Steve Saideman

#CivMil relations; Director, @CdsnRcds; saideman.blogspot.com; Co-host, Battle Rhythm podcast cdsn-rcds.com/battlerhythm, International Relations professor. Used to study nationalism/ethnic conflict.
Joined July 2023
  • Nothing makes it clear how racist the massive deportation effort is than trying to expel those whose ancestors never immigrated. They are far more american than the rest of us.
    • The targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.
    View on BlueskyShow all post labels
  • I just used the example of Harvard at a roundtable on international relations at this moment--that Trump sucks at coercive diplomacy as he can't accept yes as an answer. He is always asking for more.
    • Trump is now demanding One Billion Dollars from Harvard, threatening criminal punishment, and insinuating Harvard’s president was chosen because of his religion (?)
    View on BlueskyShow all post labels
  • The Danes were willing to fight in one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan--Helmand. And, yes, they could have opted out--others did.
    • Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US
    View on BlueskyShow all post labels
An unhandled error has occurred. Reload 🗙