Aleksandar Matovski
@A_Matovski
Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. Author of “Popular Dictatorships” @CambridgeUP. All views are my own and not USG/DoD policy.
Lots of unhappiness in Russia as Azerbaijan president Aliev accepts a gift of shoulder patches of Ukrainian army brigades from a Ukrainian journalist and tells her: “Continue on the same path.”
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I asked China’s DeepSeek AI app, which is number one in the App Store today, to criticize Xi Jinping and criticize President Trump. Here’s what I got:
Fear levels rise among the Russian elite en.thebell.io/fear-levels-ri…
My concerns regarding sending more Patriot interceptors to Ukraine are well-known. However, Trump has made clear he wants to provide Ukraine with more air defense assets. With that in mind, I think the best place to get them from with the least amount of trade offs against U.S.…
1/@EpochAIResearch doubles down on preiction AI will drive 20%+ annual GDP growth. Economists remain skeptical. This is the defining debate of today: AI builders see infinite prosperity ahead. Economists see the same limits that constrained every technological revolution.🧵 1/13
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How to treat Russians. Jedini način sa Rusima. Tito & Hruschov 1956.
Today’s events began in 1979 and 9/11. Two states, two ambitions to remake the Middle East. It didn’t have to get to this point but the grooves guiding the conflict were dug deep, and the political will to abandon those paths was never sufficient in the moments that mattered.
The regional status quo that Iran established over the past three decades is finished—and it is now clear that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have lost their decades-long conflict with Israel, argues @AOstovar. foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/ho…
Ali Khamenei and the IRGC have lost; the regional status quo they established is finished. — My latest in @ForeignAffairs foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/ho…
Last year Iran limited its strikes against Israel on military bases to avoid an escalatory cycle. Those strikes weren’t effective. If Israel attacked civilian sites, that could compel Iran to abandon caution and respond in kind—a tactical shift that would be far more deadly
Different residential buildings targeted in #Tehran, #Iran.
This is grim. Iran’s leadership will have little incentive to hold back in its retaliation
Videos I'm getting from Tehran of attacks. 1:
NEWS: @csis_ai expert @Gregory_C_Allen joined @BloombergTV to discuss why Chinese AI company DeepSeek is disrupting tech markets. Watch:
From our new issue: "From Social Networks to Political Parties: Indigenous Party-Building in Bolivia" by Mariana Giusti-Rodríguez (@MarianaGiustiR). #ASPRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…