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“The Pentagon has suspended participation in all think tank and research events until further notice”, according to this piece.

“It’s like a seafood market,” said one distributor, “There’s no shortage.” Good FT piece on China getting its hands on US chips. ft.com/content/6f806f…

Safe to say… SAFE is on track.

From the USA’s new Artificial Intelligence action plan… how the Federal Government seeks to help with the adoption of AI in the DoD. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… #AI #Defence

President Trump wants Europeans to buy American cars and import American-made food… I can understand why, but tariffs cannot touch the hearts and minds of people. One cannot simply re-wire culture and taste…

5% + 15%

“The Rape of Europa” 1560-1562, Titian

Trade and military power go together!!! You cannot be an economic power without military power. Europe has fooled itself (with help from others) into thinking you can have one without the other. European nations do not want this reality. Let’s not fool ourselves.

The “Daddy” of all deals?

A lot of Europeans tonight… “I love the Europe we could be, I hate the Europe we are!”

“Veni, vidi, vici” (Daddy, 27 July 2025) Fine work #TeamEurope. Now we can all enjoy the summer holidays can’t we…

POV: me, listening to the 2025 SOTEU whenever I hear the words “European sovereignty” or “strategic autonomy”.

We’ve been here before in the EU with this whole “stability at all costs” ethos… it didn’t work in the past and it will not work in the future. Europe is like the frog in warm water…

Europe was designed to be free, yet everywhere it is in chains…

I will say… for the past few months we’ve been cooking up a special issue in an academic journal on the EU in US-China competition, with a focus on autonomy, wedging and hedging. Given the events of this week in trade, I really cannot wait to share the full schedule of papers!

“Military Equipment: The European Union agreed to purchase significant amounts of U.S. military equipment.” Plus ça change, plus c'est la même… whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…