HeyJaredThe Peacemonger
Taking a realist view of international relations. Cutting through the pro-war groupthink. Former senior British diplomat, having served across most of the major crises since 911, including four and half years in Moscow, from 2014-2019.
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Austria’s former Foreign Minister: Europe Stopped Talking — Then Started Losing (opens the original)
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I had a discussion with Karin Kneissl who was Austria’s foreign minister from 2017 to 2019, while I was serving in Moscow. She now lives in a Russian village, teaches, rebuilds a house at 61, and looks after children who have no easy life. Austria tried to destroy her career though it failed to destroy her opinions on the state of European diplomacy. This conversation is about what Europe lost when it stopped talking to Russia<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn
McCarthyism wasn’t this bad: the repression of dissent in the face of failing wars (opens the original)
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We are told, almost daily, that Vladimir Putin is finished. Weak. Isolated. One more package of sanctions away from being overthrown by his own people. It has become the background music of European politics. I discussed the ongoing suppression of free debate in the western world Professor David Gibbs and he remarked that what we are experiencing today is far worse than McCarthyism<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!upyv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Should I Be Arrested for Promoting Peace? (opens the original)
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Jacob Rees-Mogg wants Britons to do their duty and show a stiff upper lip. But he has never served his country. I have and he wants to have people like me arrested because I talk about peace.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="720" src="https://su
No defeat! Russian voters back Putin (opens the original)
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United Russia took 57.7 percent in the State Duma elections. Before the count, Dr Matthew Blackburn sat down with me and put the number in a range: 55 to 60 percent. He was right.Matthew is at pains to point out that United Russia is not an ideological party. It is a receptacle that tries to synthesise Communist welfare, liberal modernisation, and anti-corruption concerns, within a centrist (by Russian standards) package the presidential administration can live with.<a class="image-link image2 i
Inside Britain’s failing Foreign Office, why have Ministers lost control? (opens the original)
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