Andrew Stroehlein
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I am not really an expert in anything. However, I have some experience in dealing with experts. Over the last couple decades, I’ve been privileged to work closely with brilliant people in internationa...
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Symbols of the two regimes that killed the most Americans - now embraced by the Trump regime.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Symbols of the two regimes that killed the most Americans - now embraced by the Trump regime.
"The submissive attitude of European leaders before Trump is disgraceful. While even his own MAGA base now dares to oppose Donald Trump, and while TACO 🌮 is well known by now, Europe is still grovelling and taking orders."
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The US dictating European policies is nothing new, it was common practice for decades. But between Trump, Von der Leyen and EUCO it has been taken to a whole new level. Decision making has now… | Soph...
The US dictating European policies is nothing new, it was common practice for decades. But between Trump, Von der Leyen and EUCO it has been taken to a whole new level. Decision making has now effecti...
www.linkedin.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"The submissive attitude of European leaders before Trump is disgraceful. While even his own MAGA base now dares to oppose Donald Trump, and while TACO 🌮 is well known by now, Europe is still grovelling and taking orders."
www.linkedin.com/posts/sophie...
www.linkedin.com/posts/sophie...
I am 100% sure the problem is NOT rich, powerful people and politicians in government. No, it is absolutely those people who are so powerless they can't even vote.
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am 100% sure the problem is NOT rich, powerful people and politicians in government. No, it is absolutely those people who are so powerless they can't even vote.
Give the rampaging, imperialist, war criminal everything he wants. I'm sure that will stop him pushing his atrocities ever westward. 🙄
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US and Russian officials draft new peace plan based on capitulation from Ukraine
Unclear if Trump administration backs deal that would mean Kyiv giving up territory and slashing size of military
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Give the rampaging, imperialist, war criminal everything he wants. I'm sure that will stop him pushing his atrocities ever westward. 🙄
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
If Charlie Kirk had walked into a Saudi consulate and been hacked to pieces by Saudi agents on orders from Saudi leadership, I'm sure Trump would've just said the same thing: "things happen". Right?
Outrageous: Trump is willfully turning a blind eye to what U.S. intelligence agencies have determined about Khashoggi’s killing.
„Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
„Whether you like him, or didn’t like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Lauds Saudi Prince in Lavish Visit, Brushing Off Journalist’s Killing
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If Charlie Kirk had walked into a Saudi consulate and been hacked to pieces by Saudi agents on orders from Saudi leadership, I'm sure Trump would've just said the same thing: "things happen". Right?
Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children.
f24.my/BZLM
f24.my/BZLM
‘Their rights are being violated’: Ukrainian families call for return of their stolen children
Family members of Ukrainian children deported from Kherson by Russia made a rare public appeal for their return on Monday in Paris. Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Moscow has deported Ukra...
f24.my
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children.
f24.my/BZLM
f24.my/BZLM
After everything this government and the last one have done to make these people's lives as miserable as possible, some are caught expressing joy. How dare they!
Asylum seekers aren't crying and terrified all the time and that makes the Daily Express mad
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
After everything this government and the last one have done to make these people's lives as miserable as possible, some are caught expressing joy. How dare they!
Good article on just how different frontline warfare is in Russia's invasion of Ukraine today.
🚨🚨 "Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare
Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape." Excellent report by @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social. Brief 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/surv...
Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape." Excellent report by @nikamelkozerova.bsky.social. Brief 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/surv...
Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare
Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape.
www.politico.eu
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good article on just how different frontline warfare is in Russia's invasion of Ukraine today.
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The full Echo Chamber pod with the brilliant @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social - No One Cares About Sudan - is out now everywhere
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‘No One Cares About Sudan!’
Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 18/11/2025 · 27m
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November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The full Echo Chamber pod with the brilliant @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social - No One Cares About Sudan - is out now everywhere
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podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left!
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Desperate people forced to risk their lives to escape war and persecution - let's rob them of all they've got left!
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
This is the sick thinking of human traffickers, not decent governments.
