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Imagine a foreign language being pervasive in your country for no real reason whatsoever. The Uzbeks are right in wanting to rip it out.

https://thediplomat.com/2025/06/russian-without-russians-the-politics-of-language-in-uzbekistan/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Alper Cugun
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An idea this dumb could only come from one of two people in Germany (Höttges or Thelen). DOGE’s main aim is to burn down the entire government.

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A weird coincidence how a media campaign would lead to double digit billions in extra revenues for fossil fuel providers (and to worse outcomes for everybody wanting to heat their homes in Germany). Nothing behind this probably.

We liked to pretend that it was possible to use American cloud providers with any measure of sovereignty, but that pretence is going to drop very soon now. Not sure what the alternatives are, but everybody should be planning for some drastic changes here.