FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social take a look at a geopolitical saga for the ages, featuring outrage from Ukraine’s allies in Washington and Europe, frantic diplomacy, leaked phone calls, and more. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/26/t...

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During a meeting at the White House on Tuesday, MBS pushed Trump to help end the war in Sudan. And it seems his urging worked. More on that and other news in the latest SitRep from me + @iyengarish.bsky.social ⁦‪https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/20/trump-sudan-mbs-meeting-saudi-russia/

Putin's Unlikely Envoy to Washington - Kirill Dmitriev is a prominent purveyor of the Kremlin’s line—but real power may lie elsewhere. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/19/k...

This is actually what a healthy editor-reporter relationship looks like (sorry @jennruth.bsky.social)

U.S. allies are beginning to criticize and distance themselves from Trump’s drug boat war. More on that in this week’s SitRep from me and @iyengarish.bsky.social: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/13/a...

My mini-dispatch from @websummit.bsky.social 2025, featuring private jet woes, a dancing robot, and a perhaps-surprising-perhaps-not show of force by the Chinese government: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/w...

Democrats sweep state and local U.S. elections in a major blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s mandate. Lawmakers on the left hope that such wins foreshadow what midterm election results will look like next year. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/u...

My latest: France’s failure in Mali threatens the whole world foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/f...

Never thought I'd see the day when a New York City mayor's victory speech would close with the Dhoom theme song. Congrats to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

“I understand that I’m in Washington, but I just can’t [fall asleep]—because I hear a Shahed.” Ukraine's new ambassador to the U.S. sits down with @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/04/u...

Whenever any of my relatives ask how my job is going 👇

While trade, tariffs, and critical minerals dominated Trump’s agenda, tucked into several of the new agreements were deals on defense investment, cooperation, and production. FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social take a look.

It's been a five-byline kind of week, but I'm proudest of this subhead I came up with for @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social's explanation of Trump's nuclear testing directive in this week's @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/30/t...

"We have to collaborate together, and the U.S. is not the enemy to Europe.” I sat down with Estonian President Alar Karis in New York last week, for a wide-ranging conversation about Trump, Putin, NATO, drones, and more @foreignpolicy.com. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/29/e...

Check out FP’s Trade Tracker for the latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime—including who has managed to cut a deal and who is still facing the sweeping rates from April.

China expands its free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, aiming to portray itself as the bloc’s alternative to the United States. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/c...

Always fun when an old problem online (ineffective platform content moderation) combines with a newer problem online (easy, cheap deepfake scams). Also crypto. Just checks all the crappy boxes.

"Thank you all for your service in Making America Great Again" -- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang ends his two-hour keynote at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington D.C.

New trade agreements, new critical mineral deals--it's all happening in Asia for Trump this week. We've updated our tariff tracker and our critical minerals roundup @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/27/t...

Latest SitRep from me and @iyengarish.bsky.social: The Difficult Art of Bibi-Sitting foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/23/t...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese became the latest leader to use critical minerals as a fast-track into Trump’s good graces, FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social writes.

With Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to Washington, the list of countries using critical minerals as a fast track into Trump's good books grows longer. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/20/t... via @foreignpolicy.com

With Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's visit to Washington, the list of countries using critical minerals as a fast track into Trump's good books grows longer. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/20/t... via @foreignpolicy.com

"Foreigners are going to be paying to fix the vulnerabilities in our supply chain," Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro says at CFR about the rationale behind his trade and tariff policy.

The Slow Horses theme song always reminds me of the Johnny English theme song and I spend an inordinate amount of time wondering whether that's intentional.

AUKUS has gotten awkward, but can Albanese overcome? Today's @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report about the Australian Prime Minister's impending Trump meeting, with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/16/a...

The United States and China may have a plethora of issues between them, but at least basketball is back. My latest @foreignpolicy.com on the NBA's reticent return to China: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/14/n...

The United States and China may have a plethora of issues between them, but at least basketball is back. My latest @foreignpolicy.com on the NBA's reticent return to China: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/14/n...

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

"Why couldn’t machines have embraced the semicolon? No one gives a fig about those." Preach www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Even as Trump takes a Middle East victory lap and lobbies for the Nobel Peace Prize, he's expanding his military deployment against U.S. citizens across American cities. This week's @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report from myself and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/09/t...

Come for the headline, stay for the diplomatic anecdote about coffee at the State Department.

New SitRep from me and @iyengarish.bsky.social: Trump veers from his “America First” promises with unusual Article 5-like security guarantees for Qatar just weeks after it was bombed by Israel. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/02/t...

U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration is in immense flux on many fronts, with adversaries as well as allies. A government shutdown could exacerbate that. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/g... @foreignpolicy.com

U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration is in immense flux on many fronts, with adversaries as well as allies. A government shutdown could exacerbate that. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/g... @foreignpolicy.com

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The U.S. is preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, and the strikes could potentially begin within a matter of weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Final SitRep UNGA 80 edition @foreignpolicy.com from @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and yours truly. Netanyahu Faces Icy Reception at UNGA foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/26/n...

FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social outline where the U.N. is forging ahead on climate change, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian aid, and more.

Mass walkout from the UNGA hall this morning as Netanyahu took to the podium for his speech.

UNGA Day 4 dispatch from me and @iyengarish.bsky.social: The U.N. forges ahead on climate and AI despite U.S. ambivalence and mixed messaging. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/25/u...

Sharaa’s Successful UNGA PR Tour  foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/24/s... @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

"All I got from the United Nations was a broken escalator and a broken teleprompter," Trump tells UNGA.

UNGA Puts Palestine in the Spotlight foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/22/u... @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

High-level week of #UNGA starts tomorrow! @iyengarish.bsky.social and I will be on the ground all week. Keep an eye out for daily pop-up editions of SitRep. We’ll bring you all of the most important/juiciest details from UN HQ. Sign up for our newsletter here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/w...

NEW: As Trump and Xi were in the middle of their phone call this morning, I sat down with Taiwan's de-facto Ambassador to Washington for the second time in 14 months. A lot has changed in that time, but he insists that the fundamentals—and the stakes—have not. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/t...

Trump officially extends the divest-or-ban deadline on TikTok for a THIRD time, even as officials on both sides indicate a deal to transfer the app to U.S. ownership has been reached—new deadline is Dec. 16 Our piece from back in April (the first extension): foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/t...

Throughout the Israel-Hamas war, concerns have been raised about the potential for a regional conflict to break out. But in many ways, this is already the reality in the Middle East, write FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social.

Wrote a bit more about the Department of Defense/War confusion in this week's @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report, with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/i...

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...