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Read this korrent: Maritime powers are the exception and continental powers the rule, and the whole difference is whether a country can defend itself at sea.
Maritime powers are the exception and continental powers the rule, and the whole difference is whether a country can defend itself at sea.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A continental power fights on its invader's timetable; for a maritime power, whether and when to intervene at all is a matter of strategy. — tap to centre the map on it
A continental power fights on its invader's timetable; for a maritime power, whether and when to intervene at all is a matter of strategy.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A maritime power must never take on a continental power's main force directly, and Britain broke that rule at great cost in the First World War. — tap to centre the map on it
A maritime power must never take on a continental power's main force directly, and Britain broke that rule at great cost in the First World War.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Land powers lose people by the million and maritime powers by the hundred thousand, and the reason is simply that the fighting happens at home. — tap to centre the map on it
Land powers lose people by the million and maritime powers by the hundred thousand, and the reason is simply that the fighting happens at home.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything. — tap to centre the map on it
The maritime order goes unappreciated because its objectives are negative: you can never prove you prevented anything.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The first rule of fighting a continental power is to keep your own economy growing, because that is the money that funds the military and the allies. — tap to centre the map on it
The first rule of fighting a continental power is to keep your own economy growing, because that is the money that funds the military and the allies.
Last stated 3 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Sarah Paine — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: 'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting. — tap to centre the map on it
'As long as it takes' lacks urgency, and it is a formula available to Ukraine's allies precisely because they are not the ones doing the fighting.
Last stated 11 months ago
10 Oct 2025
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Lawrence Freedman — holds since 2025-10-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible. — tap to centre the map on it
A ceasefire along the current lines would end the killing and still leave a long-term settlement between Russia and Ukraine possible.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
26 Aug 2026
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Branko Milanovic — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded. — tap to centre the map on it
A military that disconnects its orders from the law and from legal advice has no limit on what it will do when commanded.
Last stated 2 weeks ago
27 Aug 2026
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Scott Greenfield — holds since 2026-08-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted. — tap to centre the map on it
A nation of a million people cannot rule hundreds of millions by warfare; the Mongol Empire lasted because it offered its subjects things they actually wanted.
Last stated a year ago
31 Jul 2025
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Jack Weatherford — holds since 2025-07-31 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people. — tap to centre the map on it
A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Mar 2024
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Annie Jacobsen — holds since 2024-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: American ICBMs do not have the range to reach North Korea without flying over Russia, which is the flaw that turns a limited counterattack into Armageddon. — tap to centre the map on it
American ICBMs do not have the range to reach North Korea without flying over Russia, which is the flaw that turns a limited counterattack into Armageddon.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Mar 2024
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Annie Jacobsen — holds since 2024-03-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world. — tap to centre the map on it
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
18 Aug 2026
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
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Eric Berger — holds since 2026-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation. — tap to centre the map on it
A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation.
Last stated a year ago
13 Aug 2025
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Keyu Jin — holds since 2025-08-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade. — tap to centre the map on it
A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.
Last stated today
7 Sept 2026
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Paul Krugman — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
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