Shashank Joshi
@shashj
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Defence editor @TheEconomist, Visiting fellow @warstudies KCL. Signal: shashank.96. Speaking engagements: https://t.co/8V3SSBwUYe
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Joined November 2008
In its weekly update, the Pentagon touts that it requested the DOJ and FBI to execute a warrant at a reporter's house. (The move was a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's ongoing attacks on news media)
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I'm reminded of this. "Almost one-third of Republican primary voters would support bombing the fictional kingdom of Agrabah, according to a report released by Public Policy Polling on Friday." https://t.co/mdQCHzxGR4
theguardian.com
Public Policy Polling also found that about 54% of the Republicans they polled support banning Muslims from entering the US, as Donald Trump has proposed
Per a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll, a majority of Republicans support "military action" in: -Venezuela (83%) -Iran (75%) -Mexico (74%) -Cuba (71%) -Greenland (57%)
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I’ve seen some focus on the security forces’ death toll during Iran’s anti-regime protests. It’s important to note that, according to eyewitnesses and reporting by @ICHRI, families are being forced to declare their slain loved ones as “martyred” Basij to receive their bodies.
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I asked Carney in Beijing if China was now a more predictable partner to Canada than the US. He said: “Yes, in terms of the way that our relationship has progressed in recent months with China, it is more predictable, and you see results coming from that” https://t.co/Wt5UFC4dwd
nytimes.com
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.
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Israeli military reporter @OrHeller is saying in this video that according to IDF resources, the US already notified Israel on Wednesday that it will attack Iran that night but hours later Trump decided not to. Why did he decide this according to this video? He didn’t have enough
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Funniest part of the Tooze profile is that his nemesis is Jake Sullivan.
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Danish FM 'added in a written statement after Ms. Leavitt’s remarks that if the United States does not respect Denmark’s territorial integrity and the self-determination of the Greenlandic people, the working-group process “will not be successful and will probably be
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WH now grossly misrepresenting what was agreed with Denmark. 'Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters that a delegation from Denmark and Greenland had agreed “to continue to have technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland.”'
nytimes.com
The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.
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"The head of Denmark's Arctic Command, Søren Andersen, has today invited the United States to a military exercise in Greenland and is awaiting a response" https://t.co/OnQ4XFBln2
berlingske.dk
11 amerikanske kongresmedlemmer er i dag i København til drøftelser om Grønland i Folketinget. Få seneste nyt her.
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The madness continues. '“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” the president said at the White House on Friday.'
wsj.com
The president said the U.S. needs to take control of the territory to protect U.S. national security.
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Our interview w/ Reza Pahlavi. "His plan makes him a transitional leader...who would lead a temporary gov't. Iran should, he says, be a democracy. His plan promises a referendum w/in four months on restoring monarchy or setting up a parliamentary republic"
economist.com
Can the son of the shah deposed long ago rule Iran if the Islamic Republic falls?
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I wrote with @KanishkhK on Trump's 'Golden Fleet' concept: an unaffordable guided-missile cruiser masquerading as a 'battleship', a potentially seriously under-armed frigate and, much more likely to get built at scale, a fleet of uncrewed vessels.
economist.com
The president’s plan for a “Golden Fleet” does not add up
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Yet another US government equity stake was just announced, bringing the grand total to ELEVEN since mid-2025. Reminder: Prior to Trump, the US government hadn't taken a permanent, non-crisis investment in a healthy private company since at least the 1950s. Now we have 11.
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Military leaders for years have wanted more press releases and less independent news in Stars and Stripes. Unless Congress is willing to step up again and protect the editorial independence of this institution, this plan could turn the paper into nothing but DOD talking points.
"Fifty percent of the website’s content will be composed of War Department-generated materials, including digital or print materials made by War Department writers and images captured by combat cameras." https://t.co/yiz48Kcsnf
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Maria Machado left her Nobel Peace Prize at the White House for Trump to keep, a source familiar with the matter tells me. But she didn't leave empty-handed-- Getty photo shows her walking out with what appears to be a swag bag.
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More Americans support the acquisition of Greenland than Russians supported the unification of Ukraine and Russia in 2021 (about 17%): https://t.co/zJGjhUKeUu
An utter disgrace that millions of Americans actually express support for this annexation. The latest epsiode in a long history of national shame. https://t.co/ytg5naAyTI
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The State Dept is still on a crusade to show that the UK is an autocracy. Their poster child for this is a lady who called for setting fire to hotels housing asylum seekers and then, after her release, called for the abduction of the UK prime minister. Revealing choice.
The government has, indeed, repeatedly threatened to return Lucy to prison for benign political speech. It also blocked her from visiting the United States at our invitation. It’s also cancelling local elections, and curbing the right to a jury trial.
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To further expand on the previous passage, a more recent article that puts things in perspective: https://t.co/oCvvndLnz6
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Here an interesting article from 2007 that discusses the use of Suter by Israel (which Austin Long pointed out to me a couple of years ago). https://t.co/w0DJT0Isz3
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