Michael Vlahos
@Michalis_Vlahos
Followers
6K
Following
13K
Media
856
Statuses
4K
Senior Fellow @Diplomacy_Peace. Military historian and strategist. Professor SAIS, AAP, US Naval War College, Centro Estudios Superiores Navales, DF (24 years).
Washington, D.C
Joined April 2014
The Telegraph didn’t flip its position. It exposed its schizophrenia, and Europe’s. The Telegraph didn’t just contradict itself, it documented Europe’s nervous breakdown. Left: smug certainty that Russia was collapsing. Right: a quiet admission that Moscow now decides the
51
249
641
A much-needed message from @dan_grazier, focusing rightly on the historical time wasted. To push his point, we have wasted a decade getting ROK shipbuilding engaged: The very decade China overtook and outbuilt our fleet. As Camus reminds: "It is always too late ..."
"These shipbuilding failures demonstrate the importance of getting things right from the beginning in acquisition programs."
1
0
7
This may not have pierced the s******k filter, so try here: https://t.co/uvPlZtdVJA
"The essence of the Sacred King is that his authority is representative of and actually embodies the totality of the society itself. In the monarch's body is the body of the citizens . . . It is metaphorical, but also ritually visceral." Last night on Londinium Chronicles,
0
0
6
This reduction in mass shootings is happening during the greatest expansion of carry rights in modern history, by the way. The opposite of what antigunners predicted.
"A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006..."
8
106
742
Listen here! @AndrewBeckUSA @ArmchairW @AntiwarNews @witte_sergei @JimBovard @CurtMills @Rux_Dacoromana @20committee @DanielLMcAdams @Doug_Bandow @byzantineprof @BRAVENEWEUROPE1 @Orthodixie @SydneyFreedberg @bradleybirzer @KelleyBVlahos @jslogel @charlesmurray @roddreher
If you seek Gnosis, you must first find the pathways that free you from the iron chains of status-seeking and ritual submission. Please listen — in all humility — if you seek such freedom in your own life!
2
2
9
If you seek Gnosis, you must first find the pathways that free you from the iron chains of status-seeking and ritual submission. Please listen — in all humility — if you seek such freedom in your own life!
"The essence of the Sacred King is that his authority is representative of and actually embodies the totality of the society itself. In the monarch's body is the body of the citizens . . . It is metaphorical, but also ritually visceral." Last night on Londinium Chronicles,
0
3
8
Shutting the door to NATO and further expansion is paramount and will make or break the #Ukraine talks. Don't miss this excellent #TriptheBeltwayFantastic episode w/ @MEpiskopos & @Michalis_Vlahos (full below!)
1
8
21
If you seek Gnosis, you must first find the pathways that free you from the iron chains of status-seeking and ritual submission. Please listen — in all humility — if you seek such freedom in your own life!
"The essence of the Sacred King is that his authority is representative of and actually embodies the totality of the society itself. In the monarch's body is the body of the citizens . . . It is metaphorical, but also ritually visceral." Last night on Londinium Chronicles,
1
1
5
The true insights, as well as the personal dynamics, must be seen and heard to be appreciated!
Shutting the door to NATO and further expansion is paramount and will make or break the #Ukraine talks. Don't miss this excellent #TriptheBeltwayFantastic episode w/ @MEpiskopos & @Michalis_Vlahos (full below!)
0
0
0
Trump's killings of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Did President Obama kill far more innocent people with almost zero political recoil? In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, “We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists.” Was he counting the wedding
2
8
24
The most highly cultivated Americans — like Daniel Bell — are at the same time so slave-captured by existential Zionism that they can no longer see the life-trap that they have entered into.
@DavidAvromBell So what then is the way ahead? His media-normed abasement, truthfully, is an aperture into shifting "truths" for a magma-moving plate shift in our reality. Americans — collectively — are now at an existential inflection point. Do you see, or are you blind?
1
1
3
We all think our ether-pronouncements are immortal, yet there is a thread here that we need to hearken to: Of the magesterial move from Republic to Empire: @AntiwarNews @AndrewBeckUSA @ArmchairW @BowesChay @CurtMills @20committee @Rux_Dacoromana @DanielLMcAdams @Doug_Bandow
"What you see in places like Brazil, where the president is headed for prison after he leaves office, and then if he gets back into office, he will go after his predecessor who put him in prison -- [that] is one of the key markers of the collapse of a republic." Last night on
0
10
25
Me, and the intrepid Mark Episkopos, on "Strangling the Ukraine Peace Deal in the Crib" — a sad, baroque lamentation!
And please, if you're liking the Trip, subscribe on You Tube or for a weekly alert/newsletter here: https://t.co/R4mD9xHAcI
2
2
4
My take — as Germanicus — on the 28-point plan, on the future of Ukraine, and on the future of NATO: https://t.co/6XmG3WZY4x
api.omarshehata.me
Salvē! This episode of Londinium Chronicles was broadcast live yesterday on YouTube, X, and here on Substack.
1
4
12
"What you see in places like Brazil, where the president is headed for prison after he leaves office, and then if he gets back into office, he will go after his predecessor who put him in prison -- [that] is one of the key markers of the collapse of a republic." Last night on
1
5
22
This is the key: The fatal corruption in this war: https://t.co/U3uFnMRx4A
https://t.co/30u5sbC334
braveneweurope.com
Will the Truth About Ukraine’s Staggering Death Toll Finally Bring an End to the War? Michael Vlahos is author of the book Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change. He taught strategy at Johns...
There is a particularly monstrous Catch-22 that has created an information space where all credentialed Western leaders (political, thought and otherwise) are incentivized to call for endless escalation in Ukraine. The key? Serious discussion of Ukrainian losses is forbidden.⬇️
0
2
12
The great — and intentional — misapprehension of Progressive Universalists is that they believe a mere motto is enough to create unity and belonging. This is false. Kinship, real or imagined, is the true glue of nations. Progressives hence expose the lie in their "just say these
@AndrewBeckUSA "Kinship drives culture, and cultural rules shape society. National community in modern times is shaped by imagined kinship and the need for collective belonging and identity. Modern nations construct kinship through the belief that all citizens are related, and thus committed,
0
1
10
Prewar — absent the inarguable authority of the next war — militaries instead preference their desires, and thus innovate and optimize accordingly. Often, they optimize the wrong innovation. A classic example is the world buying spree mania for all-big-gun (Dreadnought)
@ArmchairW Is there any reason for the second proposition (optimization) to preclude the first (innovation)?
3
0
7
Gaius and Germanicus reflect on the daily unraveling of the American Republic, the snares and delusions of a Venezuelan Adventure, and the waning days of an Emperor — our own!
"What you see in places like Brazil, where the president is headed for prison after he leaves office, and then if he gets back into office, he will go after his predecessor who put him in prison -- [that] is one of the key markers of the collapse of a republic." Last night on
1
3
15
Via @20committee — this amounts to an "official bulletin" that Z is at the bus stop, and the bus is on the way! @20committee @KelleyBVlahos @amconmag
https://t.co/kjONyz9CLd
rferl.org
Ukraine has been rocked by a corruption scandal in which suspects allegedly discussed millions of dollars worth of kickbacks on protection for energy plants, even as Russian bombs raining down on...
4
1
7