Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> </p><p>When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Talks About <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>, He’s Talking About <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> </p><p>Trump has made his fixation on Greenland abundantly clear—enough so to unnerve many of the people who live there.…. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> is traveling there today…. As part of the trip, *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>* Adviser <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeWaltz</span></a> [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/signalgate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalgate</span></a>] & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChrisWright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisWright</span></a> were scheduled to visit a US military base; Greenland’s PM, Mute B. Egede, called the visit a “provocation.”…</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USExpansionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USExpansionism</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/climate-change-arctic-greenland-trump-military/682225/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcTCijaCBUWvBFad8q8zBQ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/science/archiv</span><span class="invisible">e/2025/03/climate-change-arctic-greenland-trump-military/682225/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcTCijaCBUWvBFad8q8zBQ0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</span></a></p>
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Kim Perales<p>🚨"The worst thing that the fed govt has done to labor <a href="https://toad.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unions</span></a> in my lifetime: Trump signed an EO saying that the govt will no longer recognize & bargain with a huge portion of the unions that rep fed WKRs: VA, St Dept, DOE, EPA, TSY, DOJ... To justify the move -said: agencies are involved in <a href="https://toad.social/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a> -FICTION.</p><p>There're >1M union members working in the fed govt, EO: targets most of them. They don’t give a fuck. This isn't about law. This is about power."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-going-to-take-everything" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g</span><span class="invisible">oing-to-take-everything</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>This is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new admin that are squandering America’s strength & threatening our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>. Firing hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a> charged w/protecting our nation’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> weapons is also <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dumb</span></a>. So is shutting down efforts to fight <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemics</span></a> just as a deadly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ebola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ebola</span></a> outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats & spies at a time when rivals like China & Russia are trying to expand their…reach.</p>
Tadonic the Flautulent<p>The Atlantic releases the Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against the Houthis<br><a href="https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/the-atlantic-releases-the-signal-chat-showing-hegseths-detailed-attack-plans-against-the-houthis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ap.org/news-highlights/spotlig</span><span class="invisible">hts/2025/the-atlantic-releases-the-signal-chat-showing-hegseths-detailed-attack-plans-against-the-houthis/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/breach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LockThemUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LockThemUp</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s instructions to his team late this week remained to attack <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyGoldberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffreyGoldberg</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a>, & not “produce a scalp” by firing any members of his Cabinet, in the words of one outside adviser consulted by the White House who described the discussions to us.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/</span></a></p>
The Conversation U.S.<p>Ecological disruptions can cause social and political instability, economic strife, and strained international relations. Scholars explain how these crises impact <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a>: <a href="https://buff.ly/CXbn2QA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/CXbn2QA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a></p>
nemo™ 🇺🇦<p>Experts say Signal is as secure as messaging gets, but is it safe for national security? 🤔🔒 Read more about why it's not recommended for sensitive government communications: <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/signal-safe-as-messaging-gets-but-not-for-national-security/105093006" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/sig</span><span class="invisible">nal-safe-as-messaging-gets-but-not-for-national-security/105093006</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SignalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MessagingApps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MessagingApps</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/newz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newz</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“It’s so beyond what I would expect from anyone in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a>,” said Commander Kuldau, who also flew combat missions in the Middle East. “The idea that the secretary of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a>, who should know better, has done this, is just mind-boggling.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(8/8) </p><p>... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that 👉it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself;👈 it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."</p><p>primary source: <br><a href="https://fee.org/articles/mercantilism-was-monarchys-planned-economy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fee.org/articles/mercantilism-</span><span class="invisible">was-monarchys-planned-economy/</span></a></p><p>//</p>
