Ryan Evans
Founder, War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com) and Bedrock Knowledge (thebedrock.co). Opinions are my own. I'm not a journalist so please don't mistake me for one.
- Reposted by Ryan EvansThis is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
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- I discussed the planned transformation of the Army with the Secretary of the Army and Chief of Staff of the Army in the latest episode of @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/05/the-...
- I was joined by @massdara.bsky.social @michaelkofman.bsky.social to unpack how the Trump administration’s ambitious peace efforts have collided with reality warontherocks.com/2025/05/will...
- I was honored to have Gen (ret) David Berger, fmr Commandant of the Marine Corps on the @warontherocks.bsky.social pod. We talked about leadership during turbulence and Force Design warontherocks.com/2025/05/gen-...
- Hegseth has directed a sweeping transformation of the U.S. Army. Many details are in this memo that the department released this morning media.defense.gov/2025/May/01/...
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- Congrats anti-vaxxers
- ICYMI: My discussion with the Swedish Chief of Defense warontherocks.com/2025/04/the-...
- It was terrific having Gen. Michael Claesson, Swedish Chief of Defense, on the show @warontherocks.bsky.social Thank you to our friends at the Swedish embassy for putting this together warontherocks.com/2025/04/the-...
- "Almost immediately after those controls were implemented, Nvidia began designing chips that would come as close as possible to U.S. limits while still being legal to sell in China." www.usnews.com/news/top-new...
- I never met Gen. Jacoby but it was still a gut punch when I heard he passed away recently. He wrote one of the best articles we ever published, which we were honored to republish at Ryan Shaw's request today. warontherocks.com/2025/04/i-lo...
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- ::whispers:: it's actually pretty much the same with war powers, we just pretend that it's not
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- The United States has a trade surplus with Australia of about $20B. Australia is funding US submarine industrial base to the tune of billions, is a ally against China, & is a significant purchaser of US military equipment. Yet Australia will still, apparently, be hit with steel and aluminum tariffs.
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- I'm going to turn off replies to this one because too many of you will go mental but I applaud Prime Minister Tusk of Poland for his brave statement today on expanding the size of Poland's army and on nuclear weapons
- Latest episode of the pod. Going to be hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube after the Oval Office meeting with Zelensky warontherocks.com/2025/03/can-...
- As you all might imagine I have a lot to say about where US-Ukrainian relations have gone since the Oval Office meeting. Appreciate all the questions here, on X, and offline. I'll give my take on the podcast we are recording tomorrow
- All of these countries fought with us and lost people in Afghanistan UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Georgia, Romania, Netherlands, Turkey, Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Estonia, Hungary, Sweden 1/2
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- I started reading Vasily Grossman's 'Life and Fate' today. Enormously powerful
- Trump on Truth Social Translation: If Zelensky comes back and kisses the ring, the deal is still on the table and it builds up to something perhaps more meaningful
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- I know the narrative of this-was-an-ambush has already solidified on this app, but I'm not seeing evidence of that in the reporting coming out so far.
- This Guardian article offers a detailed breakdown of what the White House expected vs what Zelensky sought www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Good thread. Thanks Jon
- I listened to the latest @warontherocks.bsky.social podcast yesterday, on the “diplomatic” wrangling over Ukraine’s future: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w... It made stark the many parallels between these developments & the negotiations to end the war in #Afghanistan. A 🧵 on those. 1/n
- Thank you Judah. I appreciate it.
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- I don't know if there was a way to secure *reliable* support, but I do know that there was a constructive path forward and what Zelensky has done makes it far less likely that support will be forthcoming. I say this with sadness and as someone who wants Ukraine to win
- I've repeatedly voiced support for continued military aid to Ukraine and even expanded authorities. I criticized the Biden admin for withholding cluster munitions, criticized the Republicans for holding up the security package last year, etc. Putin is a war criminal. Zelensky screwed today up.
