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Josh Keating
@joshuakeating
Senior World Correspondent @voxdotcom Author of Invisible Countries [email protected]
Washington, D.C.
Joined September 2008
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    Periodic reminder that if you're interested in international politics, little-known history, off-the-beaten-path travel writing, and how we ended up with the world map we have today, you might like my book, Invisible Countries joshua-keating.com/invisible-coun…
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    The U.S. effort to arm Ukraine starts in an old steam engine factory in Scranton My latest for @gridnews grid.news/story/global/2…
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    Nobody should value my election analysis, but this whole "Republicans won't vote in Georgia because they think it's rigged" thing feels like something Democrats get very excited about but then turns out not to be real.
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    The U.S. is running out of excuses for not sharing its vaccines with the world
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    Sure, there's some awkwardness. But the virtual convention format feels more suited to a moment of national crisis than a stadium full of drunk delegates in funny hats
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    UAE, Iran, and Turkey all supplying drones to Ethiopia nytimes.com/2021/12/20/wor…
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    Guess it's fitting that the end result of a presidency premised on closing America's borders to foreigners is foreigners closing their borders to Americans
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    Why battle tanks are at the top of Ukraine's wish list right now. And why the U.S. and Germany are reluctant to send them grid.news/story/global/2…
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    Why the West won’t just give Ukraine all the weapons it wants all at once My latest for @gridnews grid.news/story/global/2…
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    Extremely excited to be starting a new position at @voxdotcom next month, where I'll be a senior correspondent covering "the most important global trends, and the ideas and dynamics that have shaped them."
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    "The U.S. War Department...initially placed a federal ban on the use and distribution of tear gas in domestic settings shortly after the war in 1919. " @aarontmak on how a weapon of war became a policing tool.
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    Some Trump defenders did a kind of "if it happened there" bit on the Mar-a-Lago raid, usually with the phrase "Banana Republic". But countries like France, Italy, Israel, Taiwan, and South Korea all prosecuted former leaders without descent into Bananadom
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    The Forever War comes home
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    War crimes are going to be part of Trump's reelection pitch