Frederic Guarino 🌎♻️ Profile picture
dot connector, futurecasting, @peaceinnovation https://t.co/g0w79lEMBC🇫🇷🇨🇦based in MTL, lived 🇺🇸🇯🇵. On a Twitter sabbatical, mostly lurking
Sep 18, 2021 6 tweets 5 min read
48 hours after the #AUKUS announcement, it's surprising there's not more analysis/coverage of the REAL transformative deal, which has NOTHING to do re subs but about US deployment of forces in Oz. reuters.com/world/australi…

cc @marcaross

#Australia the #submarines deal is a small facet of a much larger shift towards a NATO-style linkup in the Indo-Pac region. When FR furor calms down, there's a high level of probability that FR&EU will be integrated to #AUKUS, FR is the natural partner given its presence in the region.
Sep 16, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read
I write #PerspectiveandContext on @SubstackInc and @Medium and will try and give both on the #AUKUS security announcement and the spillover negative effect of 🇦🇺reneging on its giant submarine contract with 🇫🇷.

For personal context: I was born in FR&now a dual FR CA citizen. Background: 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 cooperated closely during WW2 in New Caledonia and Noumea became the main rear naval base after Pearl Harbor. 182ndinfantry.org/defending-new-…

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Nov 16, 2018 39 tweets 18 min read
My 2 cts: Zuck’s stoicism is a huge weakness and he will act all surprised when the government regulates/breaks up fb >> Zuckerberg Refuses Responsibility for Facebook’s Latest, Greatest Scandal vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/m…? via @mekosoff Huge 🔥 from @PublicisGroupe - Zuck+Sandberg will start to become even more radioactive and government intervention will accelerate. Can someone send Zuck a history book re Standard Oil or does he refuse to see reality?
nytimes.com/2018/11/15/bus… #techlash
Jan 13, 2018 12 tweets 7 min read
#perspective 2018's first 12 days have been a rollercoaster of Trumpian reactive oxygen-sucking media cycles, ranging from the "i got a bigger nuke button" to @MichaelWolffNYC s Fire&Fury to the shithole controversy, to finish w/ Stormy Daniels 1/ Sober,rational analysts of our current feverish "moment" are few&far between- @RadioFreeTom @NoahCRothman @ianbremmer @umairh try to provide sustenance to who are interested in immediate&mid-long term consequences of the circus show started on the gold plated escalator in 2015 2/