If Moscow were stronger, this never would have happened. If Trump weren’t so authoritarian, he might not have risked it.
Foreign Affairs
Reporting and analysis on foreign affairs and America’s role in the world.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Iranian Gambit: It Didn’t Have to Come to This
He pulled us out of the imperfect but functional Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, leaving us blind, without our strongest allies, and crossing our fingers.
Posted inRussia’s War on Ukraine
Ukraine: Requiem for a Citizen Soldier
My friend, an entrepreneur turned exemplary officer, was killed in action in eastern Ukraine this year. Like his comrades, he knew what he was fighting for.
Posted inForeign Policy
America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
Posted inForeign Policy
Trump’s Authoritarian Envy: The Plight and Peril of a Lame Duck
Envious of Putin, Xi, and other authoritarians who have no clock ticking, the president is more dangerous than ever.
Posted inRussia’s War on Ukraine
Putin’s Energy Blitzkrieg is Backfiring
Far from freezing Ukrainians into submission, Moscow’s drone and missile strikes are stiffening their resolve.
Posted inFeatured
Why Europe Needs Its Own Nuclear Deterrent
With the rules-based order collapsing, Europe faces aggressive great powers, including, under Trump, the U.S. The case for a big exception to nuclear nonproliferation.
Posted inForeign Policy
Rules-Based International Order 1. Trump Imperialism 0
The president tried to assert the power to do whatever he wanted on the global stage. The market disagreed.
Posted inPolitics
Greenland and the Benjamins
There’s a method behind Trump’s madness and it’s colored green.
Posted inForeign Policy
As Trump’s Greenland Threat Grows, Europe Begins to Find Its Voice
Trump appeasers are being challenged by reformers who take a tougher stand with the rogue American president.
