Adrian Monck
@amonck
Weekly geopolitical intelligence • Former WEF MD
This is human life, real human life—no rest, no calm enjoyment of the scene, no generous gift of food and wine lavishly offered by the gods—the hard fist of necessity for ever battering man to a shapeless and hopeless fall.
It comes out as below standard. Read the detail and see why. It isn't perfect but it does raise most of the issues pretty clearly.
Having seen Mark Carney operate around the edges of WEF for 15 years I can only be grateful that decency and intelligence and realism still have a place in democratic public life. This is a speech that any Western leader could have given. You might be asking why yours didn’t…
Risks in the age of WhatsApp diplomacy. Trump attempts to humiliate Macron. Macron’s message reveals how easy it is to divide Europe – as if that needed saying – and that Russia is on the way back in.
The Telegraph gives voice to a range of views reflecting strands of the British establishment on Greenland. They foreground the peculiar British conviction that surrendering before you’re asked constitutes diplomatic cunning.
🇩🇰 Danish PM responds to US threats: “It makes absolutely no sense to talk about the need for the United States to take over Greenland… Denmark - and thus Greenland - is part of NATO and is therefore covered by the alliance's security guarantee.”
A writer becomes a day labourer and learns something about the fentanyl crisis… which is really, of course, a “no social safety net” crisis
Estonia’s spy chief on Russia and Europe re-arming: “Russia clearly sees value in … promot[ing] the idea that an arms race is pointless – that it diverts money away from other areas like social welfare and that, ultimately, it's harmful to Europe itself.
A senior US official shares a post mocking the Downing Street Chief of Staff. Britain’s public silence speaks volumes. 👇👇👇
