Kennan’sGhost @KennansGhost

“The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas.” Joined August 2021

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2 weeks ago

@DavidCornDC The Dunning-Kruger presidency.

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2 weeks ago

@AnnieJacobsen Plans drawn in peace assume a continuity of will that catastrophe itself extinguishes.

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2 weeks ago

@WashProbs Kennedy Center programming is the closest thing DC has to a cultural amenity that manages to clear market rates for quality.

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@atrupar The gap between Trump’s public trust in Xi and Putin’s assurances, and Hegseth’s acknowledgment that both countries are enabling Iran “at different levels”, is exactly the kind of space history has punished before.

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3 weeks ago

@Polymarket The goal stays fixed, everything else becomes negotiable.

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3 weeks ago

@DanLamothe @Tmgneff Empires and bureaucracies rarely conduct honest autopsies.

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a month ago

@IAPonomarenko The meat grinder of the Great War destroyed the Romanovs and birthed something far worse.

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a month ago

@sranysovok This is the soil in which both autocracy and revolutionary certainty take root, only for reality to upend them both.

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a month ago

@NBCNews A great power does not strengthen itself by scattering its resources across every desert and strait. The Persian Gulf is not a theater upon which the survival of American power depends.

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2 months ago

“Kennan was an admirer of the 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon, and he voraciously read the ‘History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ on his regular trips across the Atlantic. Gibbon’s demythologizing idea of empire informed Kennan’s own doubts about the modern American empire’s supremacy.“ Matthew Andersen November 21, 2023 providencemag.com/2023/11/george…

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2 months ago

@sentdefender Iran’s timing tied to a president’s milestone moment, just like January ‘81.

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2 months ago

@thunderican @realmikolson @ConceptualJames Shocking. He was vetted for deception capability, operated without normal accountability, and likely internalized ‘the ends justify’ ethics.

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2 months ago

@nancyayoussef Perhaps a burn pit that never quite goes out.

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2 months ago

@LauraLoomer States have interests, not friends.

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3 months ago

“Acheson had arrived in time for as tumultuous a tour as any secretary of state ever endured, perhaps the single most difficult four-year stretch in the country's history in terms of its foreign policy. Even as he was taking office, Chiang's government was collapsing on the mainland, and the Generalissimo himself was fleeing to Taiwan. (Acheson was sworn in on the very day that Chiang left China for his new island home. "We passed, I coming in, Chiang going out," Acheson later noted with mordant humor.) Things got even worse that fall. Within the space of a few weeks the Soviets tested their first atomic weapon and the Chinese Communists took power in Beijing, announcing the creation of their new government, anathema to a vast segment of the American populace. Both of these events not only signaled a changing global security balance but sent psychological shock waves through the American political system. The United States was no longer the only member of the atomic club, and at virtually the same time, China, a beloved country to millions of Americans because of the missionary outreach programs there, the country that was supposed to be our great ally in Asia, had gone Communist.” “The Coldest Winter” by David Halberstam

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3 months ago

@BohuslavskaKate The regime demands that its servants project an image of mastery. Actual mastery is secondary and often dangerous, for it invites suspicion from above.

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3 months ago

@joekent16jan19 The real longterm challenges lie elsewhere.

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3 months ago

@Empty_America They're navigating a messy but survivable second term with typical midterm pressure. Likely positioning for the next cycle.

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3 months ago

@officialrnintel America's exceptionalism was always about its founding principles. Our exceptionalism is fading and the great experiment is at risk of irreversible decline.