Albert Pinto
@70sbachchan.bsky.social
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
When he's right he's right
Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."
Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."
December 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
When he's right he's right
Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."
Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."
We are going to win
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December 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
We are going to win
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the amount of attention europe on here is unbalanced. Japan and Korea’s response to the trump national security strategy is going to be explosive.
Read our Cold Peace and Van Jackson’s book the Pacific power paradox. @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Read our Cold Peace and Van Jackson’s book the Pacific power paradox. @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the amount of attention europe on here is unbalanced. Japan and Korea’s response to the trump national security strategy is going to be explosive.
Read our Cold Peace and Van Jackson’s book the Pacific power paradox. @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Read our Cold Peace and Van Jackson’s book the Pacific power paradox. @katemac.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
For our sins, why is he so evil and so funny
"FIFA peace prize" edition
"FIFA peace prize" edition
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For our sins, why is he so evil and so funny
"FIFA peace prize" edition
"FIFA peace prize" edition
RT @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
RT @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
"Whatever it may mean for policy, the new National Security Strategy makes history as the first one since the end of the Cold War to reject the grand strategy of primacy"
Agree with Stephen Wertheim. US wanted a weaker Europe and East Asian under grand strategy of Primacy, now wants them stronger
Agree with Stephen Wertheim. US wanted a weaker Europe and East Asian under grand strategy of Primacy, now wants them stronger
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Whatever it may mean for policy, the new National Security Strategy makes history as the first one since the end of the Cold War to reject the grand strategy of primacy"
Agree with Stephen Wertheim. US wanted a weaker Europe and East Asian under grand strategy of Primacy, now wants them stronger
Agree with Stephen Wertheim. US wanted a weaker Europe and East Asian under grand strategy of Primacy, now wants them stronger
"The most striking aspect to me is that China is NOT anymore defined as "the" primary threat, "most consequential challenge," "pacing threat," or similar formulations used in previous such documents.
It's clearly downgraded as a priority"
Trumps NSS 2025 is bfd.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
It's clearly downgraded as a priority"
Trumps NSS 2025 is bfd.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"The most striking aspect to me is that China is NOT anymore defined as "the" primary threat, "most consequential challenge," "pacing threat," or similar formulations used in previous such documents.
It's clearly downgraded as a priority"
Trumps NSS 2025 is bfd.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
It's clearly downgraded as a priority"
Trumps NSS 2025 is bfd.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
US National Security Strategy in Asia - get the Asians to front up the cash to deter China
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
US National Security Strategy in Asia - get the Asians to front up the cash to deter China
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
..."to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly their own capabilities to deter aggression"
"This is the clearest signal yet that the Trump team is negotiating a spheres of influence arrangement with China."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"This is the clearest signal yet that the Trump team is negotiating a spheres of influence arrangement with China."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"No doubt there will be great panic in Asia. Japanese proliferation seems like a done deal. But the more interesting response to watch will be in Korea and Taiwan. Here is the US for all practical purposes declaring the end of US protection.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"No doubt there will be great panic in Asia. Japanese proliferation seems like a done deal. But the more interesting response to watch will be in Korea and Taiwan. Here is the US for all practical purposes declaring the end of US protection.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
wow. i thought Trump Tariffs were reindustrializing america and that the over $500 billion dollars invested in the AI data center boom in 2025 were creating jobs....
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
wow. i thought Trump Tariffs were reindustrializing america and that the over $500 billion dollars invested in the AI data center boom in 2025 were creating jobs....
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
www.reuters.com/business/wor...
“Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept”
Oh. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept”
Oh. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
December 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept”
Oh. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept”
Oh. theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
Exactly!
"The governments in Mexico and South America have a very straightforward demand for the US to change its domestic policy to reduce violence abroad:
1 Stop selling the Guns made in the US and sold to cartels
2 Stop enormous cocaine demand that fuels cartels "
"The governments in Mexico and South America have a very straightforward demand for the US to change its domestic policy to reduce violence abroad:
1 Stop selling the Guns made in the US and sold to cartels
2 Stop enormous cocaine demand that fuels cartels "
December 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Exactly!
