Now that Trump was passed over for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, here's some unsolicited advice for winning it in 2026. GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/46LygIb @opinion.bloomberg.com

Overconfidence and other cognitive biases are raising the risk of war GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/472fHhT @opinion.bloomberg.com

The problem with 'peace through strength,' America's friends and foes, and the growing risk of nuclear war ... in 7 short video clips www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @opinion.bloomberg.com

With his fixation on the Western Hemisphere, Trump is committing "superpower suicide"... GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/46vzdnO @opinion.bloomberg.com

President Trump stressed the idea of “peace through strength” in a speech to top generals. But the theory has some flaws, @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains 🎥

By confusing friends and foes, strategy and personal chemistry, posturing and resolve, the American president has made everyone less safe GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4gNX7hJ @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump’s hour-long speech at the UN missed a crucial point: The global body can only accomplish what its members support, @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains 🎥 Read the column: bit.ly/4nncG2s

The Trump administration views the UN as a useless, woke cesspool. Instead, it reflects the world as it is, assembled to save humanity from hell GIFT LINK: bit.ly/48tVgMP @opinion.bloomberg.com

Remember the Communist International? The Trump administration is trying to forge a “Popintern” — Populist International — with right-wing parties in democracies. GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/41V6mGP @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump keeps treating US allies like a landlord squeezing tenants for rent. @andreaskluth.bsky.social explains why they’ll never trust America again 🎥

Trump keeps treating the nation’s allies with such contempt that the consequences will be lasting and ugly GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/4mXdGtL @opinion.bloomberg.com

Sure, rename the Department of Defense. But then remember that war is hell and obliges leaders to have a strategy GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/46f9ezG @opinion.bloomberg.com

Bird’s-eye and worm’s-eye views suggest that the Trump administration has no plan for the Gaza Strip, except to let Netanyahu do whatever he wants GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/3HJUH6V @opinion.bloomberg.com

In an ideal world, the US would back Ukraine all the way. In this world, it could try to protect Ukraine as it has for decades helped Taiwan GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/3HCfd9w @opinion.bloomberg.com

As America keeps waging war on expertise in government, Russia, China and others must be doing cartwheels GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/468A0L2 @opinion.bloomberg.com

When a Reality TV star becomes president and turns everything - life, politics, war - into Reality TV, it looks like ... ... these Ukraine summits. GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/4mshrr9 @opinion.bloomberg.com

After long efforts to woo New Delhi as an ally against Beijing, Washington has suddenly veered toward hostility. It will regret the turn GIFT LINK: bit.ly/456K4Uu @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump didn't learn a lesson the late George Shultz passed on to Reagan: Never point your rifle if you're not willing to pull the trigger. GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4m3Kf99 @opinion.bloomberg.com

Russia, China and North Korea failed to help Iran when it was getting bombed by the US. And yet their four-way coalition lives on and will become more ominous GIFT LINK bloom.bg/3J0olF3 @opinion.bloomberg.com

In our brave new world, those thinking deeply about preventing nuclear war have no good answers and seem almost nostalgic for the Cold War GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/4kWNu0B @opinion.bloomberg.com

Any US “national defense strategy” is better than none at all. Too bad the one being drafted will seem naïve and won’t even be read in the Oval Office GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4lRVa5N @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump wants to be a 'peacemaker' and bag the Nobel Prize for it. Here's an interim assessment... GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/40wtLxy @opinion.bloomberg.com

Never before has a country forfeited so much soft power with so little justification amid such intense competition with a rival GIFT LINK for this column about upheaval in the State Department: bloom.bg/44CdlGp @opinion.bloomberg.com

With his new stance toward the Kremlin, Trump just demonstrated the positive role that personal frustration, embarrassment and vanity can play in world affairs. NO PAYWALL @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

When even spy agencies have to put loyalty to the leader above objectivity and truth, the whole nation loses, and becomes less safe GIFT LINK: bit.ly/3GAkNZq @opinion.bloomberg.com

Elbridge Colby, a strategist in the Pentagon who wants to focus America’s might on China, wields outsized clout in an administration increasingly short on expertise GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4kMF7F7 @opinion.bloomberg.com

