Senior correspondent at Foreign Policy. Author of Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future over to Wall Street..Newsweek, Politico Mag
Daily Beast notes that after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with Trump--in which he was photographed hovering over Trump in the Oval Office--"TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent.'’'
Some hard facts must be faced:
#Netanyahu
has spent his career denying
#Palestinians
any rights and prospects for statehood--even buiilding up
#Hamas
at the expense of the Palestinian Authority--while wooing the Arab states. Now it's blown up in his face:
@FareedZakaria
was one of the first to describe the conflict between
#China
and the
#USA
as a "Cold Peace" rather than "Cold War, and the evidence is he's still correct:
There is now substantial evidence that Boeing and the FAA were playing down the serious problems pilots were having with its automatic software on the 737 Max 8:
As we make peace with the
#Taliban
Taliban after 18 years of exhaustion, master strategist David Kilkullen compares Bush's diversion from the main task in Afghanistan to Hitler's decision to invade the USSR, which cost him WWII:
Surprising perspicacity from within the Washington media bubble: yes, indeed, Trump's 'shithole' comment was exactly what much of America thinks but won't say, and they like him for it:
The problem
#Biden
skeptics have with his
#NATOSummit
news conference is that he showed his mastery of foreign policy and, just btw, also delivered a powerful brief for his presidency in simple, clear terms:
#Biden
's
#economicrecoveryplan
didn't come out of nowhere. The inside story of how a 78-year-old 'transitional' president is upending the American economy:
It didn't end with the movie. Why haven't more people paid attention to this man for the past 50 years? The legendary Serpico speaks to
@ForeignPolicy
:
Want to know just how much the
#RepublicanParty
has become
#Trump
's party? It goes way beyond the polls--and way beyond
#Elections2024
. Inside the new Republican Revolution:
The new
#GPT
models in advanced
#intelligence
do more than threaten the educated class (in the way
#robotics
once threatened blue collar workers). They will also utterly transform geopolitics:
I cite
@BCAppelbaum
's excellent new book. The Economists' Hour, in this assessment of how America's mainstream economists helped lead to the rise of Trump:
FP ace Pentagon correspondent
@laraseligman
reports that the Syria withdrawal was only the final straw for Mattis. He'd been toying with resignation for months:
Despite the horrors of the
#Gaza
war, a diplomatic solution for
#Israel
may come from a strange place: the antipathy of the Arab states for the
#Palestinians
. So says one of America's most-experienced diplomats in the
#Mideast
:
#Kerry
tells me: “I don’t fly on the family jet. I fly commercially.” Kerry added that he and his family are trying to set a green example. “I drive an electric car. I use a solar field to power my house.”