Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦 ✓
@bctallis · Berlin, Deutschland · joined 25 Mar 2009
Thought Leadership for Helsing -AI to Protect Our Democracies | Sanctioned by Russia |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #NeoIdealism | T=personal, RT ≠ endorse. Views mine
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It’s true that drones are not everything. But drones are not going anywhere.
If we can’t integrate them at scale with our existing capabilities, then the form of warfare we want to fight will die alongside our soldiers.
Brig Stu Nasse, a brilliant speaker with a powerful https:
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Great to be back in #Prague for the IISS Prague Defence Summit - & to find such great content! Happy to see @HelsingAI ’s HX-2, CA-1 & Centaur & RX-1 strongly featured in the Strategic Dossier.
However, to defend Europe in this new era we need to lean into this tech to turn our
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‘What we do for Ukraine we do in weeks and months. What we do at home we still do in years and decades.’
🇸🇪 Defence Minister @PlJonson nails the need to scale the speed of procurement and transformation in European defence.
#IISS_PDS26 https://t.co/MGPssmJwc6
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@bctallis Correct they are the generation that screwed it up. They won’t be the generation that’s to pay the butchers bill.
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@bctallis it worries me being a briton that I don't feel safe in my own country any more and the Russians can come on picnics in our waters
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@bctallis With what money, Ben? Their current defense budget makes Enron's accounting look legitimate.
The UK can't deter Russia with money that doesn't exist, and never will for the next decade (or more).
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“It worries me that we will be seen as the generation that screwed it up”
- It was inspiring to hear UK CGS Gen. Sir Roly Walker (Head of the British Army) talk so candidly this week about his absolute determination to accelerate defence transformation to ensure deterrence. http
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@bctallis Ok, let me challenge you a bit for theory's sake 😉
1. What is the new in the new idealism? Historical sequencing, or actually innovates over idealism?
2. Ideas matter. IR liberalism, constructivism, neofunctionalism, all agree. where do you innovate/depart from each of
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The Neo-Idealists see that without the means to defend itself, including military capabilities, no liberal order can survive. But, without a defensible moral core or the hope of progress, it cannot thrive.
Find out more in the book - & forthcoming🧵s
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#NeoIdealism is also very different - & opposed to any approaches prioritise 'Great Power Politics' & thus trample on the agency of smaller states & undermine liberal ordering.
24/25
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Their new, hard-edged idealism stands in stark contrast to nativist populism as well as to 'Realism' & some other approaches to IR (see next🧵). Focus on the future & progressive change sets them apart from those who seem stuck in the recent past.
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23/25
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There are costs to this approach - but the Neo-Idealists are clear that they know the price of freedom & are willing to pay it. Even if liberal values have been imperfectly upheld in their countries in the past, they are not only worth defending but striving to renew.
22/25
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So #NeoIdealism is not limited to supporting #Ukraine, to European Affairs, nor to CEE - as @MarinSanna's famous statement on how #Russia can end the war showed
- as did her position on #China
20/25
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All links to quotes are in the book - but some also in this piece - incl. @JanLipavsky expressing support for Taiwan as “ bullied by #China. Part of our government’s vision is that democracies in the world should hold together – & 🇹🇼is a democracy."
19/25
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As @pabriks put it in Berlin:
“We are ready to die for freedom. Are you?
& @JanLipavsky: "moral responsibility” to help
🇺🇦s who “want to be part of Western society, want democratic elections, freedom of speech & the prosperity that comes with them.”
18/25
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This contrasts with the values others use to justify their countries’ strong material support to #Ukraine. e.g. @kajakallas' powerful speech in Berlin or check out the twitter feeds of @GLandsbergis @edgarsrinkevics & @Pabriks [links in book]
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17/25
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🇵🇱has taken the most refugees of all & sent even more heavy weapons than other CEE states - but its PiS govt is avowedly not Neo-Idealist. It's approach is grounded in defence of PL interest but not a liberal vision (& it has itself attacked liberal rights & freedoms).
16/25
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CEE leaders & @vonderleyen also spearheaded the drive to endorse Ukraine's candidacy for EU membership
- yet not all CEE responses to the war can be categorised at Neo-Idealist:eg🇭🇺 has taken in refugees but has indulged 🇷🇺 & undermines lib-democ.
15/25
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#CEE states have been in the vanguard of European responses to #Russia’s assault on #Ukraine. They have committed staggering proportions of GDP & defence spending to (military) assistance & led the way in supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons
14/25
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Arguing that🇺🇦's fight is just one front in a wider struggle for democracy over tyranny, freedom over oppression, self-determination over imperial subjugation, @ZelenskyyUa convinced people around the 🌍 that #Ukraine’s fight is their fight too.
https://t.co/X1vmE939wW
12/25
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This ‘Zelenskiy Effect’ immediately gained traction in #CEE, where the principles and stakes of #NeoIdealism were intuitively understood, resonated with historical experience & triggered the reawakening of dormant forms of politics. 13/25
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🇺🇦s have appealed to parliaments, leaders & peoples across the West to help their country. They have encouraged people & politicians to relive the heroic moments of their history
- & confronted them with examples of where they have failed to live up to their ideals.
11/25
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This is what @davidfrum brilliantly pointed to in his analysis of the speech, arguing that Ukraine has 'recalled us to ourselves' - to what we can be at our best & why we should try anew to be that.
9/25
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Neo-Idealists argue that to maximise democracies’ competitive advantage & prevail in the systemic competition, we need to renew, invest in & struggle to uphold democratic rights & freedoms - & fight to defend them when they are threatened.
10/25
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Too often, we in democratic societies have doubted ourselves and our systems. #Ukraine's fight & the bravery of its people have reminded us why freedom, democracy & rights are worth dying for.
- & Putin's #Russia reminds us very clearly of the alternative.
8/25
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President @ZelenskyyUa's historic speech to Congress in December was interesting in this regard.
"🇺🇦courage & 🇺🇸resolve guarantee the future of our common freedom, the freedom of people who stand for their values."
6/25
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Zelenskyy emphasised that "our struggle will define in what world our children & grandchildren will live [&] whether it will be democra[tic]."
These ideals don’t come for free & are under threat from competition between autocracies & democracies. (which doubt themselves)
7/25
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#NeoIdealism is founded on the power of values conceived as ideals to strive for: human rights & fundamental freedoms, democratic governance, liberal societies &, perhaps most importantly, the right of citizens in those societies to a hopeful future.
4/25
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Crucially, the new idealists see the struggle for these ideals, & making progress toward them, as an interest in itself - one which aids the pursuit of their societies’ other interests with regard to both security & prosperity.
In #NeoIdealism our values are our interests.
5/25
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#NeoIdealism is a morally based approach to the geopolitical pursuit of interests that emphasises all democratic states, including smaller states' rights to self-determination - e.g. in joining spheres of Integration (EU, NATO) & rejecting spheres of influence (🇷🇺 empire)
3/25
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Against accounts of the same size
7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.
Median views791this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.91%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.86%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 791 | 924 | 0.86× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.91% | 3.62% | 0.53× |
| Engagement rate | 1.86% | 1.52% | 1.23× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes87.4%13 093 in total
Reposts8.6%1 284 in total
Replies1.6%236 in total
Quotes0.8%123 in total
Bookmarks1.6%245 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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