Trump keeps criticizing electromagnetic catapults. Yet that is precisely the technology that China is using in its latest aircraft carrier to speed up aircraft launches. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

MAGA loyalists will go wherever Trump leads, and a lot of them actually seem to appreciate the discordant combination of Trump mediating conflicts while simultaneously saber-rattling, writes @maxboot.bsky.social.

The opinion states that drug cartels are selling drugs to finance a campaign of violence and extortion, according to four people. That assertion… runs counter to the conventional wisdom that traffickers use violence to protect their drug business. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Giving a nation’s leader legal immunity is a sign of democratic corrosion. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...

Wonder what JD Vance thinks of this?

Odds of Venezuela getting bombed just went up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“It is academically rigorous while still being highly readable and engaging, capturing the many complexities and contradictions of the late president.” One historian's reaction to my Reagan biography. Read the whole thing at H-Diplo. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

“I’ve talked to a number of my colleagues who said, ‘I’m so glad you did that, but I’m not I’m not going to vote with you,’” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) told The Washington Post’s Theodoric Meyer and a small group of reporters in a Monday interview. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's bizarre for a president who brags about all the wars he’s ended to suggest going “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria. Or, potentially, into Venezuela: Trump has now assembled the largest U.S. naval armada in the Caribbean since 1962, and he is blustering about toppling Maduro. wapo.st/49bKyew

In a significant blow to the Trump administration’s anti-narcotics operations in the region, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday he was revoking intelligence sharing with the United States while the boat strikes continued. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The great @maxboot is absolutely right. Trump’s foreign policy is erratic, unprincipled, amd completely devoid of any strategic vision. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump’s pronouncements are so often unexpected and disconnected from reality that they leave foreign policy scholars, and foreign leaders, bewildered. wapo.st/49bKyew

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

“We are not at war” with Russia, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said recently, “but we are no longer at peace either.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Ramesh Ponnuru: Congress and the president could decommission this useless but harmful weapon by agreeing on legislation to keep the government funded even when the parties can’t agree on spending bills. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

When conservatives shut down the government in 2013 over a foolhardy attempt to defund Obamacare, many Republicans who knew better went along because they were scared of angry activists. The exact same thing just happened to Dems, and it’s ending the same way. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

A president who is cutting foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries is committing $20 billion to rescue Argentina from its fiscal irresponsibility. This looks like an Argentina First foreign policy and it isn’t motivated by US national security interests. wapo.st/49bKyew

A president who is cutting foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries is committing $20 billion to rescue Argentina from its fiscal irresponsibility. This looks like an Argentina First foreign policy and it isn’t motivated by US national security interests. wapo.st/49bKyew

now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Trump’s pronouncements are so often unexpected and disconnected from reality that they leave foreign policy scholars, and foreign leaders, bewildered. wapo.st/49bKyew

"Trump’s pronouncements are so often unexpected and disconnected from reality that they leave foreign policy scholars, and foreign leaders, bewildered," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4p3JrlQ

Why threaten to attack Venezuela or Nigeria? Why vow to test nuclear weapons? Why bail out Argentina? It makes little sense, but the incoherence of Trump’s approach also doesn’t much matter, certainly not to most of his followers. wapo.st/49bKyew

Trump’s incoherence serves to keep the world off balance and to keep the spotlight on him. It’s mainly a problem for analysts who struggle to figure out what he’s up to and what he might do next. But, from his perspective, driving “elitists” and “globalists” bonkers is a bonus. wapo.st/49bKyew

Trump’s incoherence serves to keep the world off balance and to keep the spotlight on him. It’s mainly a problem for analysts who struggle to figure out what he’s up to and what he might do next. But, from his perspective, driving “elitists” and “globalists” bonkers is a bonus. wapo.st/49bKyew

Why threaten to attack Venezuela or Nigeria? Why vow to test nuclear weapons? Why bail out Argentina? It makes little sense, but the incoherence of Trump’s approach also doesn’t much matter, certainly not to most of his followers. wapo.st/49bKyew

It's bizarre for a president who brags about all the wars he’s ended to suggest going “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria. Or, potentially, into Venezuela: Trump has now assembled the largest U.S. naval armada in the Caribbean since 1962, and he is blustering about toppling Maduro. wapo.st/49bKyew

Trump seems to make decisions based on a whim, often driven by disinformation. There’s no “White genocide” in South Africa, for example, but Trump has cited that myth in making White Afrikaners virtually the only refugees he will admit. wapo.st/49bKyew

Any coherence imposed on Trump’s often self-contradictory approach is largely an artificial construct. Even the label Trump has adopted—“America First”—was suggested to him in 2016 by David Sanger; Trump didn’t think of it on his own and he certainly has not faithfully adhered to it. wapo.st/49bKyew

Is Trump a peacemaker or a warmonger? An interventionist or an isolationist? The answer is: yes. He contains multitudes, and it’s nearly impossible to sort out or explain the disparate strands of his foreign policy. wapo.st/49bKyew

Trump insists that U.S. strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment program this summer, but regional officials and analysts have become less convinced in the months since, and they warn another outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is only a matter of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

“Less than 48 hours earlier, U.S. officials said, Trump had been watching Fox News aboard Air Force One…” www.wsj.com/world/africa...

🎁 link: www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

I’m shocked the Kennedy Center hasn’t already been renamed the Trump Center. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

No U.S. officials will attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa this month, President Donald Trump said Friday, repeating his claim that White South Africans there are being murdered and oppressed — an allegation that lacks any evidence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Rodríguez, 30, is among the more than 600,000 Venezuelans who have, as of Friday, lost temporary protected status, or TPS — a designation that shielded them from deportation and allowed many to work and live in the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Some of the supposed “narco-terrorists” killed by the U.S. government. apnews.com/article/trum...

“..’There’s a baby in the back!’ an onlooker shouted. Minutes later, someone cried out, ‘They’re about to drive!’ “.. Another agent, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, got into the passenger seat ..” @nytimes.com #ICE www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

The fall of Pokrovsk does not mean the fall of Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, or Sloviansk. The war will continue with slow gains and massive Russian casualties. Ukraine makes Russia pay for every kilometer of ground. War of Attrition.

Some good insights here about authoritarian personalities, including Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court

The lawmaker who introduced the measure, Milenko Jovanov, said… the hotel project could curry favor with the Trump administration at a time Serbia is trying to maintain relations both with Moscow and the West. Trump has imposed a 35 percent tariff on Serbian imports. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/w...

The utter unpredictability of Mr. Hegseth’s moves, as described in interviews with 20 current and former military officials, has created an atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust that has forced senior officers to take sides and, at times, pitted them against one another. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

I’ve been inundated with what appears to be AI generated spam offering to help promote my books. Coming from “people” with wild, made-up names. One example below. Is anyone else getting this? Wonder what the point of this scam is?

Rubio and Hegseth provided a classified briefing for select members of Congress where they indicated that the administration is not currently preparing to target Venezuela directly and didn’t have a proper legal argument for doing so. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump admin's lawless killing spree continues. Another lethal strike in the Caribbean against a boat allegedly operated by an unidentified "designated terrorist organization." Fellow Americans: Do you want your government committing actions credibly described as crimes against humanity?

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Why is Trump politicizing the military? Ask the fired generals. By longtime friend and guest on America at a Crossroads, Max Boot. @maxboot.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

With a near daily assault on norms, laws, and professionalism, it’s difficult to address all issues. However, one place to start could be to call recently cashiered/retired-early general and flag officers in front of Congress under oath. @maxboot.bsky.social via WaPo 🎁 link wapo.st/4qzucT3