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Eight new tortoise shack posts this week including @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on Sudan, @orla-hegarty.bsky.social on Housing, Ayat Abuhelal on Gaza and @philipoconnor.bsky.social on everything else
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November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Eight new tortoise shack posts this week including @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on Sudan, @orla-hegarty.bsky.social on Housing, Ayat Abuhelal on Gaza and @philipoconnor.bsky.social on everything else
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"In short, the EU’s climate legislation is being sacrificed at the altar of Trump appeasement."
Yesterday will mark a major turning point – the collapse of the European Parliament's decades-old centrist governing majority.
It's the end of an era, and the beginning of another.
It's the end of an era, and the beginning of another.
The EU Parliament now has a right-wing majority
President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP yesterday broke the centrist coalition, joining with the far right in order to pass the climate deregulation demanded by Trump.
davekeating.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"In short, the EU’s climate legislation is being sacrificed at the altar of Trump appeasement."
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
“We have observed with concern military operations in the Caribbean region because they disregard international law..."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Indeed. Put even more clearly, what the Trump regime is doing is murder:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Indeed. Put even more clearly, what the Trump regime is doing is murder:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
US strikes against boats in Caribbean ‘disregard international law’, French minister says
G7 foreign ministers questioned Marco Rubio about the attacks on what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“We have observed with concern military operations in the Caribbean region because they disregard international law..."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Indeed. Put even more clearly, what the Trump regime is doing is murder:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Indeed. Put even more clearly, what the Trump regime is doing is murder:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
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of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
of all the atrocities these emails likely allude to, it's still amazing that 'elites' write awful things *in emails*. so above the law, so convinced of their rectitude, so conditioned to impunity.
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BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump knew about the underage girls that Epstein was accused of victimizing, according to emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reut.rs/4hZV3nw
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‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
WTF? Anyone have more info?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
WTF? Anyone have more info?
Terrorizing citizens ain't cheap.
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
theintercept.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Terrorizing citizens ain't cheap.
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...
The US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. And masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The US political system is now essentially one fascist-promoting party, one fascist-appeasement party, and a few individual outliers, people called nasty names for suggesting policies every other industrialized country has had for decades. And masked thugs keep kidnapping people off the streets.
"UK no longer sharing intel with US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes & believes the attacks are illegal..."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"UK no longer sharing intel with US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes & believes the attacks are illegal..."
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Good.
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marin...
Imagine a social media platform merged with a Geoguesser-style thing... If you try to post about Country X or City Y, you first have to point to it on a map - and maybe answer 5 simple questions about its history, society, languages, cultures, etc. If you fail the test, your post is rejected.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Imagine a social media platform merged with a Geoguesser-style thing... If you try to post about Country X or City Y, you first have to point to it on a map - and maybe answer 5 simple questions about its history, society, languages, cultures, etc. If you fail the test, your post is rejected.
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Andrew kindly rejoined me on the Tortoise Shack earlier to discuss Sudan, human rights and why, despite appearances to the contrary, lots of people care. Read his piece below. Podcast out now on the tortoise shack.
It’s too easy – and too wrong – to dismiss the atrocity-ridden crisis in #Sudan by saying "no one cares".
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
I can assure you, lots of people care.
The problem is elsewhere.
Read more in the latest edition of my newsletter:
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/no-one-cares...
“No One Cares about Sudan”
It’s not easy to write about Sudan’s latest round of mass murder. And it’s hard to hear how some people dismiss it.
The recent fall of the city of El Fasher, following an 18-month siege, to the Rapid...
www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Andrew kindly rejoined me on the Tortoise Shack earlier to discuss Sudan, human rights and why, despite appearances to the contrary, lots of people care. Read his piece below. Podcast out now on the tortoise shack.
Reposted by Andrew Stroehlein
🌍 “The infrastructures we built after WWII still matter, they’ve kept the world from chaos.”
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🌍 “The infrastructures we built after WWII still matter, they’ve kept the world from chaos.”
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
@andrewstroehlein.bsky.social on why post-war institutions, from the UN to human rights frameworks, remain vital in 2025.
🎧 Watch The #ZNL Podcast → bit.ly/4oikeDU
The latest ball in Trump's tariff roulette seems to have landed on Italian pasta makers. Americans' loss.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves
The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The latest ball in Trump's tariff roulette seems to have landed on Italian pasta makers. Americans' loss.
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...