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Michael Shurkin
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Michael Shurkin
@MichaelShurkin
"Inégalable." Follow French and Euro security, Africa. Director of Global Programs at 14N Strategies; RUSI Associate Fellow. Army Dad. Opinions my own.
- I know you French people like to groan and moan about Macron, but watching him today... count your blessings.
- Only the French would build a combat jet capable of flirting.🇫🇷Dassault Rafale
00:00 - Lol. French people: "how dare you say something nice about our president!"
- Wait. Tariffs against the Marshall Islands? Aren't those US territory?
- I now have attended enough West Point parades to know the US Army can parade with the best of them. What we are seeing here is not an inability to do this with precision but a decision not to. Which is more interesting.Tous les voraces à Coët et les cadres de la Légion Étrangère hospitalisés après avoir vu ça
- I'm tired of this. Hamas slaughters Jews. Jews fight back. The world loses its shit. That's how I see this. Meanwhile, I've yet to hear anyone offer a real alternative to how to fight a force that literally operates among and under civilians, other than "do nothing."
- This morning a bunch of protestors came to my street to harass a Jewish neighbor, who works for the State Department, by camping out in front of the neighbor's home. Fucking Nazis.
00:00 - Someone needs to write a book about how Turkey developed a successful drone industry while Europe failed.#Turkish Bayraktar TB3 Drone with a wide range of weapons.
- 1. Fantastic interview in French with General Michel Yakovleff about the performance of the Russian military in Ukraine. Some highlights:#Podcast🎙️I Dans ce nouvel épisode du Collimateur, le général (2S) Yakovleff analyse les ressorts des contre-performances de l'armée russe en #Ukraine. ▶️À écouter ici : bit.ly/3son5Qy
- The French word for walkie-talkie is talkie-walkie. How the F did that happen?
- I can't stand this sort of nonsense. Yes, 🇫🇷 has/had gold mines. No, as far as I know, colonial 🇫🇷 did not engage in mining in #Mali, and if so at a small scale. Today's big gold mines in Mali are Canadian. Industrial mining only started in the 90s.
- French president's Concord over Djibouti, 1989. A dissertation could be written about this image. Title: "Modernism, Technology, and the Pursuit of Grandeur in Post-Colonial France."