"The governments in Mexico and South America have a very straightforward demand for the US to change its domestic policy to reduce violence abroad:
1 Stop selling the Guns made in the US and sold to cartels
2 Stop enormous cocaine demand that fuels cartels "
"The governments in Mexico and South America have a very straightforward demand for the US to change its domestic policy to reduce violence abroad:
1 Stop selling the Guns made in the US and sold to cartels
2 Stop enormous cocaine demand that fuels cartels "
"Chamberlain’s policies of appeasement were a necessary stopgap that helped England prepare for war when it did eventually come — is one that has gained momentum with historians in recent years. Britain lacked powerful allies, a prepared military and, most of all, a committed and passionate public."
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Chamberlain’s policies of appeasement were a necessary stopgap that helped England prepare for war when it did eventually come — is one that has gained momentum with historians in recent years. Britain lacked powerful allies, a prepared military and, most of all, a committed and passionate public."
RIP Tom Stoppard “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
November 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
RIP Tom Stoppard “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.”
cant unsee
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
November 30, 2025 at 6:07 AM
cant unsee
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
trump
Reality versus AI
Reality versus AI
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
trump
Reality versus AI
Reality versus AI
marc trachtenburg dropped
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
marc trachtenburg dropped
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
Trump and Stephen Miller are incompatible with Western Civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trump and Stephen Miller are incompatible with Western Civilization
"China is making trade impossible"
Nice sub-heading in Robin Hardings piece that other countries are also facing:
"Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make"
www.ft.com/content/f294...
Nice sub-heading in Robin Hardings piece that other countries are also facing:
"Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make"
www.ft.com/content/f294...
November 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"China is making trade impossible"
Nice sub-heading in Robin Hardings piece that other countries are also facing:
"Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make"
www.ft.com/content/f294...
Nice sub-heading in Robin Hardings piece that other countries are also facing:
"Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make"
www.ft.com/content/f294...
Not every clean energy bet will pay off.
Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer: Our tool to assess capabilities and design green industrial strategy
C-ICE (we call it sea-ice) is here. www.netzeropolicylab.com
Read our @nzpolicylab.bsky.social policy brief: static1.squarespace.com/static/64ca7...
Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer: Our tool to assess capabilities and design green industrial strategy
C-ICE (we call it sea-ice) is here. www.netzeropolicylab.com
Read our @nzpolicylab.bsky.social policy brief: static1.squarespace.com/static/64ca7...
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Not every clean energy bet will pay off.
Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer: Our tool to assess capabilities and design green industrial strategy
C-ICE (we call it sea-ice) is here. www.netzeropolicylab.com
Read our @nzpolicylab.bsky.social policy brief: static1.squarespace.com/static/64ca7...
Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer: Our tool to assess capabilities and design green industrial strategy
C-ICE (we call it sea-ice) is here. www.netzeropolicylab.com
Read our @nzpolicylab.bsky.social policy brief: static1.squarespace.com/static/64ca7...
The “war on drugs” has been ongoing since the 1980s—the SOP has always been
Investigate
Intercept
Inspect
Incarcerate
Force was authorized to disable a vessel for boarding and inspection. Not for summary execution without evidence of wrongdoing. No trial. That’s just murder
- @aloft1961.bsky.social
Investigate
Intercept
Inspect
Incarcerate
Force was authorized to disable a vessel for boarding and inspection. Not for summary execution without evidence of wrongdoing. No trial. That’s just murder
- @aloft1961.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The “war on drugs” has been ongoing since the 1980s—the SOP has always been
Investigate
Intercept
Inspect
Incarcerate
Force was authorized to disable a vessel for boarding and inspection. Not for summary execution without evidence of wrongdoing. No trial. That’s just murder
- @aloft1961.bsky.social
Investigate
Intercept
Inspect
Incarcerate
Force was authorized to disable a vessel for boarding and inspection. Not for summary execution without evidence of wrongdoing. No trial. That’s just murder
- @aloft1961.bsky.social