https://open.spotify.com/track/0dZiD65nVUS5eeuowSpmNo?si=e802fc9d547a40cd

What a great earworm!

Have Me (If You Want Me Too)
Ferry Corsten, SUPERSTRINGS

A blog entry for a game-theory class, attempting to model the US-Russia-Ukraine interaction:

https://epicurianoffshoots.blogspot.com/2025/03/using-game-theory-to-analyse-current-us.html

"How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
The region has had its bleakest week since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The implications have yet to sink in"

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/20/how-europe-must-respond-as-trump-and-putin-smash-the-post-war-order

Who will now stabilise the world economy?

"We have two competing superpowers, the US and China. Both fancy themselves as hegemons; neither is willing to accept the responsibilities of the role. The US vows vengeance on anybody who threatens the primacy of the dollar even as its own actions put that primacy in doubt. China rails against its lack of status in the current economic system, even as it plays a prime role in destabilising it."

https://on.ft.com/3Qr8WOK

Trump, Putin, Xi and the new age of empire

A very bleak assessment of our new realities, by FT's Gideon Rachman.

https://on.ft.com/3WVg89o

From FT's Janan Ganesh: "The US at its peak had more going for it than overwhelming strength. It had a certain amount of predictability. Without either, its purchase on events can’t be the same."

US foreign policy is too volatile to lead the world: The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in America’s heyday

https://on.ft.com/3U0kb2C

Какво се случи с ПП-ДБ и защо изгубиха толкова много гласове

https://www.dw.com/bg/kakvo-se-sluci-s-ppdb-i-zaso-izgubiha-tolkova-mnogo-glasove/a-69340188