a sleight of hand: the implausible notion that Hegseth consciously & deliberately declassified what was classified information before sharing it"
X Link 2025-12-04T12:14Z 222.2K followers, 77.3K engagements
"Feeling is mutual. Europe wants America to remain American to regain its open and democratic values and to abandon its relentless assault on allies and partners & its coddling of adversaries. But looks like there is little chance of that until after 2028"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:05Z 222.2K followers, 67.1K engagements
"@hwilliamssomers I don't think it changes the meaning in the slightest. The implication is the same: more brown people in Europe are bad"
X Link 2025-12-05T08:26Z 222.2K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Trump NSS frames Taiwan as chips & geography: "There is rightly much focus on Taiwan partly because of Taiwans dominance of semiconductor production but mostly because Taiwan provides direct access to the Second Island Chain" "deterring a conflict over Taiwan ideally by preserving military overmatch is a priority""
X Link 2025-12-05T08:42Z 222.2K followers, 29K engagements
""A member of the UK armed forces who died in Ukraine has been named as Lance Corporal George Hooley of the Parachute Regiment.It is the first time a UK military death has been publicly announced since February 2022.""
X Link 2025-12-10T12:38Z 222.2K followers, 11.7K engagements
"'The White House said Monday that Adm. Frank M. Mitch Bradley commander of the US Special Operations Command was responsible for ordering asecond targeted strikeon an alleged drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September X after the first strike did not kill everyone aboard.'"
X Link 2025-12-01T19:39Z 222.2K followers, 482.3K engagements
""A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November XX. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket""
X Link 2025-12-04T18:57Z 222.2K followers, 186.2K engagements
"Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. ".the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.""
X Link 2025-12-05T07:16Z 222.2K followers, 389.6K engagements
""Americas diplomatic efforts should focus on pressing our First Island Chain allies and partners to allow the U.S. military greater access to their ports and other facilities to spend more on their own defense and most importantly to invest in capabilities aimed at deterring aggression""
X Link 2025-12-05T08:43Z 222.2K followers, 26.6K engagements
"Extraordinary abdication of tech competition"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:42Z 222.2K followers, 119.8K engagements
"'And Europe is if you take a look at Paris its a much different place. I loved Paris. Its a much different place than it was. If you take a look at London you have a mayor named Khan.'"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:34Z 222.2K followers, 35.6K engagements
"The contrast in how the NSS talks about Europe v Middle East/Africa is striking. In latter US "should encourage and applaud reform when and where it emerges organically without trying to impose it from without.""
X Link 2025-12-09T22:24Z 222.2K followers, 9037 engagements
""The gravest electoral interference threat although by no means the only one is Russia. Evidently the Kremlin regards crypto as an important tool of statecraft as seen from the development of theA7A5stablecoin""
X Link 2025-12-09T22:29Z 222.2K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Incredible. 'Hegseth told an audience in a previously unreported 2016 video that the US military wont follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief and described the refusal of illegal commands as a part of the militarys ethos'"
X Link 2025-12-03T11:40Z 222.2K followers, 67.2K engagements
"'Messages sent from Hegseths account over Signal came from a classified message labeled SECRET/NOFORN according to a person familiar with the discussions.'"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:14Z 222.1K followers, 26.8K engagements
"Insane that these are commercial satellite photos"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:42Z 222.2K followers, 1.7M engagements
"As far as I can see this nat sec strategy is far harsher on Europe than on Russia. There is no mention of a threat from Russia or of deterrence only that "re-establishing strategic stability" is a priority. Europe is cast as a major threat to freedom"
X Link 2025-12-05T07:33Z 222.2K followers, 82.3K engagements
"Hard-hitting journalism from the new Pentagon press corps. Pullitzer in the post no doubt"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:13Z 222.2K followers, 37K engagements
"Madness. 'the private version of the NSS proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded. administrations and movements. Austria Hungary Italy and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should work more withwith the goal of pulling them away from the European Union.'"
X Link 2025-12-09T21:56Z 222.2K followers, 247.3K engagements
""outsiders cannot help but note that Jared Kushner the presidents son-in-law is organising the financing of Paramount Skydances bid and the investors include a number of sovereign-wealth funds from countries with cordial relationships with Mr Trump.""
X Link 2025-12-10T14:16Z 222.2K followers, 4761 engagements
""it will be controversial to say the least for a large chunk of one of Americas biggest media companies to be owned by Gulf monarchies and the presidents son-in-law. A combined Paramount and Warner would own CNN as well as CBS News.""
X Link 2025-12-10T14:21Z 222.2K followers, 4093 engagements