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Yuval Steuer
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It's truly remarkable that Bukele is inspiring this kind of hope among people in Haiti.
Like, really think about it.
Haiti is a country that became independent more than 200 years ago, and since then has been through dictatorships, coups, foreign interventions, earthquakes, presidential assassinations and now gangs controlling much of its capital.
Things have become so desperate that people are looking to the president of another country as their hope for a better future. They're chanting his name, hoping he can finally give them the kind of security he gave people in El Salvador.
It's extraordinary that Bukele has come to represent that kind of hope even beyond El Salvador.
The modern philosopher king.
Like, really think about it.
Haiti is a country that became independent more than 200 years ago, and since then has been through dictatorships, coups, foreign interventions, earthquakes, presidential assassinations and now gangs controlling much of its capital.
Things have become so desperate that people are looking to the president of another country as their hope for a better future. They're chanting his name, hoping he can finally give them the kind of security he gave people in El Salvador.
It's extraordinary that Bukele has come to represent that kind of hope even beyond El Salvador.
The modern philosopher king.
They Haitians are our in the streets chanting Bukele’s name.
They have regained hope of a better futureView quoted post on X
Many people disagree with Sunak, but he's pointing to something we should be talking more about.
If we want young people to love their country and be willing to serve it, we need to ask where that sense of belonging actually comes from.
National service doesn't necessarily mean sending them to war.
It could mean spending a year helping in hospitals, caring for the elderly, responding to emergencies, or working in communities completely different from the one you grew up in.
When you work alongside people you would otherwise never meet, you hear their stories and share your own. Strangers from your own country can start to feel like your people.
We should spend less time telling young people they should care about their country, and more time giving them opportunities to feel part of it.
The idea itself is worth taking seriously
If we want young people to love their country and be willing to serve it, we need to ask where that sense of belonging actually comes from.
National service doesn't necessarily mean sending them to war.
It could mean spending a year helping in hospitals, caring for the elderly, responding to emergencies, or working in communities completely different from the one you grew up in.
When you work alongside people you would otherwise never meet, you hear their stories and share your own. Strangers from your own country can start to feel like your people.
We should spend less time telling young people they should care about their country, and more time giving them opportunities to feel part of it.
The idea itself is worth taking seriously
Some political ideas age better than others.View quoted post on X
When I proposed a new model of national service in the 2024 election, it quickly became the butt of jokes. Now France and Germany are taking steps towards it, and in Sweden places are highly prized by teenagers and employers alike.
What I’d seen as prime minister – the constant probing by our enemies, which didn’t distinguish between civilian and military – had convinced me we would soon need some kind of resilience corps. The cyberattacks on European supermarkets, with fridges remotely set to 50C so the food spoils, show this is our new reality. Defence spending won’t stop that. Responsibility for our security can’t just be subcontracted to the military.
In a world in which the government feels obliged to tell us to stockpile tinned goods, our culture needs to change. It will take more than well-stocked cupboards to meet this moment.
A new, universal national service scheme should offer people options. A few might join a small, selective military cadre. Others could serve with search and rescue, St John Ambulance or Meals on Wheels, or train in cybersecurity.
It would make us more resilient and more cohesive, give the almost one million young people not in education, employment or training a sense of purpose, and remind us all that citizenship brings responsibilities as well as rights.
My @thetimes column today 👇 thetimes.com/comment/column…
Coordinated foreign psyops using fabricated news reports to turn an already angry population against itself.
And with AI, this will only get cheaper and harder to detect.
We need much better tools to expose it, without treating ordinary political criticism as a threat.
And with AI, this will only get cheaper and harder to detect.
We need much better tools to expose it, without treating ordinary political criticism as a threat.
Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters reut.rs/3UMHXCWView quoted post on X
The fact that people are willing to celebrate political murder so openly, while others actually applaud them, is something we should all be worried about. That's a clear sign that the values that made liberal democracy possible are eroding.
Anyone who believes in liberal values should be appalled by this, no matter how much they disagree with the person who was murdered.
Of course people have the right to say these things, no matter how disgusting. Freedom of speech has to protect the things we hate as much as the things we agree with, and I don't want the government deciding which opinions are too vile to express.
But we should absolutely condemn these celebrations.
Think about what we're actually talking about. Someone gets murdered for his political beliefs, and other people see that as something worth celebrating.
The entire point of liberal democracy is that we can disagree, argue, and have completely different ideas about the world without having to fear violence.
And if enough people start believing that murdering their political opponents is something worth celebrating, eventually others will become afraid of expressing what they believe.
You can have freedom of speech protected by every law imaginable, but what good is that freedom if people are afraid of exercising it?
That's why downplaying political violence is so dangerous.
Anyone who believes in liberal values should be appalled by this, no matter how much they disagree with the person who was murdered.
Of course people have the right to say these things, no matter how disgusting. Freedom of speech has to protect the things we hate as much as the things we agree with, and I don't want the government deciding which opinions are too vile to express.
But we should absolutely condemn these celebrations.
Think about what we're actually talking about. Someone gets murdered for his political beliefs, and other people see that as something worth celebrating.
The entire point of liberal democracy is that we can disagree, argue, and have completely different ideas about the world without having to fear violence.
And if enough people start believing that murdering their political opponents is something worth celebrating, eventually others will become afraid of expressing what they believe.
You can have freedom of speech protected by every law imaginable, but what good is that freedom if people are afraid of exercising it?
That's why downplaying political violence is so dangerous.
Downplaying political violence will lead America to a very dark placeView quoted post on X
