Has anyone written about the relationship between “restraint” in American and German foreign policy? Does it mean the same thing in both cases? Does US restraint require the abandonment of Germany’s “Kultur der Zurückhaltung”, or “culture of restraint”?

Some thoughts on groupthink among foreign policy elites aka the Blob - and why it might be an even more acute problem in Berlin than in Washington. theideasletter.substack.com/p/the-berlin-b…

Le phénomène Meloni illustre la compatibilité entre l’extrême droite et l’Union européenne. Revue Esprit esprit.presse.fr/article/hans-k…

'Die Regierung in Jerusalem ist dabei, sich in einen Paria der internationalen Gemeinschaft zu verwandeln, und sie zieht treue Verbündete wie die USA und Deutschland dabei mit.'

J'ai un essai sur l’extrême droite et l’UE dans le nouveau numéro d'Esprit. Revue Esprit esprit.presse.fr/article/hans-k…

Great comments here by Cas Mudde 👀 on how, although Giorgia Meloni 'has lived her whole life in a truly fascist subculture', people deny she is on the far right because she supports Ukraine, which has now become the proxy for being liberal democratic.' youtu.be/GnDgRj-_ERU?si…

'We saw burns so bad in some children that we knew they had no chance of survival... There was nowhere for them to die with dignity. So they were literally lying on the floor of the emergency department, dying.'

Nick Maynard on what he saw in Gaza.

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/health…

This was such a great discussion at Remarque Institute at NYU - especially Fred Moten's extraordinary response to Adam Shatz.