Archive - Lily Lynch

NATO Goes Dutch

Diary of the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague

12 hrs ago •

A New Familiar War

Israel attacks Iran. Weapons of mass destruction. Tactical nuclear weapons. Terrorist cults. Recycled war propaganda. Iran's Jewish minority.

Jun 19 •

Reading, Listening, Watching, Looking - June 9, 2025

Shenzhen. Ayahuasca. Wagner. Al-Qaeda. Istanbul 2.

Jun 9 •

The Californians

The New US Ambassador to Turkey. Humble Beginnings. Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Benign Orientalisms…

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Daytonification

The Dayton Peace Accords at 30. NATO's Parliamentary Assembly comes to Ohio. American and Balkan decline. Booz Hamilton. The Trump administration's new…

May 26 •

A Week of Frenzied Diplomatic Activity

In the cockpit of world events

May 22 •

Victory Day, 80 years since the defeat of Nazism

China's strength, Vucic's weakness, and the (mis)uses of WWII memory from Yugoslavia to Ukraine

May 9 •

On Collapsing Buildings

May 5 •

April 2025

Easter in Istanbul

Apr 21 •

January 2025

What I'll be Watching for in Trump2

Internal USAID war, Turkey, Syria, and the Balkans

Jan 23 •

December 2024

Escape from Freedom/Christmas on Corfu

Reflections on a year without a permanent address

Dec 26, 2024 •

November 2024

The Death of the "New Berlin" Treatment

As UK media has declared the the death of swaths of Belgrade and Berlin's nightlife, I look at the "New Berlin" as an ideological project

Nov 22, 2024 •

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