Alexander Clarkson
@APHClarkson
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Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @aphclarkson.bsky.social
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Joined December 2011
After a long road I'm proud that my book "Die Macht Der Diaspora" for @Ullstein, which explores the history of diasporas in Germany will be on sale from 29 September. It looks at diasporas from Ukraine, the Western Balkans, Turkey, Iran and the Arab World https://t.co/pbWoN6VTCo
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At this point the lack of US ability to shape events looks pathetic
Trump says he will hold phone talks with Cambodian and Thai leaders to end the war
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Nikkei: When a Chinese fighter jet directed its radar onto aircraft from Japan's Self-Defense Forces this past Saturday, Japanese defense officials tried to contact their Chinese counterparts through a hotline but received no response, according to Tokyo. https://t.co/3cjSTsilGr
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Failure of communication amid heightened tensions raises fears of accidental clash
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The flag and barbed wire post from a few tweets up seem to have set up their position opposite the customs and excise building in Boeung Trakoun at about 13.98562, 102.85104 https://t.co/dhJ9X4HlE2 So obviously, they have reoccupied the position after withdrawing following the
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Also strikes on the Royal Hill Resort scam compound in O Smach at around 11am. https://t.co/ofLu6ngxCT 14.432998, 103.697380 https://t.co/DxHlROzcFh 26/
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More drone footage showing the same strikes on the Thmor Dar compounds. https://t.co/SjCOALQHim I'm not going to re-geolocate since theyre the same strikes, but further confirmation of the location. (please lmk if you know the video source for those screengrabs)
Thai Marines Strike Cambodian-Linked Base in Thmor Da On December 10 at 10:00 a.m., Thailand’s Chanthaburi and Trat Border Defense Forces, through the Trat Marine Task Force, targeted a scammer base in Thmor Da, Pursat Province, directly across from Chamrak Subdistrict, Trat
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https://t.co/2AEJbKftnW Strikes on the Sai Taku Casino/Scam Centre in Chob Kokir Khang Lich. 14.333976, 103.177849 https://t.co/32A2glgBh5 This same building was hit in July too, in one of the few strike footage packages Thailand released in the first round of fighting.
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CAMBODIA: Another Oddar Meanchey scam compound has taken a pounding during ongoing conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. The Sai Taku Resort scam compound in Choam appears to have suffered significant damage. 1/4
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What Clausewitz didn’t consider: war between Thailand and Cambodia is an extension of organised crime by other means as rival elites sacrifice their citizens’ lives over the spoils from illegal scam centres and casinos
This pretty much encapsulates one of the most ludicrous conflicts to erupt in recent years
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LISTEN UP EURO LIBERAL *Sells the best NVIDIA chips to China so they can close the final gap in tech*
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This pretty much encapsulates one of the most ludicrous conflicts to erupt in recent years
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Thai soldiers and supporting armor (Stryker) advancing into Cambodia. They carry rolls of barbed wire which means they intend to hold onto captured grounds.
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.@gideonrachman: "The NSS makes clear that there is now a battle under way between two different versions of the west — which pits the US and Europe against each other. The Trump administration view of “western civilisation” is based on race, Christianity and nationalism. The
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The White House sees mass immigration as a bigger threat than Russia — and it is pressuring Europe to agree
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@APHClarkson Indeed. CEE has always been diverse and complex. The irony is that the "Anglosphere" has also always been diverse and complex (e.g. in the UK, English nationalists tend to ignore or forget about regional and national differences)
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In a few years time we are going to see a kind of Warsaw or Bucharest shock among Anglosphere Right wing think tankers who go to Central and East European states expecting a "lost" ethno-national purity and end up in disbelief at how diverse and complex CEE Europe is.
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It is bizarre to see how out of date many UK and US think tanks are when it comes to their understanding of EU integration dynamics or migration trends reshaping Central and East European society
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The EU has only lasted this long because each ideological strand of European politics has come to view the EU as a key means through which to achieve its goals. In a world where CEE EU countries even under Right wing governments are also out of econ necessity importing migrants.
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A reason part of the Euro Far Right has become more comfortable with pan-Europeanism is they view it as a means to strengthen collective borders and close Europe off from the world. A trend the left struggles to counter and Anglosphere types are blind to https://t.co/sy64sUDmh1
The European exception here is Ireland, where Irish exceptionalism has convinced its elites, it's left and even Irish Republicans mass migration will end up being different to that in Paris, Brussels or West Yorkshire. It won't be, not least as there is no plan to make it
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According to that logic NATO is destined to fail as well and West European states would never have even put in the effort to help Ukraine. Anglosphere observers have a history of underestimating the resonance of the European idea going back to the Eurozone crisis or even 1957
Perhaps. But just as you can't sell Molenbeek, Savile Town or Saint Denis to people in eastern or central Europe, you are not going to sell that future for people in the US either.
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Rwanda shows its complete contempt for Donald Trump’s “peace process” by actually stepping up its military operation and seizing the town of Uvira in eastern DRC just after Paul Kagame signed the deal in Washington. Extraordinary timing.
Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have entered the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Uvira, with reports of artillery fire in towns and villages, civilian casualties, and other abuses. These reports underscore the urgent need for civilian protection.
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European left wing parties are looking to Denmark. Perhaps they should look to Spain. https://t.co/WM9FLudOJd
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