#Diplomats

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Astonishing. This is the medal given to UK diplomats for their services. It depicts a white angel stamping on the neck of a black man. #InstitutionalRacism https://twitter.com/wayne_reid79/status/1273391715546804225 The black man

Soner Cagaptay

SonerCagaptay

How Turkey and Greece exchanged their populations?In 1923-24, Turkey and Greece exchanged their Orthodox and Muslim populations, respectively, using not ethnicity or self-identification but religious marker as the criterion for

Veritas Semper Vincit

semper_vincit

1/Russia's response ( in diplomatic terms ) :1.Ambassador John Sullivan was advised to leave Moscow 2. Ten US diplomats will be expelled from Russia3. Moscow is introducing a ban on

Ben Riley-Smith

benrileysmith

The Telegraph has been leaked details of notes made during seven high level UK-US meetings. They show Boris Johnson privately told US diplomats Trump was “making America great again”. Also

soma ☀️

sjhaydari

sis says 'your people' as if I'm not a Kurd. I tried being humble but awai amn krditm to help my people, niwat nakrdia. You hide behind your phone and

Michael Weiss 🌻🇺🇸🇮🇪

michaeldweiss

The backstory of how this all went down in Warsaw is both hilarious and terrifying, FYI. From what I've heard from a senior Polish military official, the decision to send

Daniel Markey

MarkeyDaniel

𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢'𝘴 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯 explains how Beijing's global ambitions collide with local realties.Today @ambassadorbrief is running a summary of the book. It makes 3 main observations:https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190680199/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_bIcPE

Raphael Rashid

koryodynasty

Footage emerges of wife of Belgian Ambo to Korea accused of assaulting shop staff. After trying on clothes for 1 hour and not purchasing anything, staff mistook that she had

BENUEGIANT🦍

one_dosh

Do you know why Ethiopia is respected as a nation in Africa? Have you heard of the battle of adwa? Well if you have or haven’t let me bring this

Karan

rathorekaran17

China man miscalculated. What was to be a neat salami slice op along with added toppings of doing down Indian Govt, has gone horribly wrong. Now they are getting the

Unknowable Entiby

UnknownEnby

Six Ages: year 10! A decade in the Storm Age. This is going to be a shorter update, as most of the actions this year were fairly routine diplomacy and

Stephen Dziedzic

stephendziedzic

Great discussion here with @TurnbullMalcolm and @HerveLemahieu 1/ Turnbull gives a *very* blunt assessment of Morrison's negative globalism speech, saying it quickly became an "embarrassing absurdity" in the coronavirus era

Zach Weinersmith

ZachWeiner

Some morning thoughts on space politics:So, whenever I post something about the Moon landings being almost entirely a political move, I get lots of (polite!) people telling me that of

PEG

pegobry

A few words about the historic nature of this deal, which today many are downplaying.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1305975008750194688 They are saying that Israel and Sunni Arab states have worked together to counter their

politi_geek

politi_geek

We now know that Russia has been paying a cash bounty for the killing of US troops in Afghanistan and that our government was both aware of the situation and

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

Uh...THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COLLUSION LOOKS LIKE. Flynn is telling Kislyak -- in secret -- not to take the predictable retaliatory step because then they will be "boxed in" and