Nonilex<p>A fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AirForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirForce</span></a> fighter pilot, Maj Anthony Bourke, added: “When you disclose operational security, people can get killed.” He said that “these things are not taken lightly. I have never met anybody in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> who does not know this.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoxNews</span></a> weekend host, served as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> infantryman.</p><p>Cmdr Parker Kuldau, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a> F/A18 pilot, called Hegseth’s disclosures, & subsequent response to them, “infuriating.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(7/n) </p><p>... of 👉economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/king" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>king</span></a>, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]👈."</p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a> as a System of Power</p><p>What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(6/n) </p><p>... historian <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EliHeckscher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EliHeckscher</span></a>) </p><p>Why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> espouses it, could easily be explained by the central element of this policy introduced in the late absolutist reign of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SunKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SunKing</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LouisXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouisXIV</span></a>:</p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a> as a Conception of Society</p><p>Mercantilism revealed a fairly uniform conception of general social phenomena in the field of economics, and this, too, reacted in many ways on the...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(5/n) </p><p>... commodities, was the theory of the danger from which economic policy was chiefly 👉to protect a country lay in having too many goods [imported from other countries].👈</p><p>Mercantilism as a Monetary System</p><p>The👉 connection between money and goods in the mercantilist conception of economics was represented in the balance of trade theory👈 … "</p><p>("Mercantilism (1935), Swedish economic..</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(4/n) </p><p>...commerce, and trade into directions different from how individuals in the market may have wanted to direct their own activities, the more it created incentives for “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smuggling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smuggling</span></a>” – <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMarkets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMarkets</span></a> – to get around the controls."👈 </p><p>The basics: </p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a> as a System of Protection</p><p>The attitude of mercantilism towards the means of supplying the wants of human beings, i.e., towards...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(3/n)</p><p>... of souvereign and autonomous states, while the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> will be impoverished by the economic fallout of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a>. They constitue a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilist</span></a> trade policy, which has historically been proven to be detrimental to its practitioners: it gives rise to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Smuggling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Smuggling</span></a> and anarchy:</p><p>"👉The more the government’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilist</span></a> policies attempted to restrict and divert manufacturing,...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(2/n) </p><p>... As of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a>"is historic speech at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSC</span></a> this year, 👉the necesities have changed, grown exponentially 👈:</p><p>The remaining 👉<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a> needs a deeper (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DefenseUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefenseUnion</span></a>) and wider union (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a>):👈</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114117715483122573" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1141</span><span class="invisible">17715483122573</span></a></p><p>Eventually, 👉a deeper union of tge West's states will further <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/West" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>West</span></a>👈, as the hegemony of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> is balanced by a "confederation"...</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snowshadow</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CdnPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercantilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mercantilism</span></a></p><p>(1/n) </p><p>While I agree with the spirit of your post, the timing for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> deal (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a>, if you are referring to that) predates the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> presidencies:</p><p>"... Officials announced the launch of negotiations on 6 May 2009 at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> Summit in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prague</span></a>...."</p><p>"...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JustinTrudeau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustinTrudeau</span></a>, Prime Minister of Canada, travelled to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a> on 30 October 2016 to sign..."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement?wprov=sfla1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehe</span><span class="invisible">nsive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement?wprov=sfla1</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Wednesday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> called his disclosure a “team update” to “provide updates in real time, general updates in real time” to keep <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> ofcls informed.</p><p>But details of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> operations are usually kept so secret that even the service members taking part in them are “locked down.” That sometimes means they are not allowed to speak to others who do not have a need to know, let alone tell people about the plans, the fighter pilots interviewed said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> added:</p><p>“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME).”</p><p>This text was two hours in advance of the strikes.</p><p>“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package).”</p><p>And then, “1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts — also first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”</p><p>That text gave almost three hours’ notice.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But then came <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>’s initial response to the disclosures. He attacked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyGoldberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeffreyGoldberg</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a> editor, as a “so-called journalist,” & sought refuge in a semantic argument, saying that he had never disclosed “war plans.”</p><p>So on Wed, The Atlantic published the actual text of what he had written.</p><p>Hegseth texted at 11:44AM the day of the attack: “1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”</p><p>30 minutes before it happened.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>
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