Niall Ferguson
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Niall Ferguson
@nfergus
International man of history, Flying Scotsman. Author, @HooverInst senior fellow, @TheFP and @thetimes columnist. Opinions my own.
- Replying to @JDVanceWell, thank God also for free and open debate. Having visited Ukraine every year but one since 2011, I think I have an informed and realistic view. I repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its failure to deter Putin in 2021 and failure to end the war while Ukraine
- "While the world fixates on Donald Trump’s populist cocktail of reciprocal tariffs and big, beautiful deficits, @JMilei is delivering a man-made miracle that should gladden the heart of every classical economist and quicken the pulse of all political libertarians." 1/5
- To my friends celebrating the release of the Israeli hostages today: It’s great. But please remember the 20-35,000 Ukrainian children who are still in Russian captivity. And all those who have been murdered by Putin’s fascist regime. It should be possible to support both IsraelOut of all chilling photos of Russia’s war against Ukraine, this one haunts me the most. July 2022. 🇺🇦 Kharkiv gets shelled once again. A father of a dead 13-year-old boy holds his hand and reads prayers. On that day, 🇷🇺 reported yet another “surgical strike on military targets”
- 'The phrase “luxury beliefs” was coined by the brilliant @robkhenderson to sum up the more preposterous ideas that progressives can afford to hold — “Defund the police!” “Open borders!” “Men can become women!” — because they are largely sheltered from the consequences when such
- I must be dreaming. It’s a dream, right?
- "This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August 5, 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a
- Everyone should read and ponder this letter. It says a lot about what the European Union aspires to be: the global regulator and censor-in-chief of the internet.
- The murder of @charliekirk11 is not only an odious crime. It is also a disaster for American politics. Of all the people offering leadership to today's young conservatives, he seemed to me by far the most thoughtful. When we met in May, his humanity and integrity impressed me
- "Not one of the 97 suspects we had gathered evidence against was charged with rape, and not one of the 26 young victims would see justice." Hard to read Maggie Oliver's testimony and not feel enraged that the cover-up of the pedophile rape gangs went on for so long.
- “Any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense will not stay great for very long. True of Habsburg Spain, true of ancien régime France, true of the Ottoman Empire, true of the British Empire, this law is about to be put to the test by the U.S. beginning this
- Excellent, hard-hitting analysis by @DouglasKMurray of how and why the Trump-supporting Right lost its way on the issue of Ukraine and ended up legitimizing Putin's war.
- I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. 1/13
