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Co-founder of International Intrigue (@intriguemedia.bsky.social) Former diplomat and recovering lawyer. Trying to understand what's about to happen in global politics and various sports.

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4 key questions from Assad’s collapse International Intrigue, Monday 9 December 2024

I am particularly proud of this morning's edition of Intrigue covering the 4 key questions we're asking after Assad’s collapse.

Even better, unlike some prominent geopolitical commentators, we promise never to delete it even if we're wrong.

https://buff.ly/3CZp2vh

#syria #assad

09.12.2024 14:25 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Oh wow.

06.12.2024 13:43 👍 107 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 0

Maybe. I dunno. My issue is I saw an investment deck a few yrs ago predicated on the market size of making ppl feel guilty for not tipping. Not innovation. just give me a 2.5% slice of good humans' guilt. It's a robber baron age again just 1s and 0s instead of train tracks.

06.12.2024 04:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.12.2024 18:39 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
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06.12.2024 03:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Whatever you do, don't check out @explaintrade.com's awful joke about this.

04.12.2024 14:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A social media post by former president Moon Jae-in calls on the military to resist upholding "unconstitutional declarations of martial law" and for the National Assembly to request a lifting of the declaration, which - as per the ROK constitution - the president would be required to oblige.

03.12.2024 16:05 👍 314 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 5

Sold. We'll write it up!

03.12.2024 15:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone got any idea what's going on behind the scenes in South Korea?

I (and the @intriguemedia.bsky.social team) would love to chat with anyone with any SK political experience!

03.12.2024 15:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exhibit A.

03.12.2024 14:17 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Looks more like the Rio Grande to me.

03.12.2024 14:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People on X moan about the media being biased and people on Bluesky moan about the media being biased.

Take it from a media founder, the most bipartisan thing in the world is how much some folks bleat when their opinions aren't reflected back at them.

03.12.2024 14:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Go to bluesky they said, it's a much nicer place they said

03.12.2024 14:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But it's really hard to understand what and Yoon has history of being politically impulsive I'm told...

03.12.2024 14:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌍 Chipping away Plus: Conspiracy of the day

"The CHIPS Act’s three biggest bets were that America’s Intel, Korea’s Samsung, and/or Taiwan’s TSMC could help revive domestic chip-making in the US. But after Pat Gelsinger just retired from Intel, only one of the three is looking promising."

archives.internationalintrigue.io/p/tuesday-bb...

03.12.2024 13:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Follow International Intrigue, to hear updates from the best damn foreign affairs newsletter team in the business, and also from John Fowler, who I guess works there or something.

27.11.2024 21:46 👍 29 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

I don’t like this new site I just seemed to get dragged by trade nerds

30.11.2024 01:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone (mostly @explaintrade.com) laughed at us when we wanted to bring our highly amusing and witty takes on global news to Bluesky.

Well, nobody's laughing now.

27.11.2024 21:24 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 7 📌 1
Sen. Josh Hawley Presses Visa and Mastercard on Profit Margins
Sen. Josh Hawley Presses Visa and Mastercard on Profit Margins YouTube video by NowThis Impact

If I could vote in the US, and if i forgot about the supporting insurrection stuff, this would almost get me on this guy's side youtube.com/shorts/dFK_u...

24.11.2024 01:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well I'm fucked.

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