The White House is in full propaganda mode about the intelligence on the Iran strike. So are its critics. For now, ignore them all. GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4lrXbVA @opinion.bloomberg.com

In the US attack on Iran so far, power has trumped legitimacy. But to resolve the conflict without major war, the president needs both GIFT LINK: bit.ly/3G6w7fF @opinion.bloomberg.com

GIFT LINK: The prowess on display in America’s strike on Iran inspired shock and awe. So did the start of America’s forever wars bit.ly/3SZKQvL @opinion.bloomberg.com

As Trump weighs whether to join Israel's war against Iran, a rift opens in his own base, not to mention the world. GIFT LINK: bit.ly/43Q4gJK @opinion.bloomberg.com

As the G-7 concludes its 50th summit by defining success as avoiding a major blow-up by the American guest, one wonders: What’s the point anymore? GIFT link: bit.ly/3TfT577 @opinion.bloomberg.com

NO PAYWALL: Trump had a dream of being a prize-winning peacemaker. Now he may enter the nightmare of America fighting yet another war www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... @opinion.bloomberg.com

Republicans in Congress who are pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia are mustering more courage to help the president correct course GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/44cwEpo @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump doesn’t have to withdraw from the United Nations to deep-six it. He can just keep undermining everything it tries to do, from the big (the SDGs) to the symbolic (a World Horse Day).... GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4kBZ2an @opinion.bloomberg.com

Even if you stipulate that DEI went too far, what’s now happening at the departments of Defense and State should worry you Gift link: bloom.bg/4mRMI7t @opinion.bloomberg.com

The secretary of state is now also the national security advisor, and even America’s chief archivist. And yet Rubio doesn’t seem to be the top diplomat. What gives? GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/45LBnPY @opinion.bloomberg.com

The anti-missile shield that Trump wants to put in the sky could protect North America from attacks. But it could also invite them It's called the "Security Dilemma" in international relations GIFT LINK: bit.ly/3HoqklC @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump sometimes has the right instincts about America’s role in the world. Too bad that doesn’t translate into good statecraft GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/4jdEO5g @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump loves big, bold deals, and says he'll bring peace to the Middle East. So this Iranian proposal should appeal to him ... GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/3GUh7Bw @opinion.bloomberg.com

Biden should have broken with Netanyahu to save Zionism, but didn’t. Trump is dissing Bibi, but not for the sake of Israel. He’s doing it for himself GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/3F8A1nC @opinion.bloomberg.com

When the stakes are nuclear, and even when they’re not, only the US can prevent the absolute worst GIFT LINK: bloom.bg/4jHly0Y @opinion.bloomberg.com

In Gaza, Iran and the world, Donald Trump is about to discover that his simple solutions die in complexity GIFT LINK: bit.ly/3Z6afqR @opinion.bloomberg.com

As Michael Waltz and Marco Rubio shuffle jobs, American foreign policy keeps going 👊US 🔥 bit.ly/431uOGl @opinion.bloomberg.com

"One of the gravest dangers to America and the whole world is .... the herd mentality and cowardice that prevent a storied American political institution from speaking truth to a wannabe king in its own ranks...." GIFT LINK: bit.ly/4lTBkHv @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump is scaring away international students who will become world leaders. Dumb in so many ways.... Gift link: bit.ly/3REi6Ib @opinion.bloomberg.com

My advice to small and medium countries in the Trump era: Emulate Vietnam and adopt some version of its “bamboo diplomacy.” NO PAYWALL with this link @opinion.bloomberg.com bloom.bg/3GoOkF2

Barely 100 days into Trump’s second term, the US is veering from benevolence to negligence in international affairs. Malevolence could be next. NO PAYWALL with this link: bloom.bg/42OeMzw @opinion.bloomberg.com

To understand the backwards nature of Trump’s approach to Greenland, it’s important to know the long-standing alliance between the US and Denmark, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social 📽️

The good news: America has a close ally in Denmark to keep the Arctic safe from Russia and China. The bad: The US is turning that friend into a foe NO PAYWALL with this: bloom.bg/3GqntYU @opinion.bloomberg.com

Trump and his “madman theory” won’t get the ayatollah to scrap his nuclear program NO PAYWALL with this: bloom.bg/42Fnu3W @opinion.bloomberg.com