Andrew Roth
@Andrew__Roth
Global affairs correspondent for @guardian in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow via London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: [email protected] Signal: andrewroth.38
I dug in to Musk's dismantling of USAid because it shows his playbook for capturing the whole federal government. What surprised me was his direct involvement in the operation. For example, he demanded suspension of 57 career officers by phone last Monday. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…
NEW: Deputy SecDef Stephen Feinberg authorized the freeze and Pete Hegseth signed off, per people familiar Feinberg made the decision after Under Secy for Defense Policy Bridge Colby compiled a “rec memo” for him outlining options to conserve the stockpile Patriot missiles and…
Asked by @kaitlancollins who ordered the pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, POTUS says: "I don't know"
Great scoop here by @hugolowell
NEW: Trump has been averse to say the US stockpile of Patriot missiles is at 25% of what the Pentagon needs for all of its military plans, but the depletion contributed to the Trump admin pausing transfers to Ukraine, per people familiar @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
The unfounded attacks by @DNIGabbard on @washingtonpost reporter @nakashimae demean the office she has been appointed to. We will continue to pursue transparency and report on the IC in service to our readers and the values on which this country was founded. Happy July 4th. 🇺🇸
Statement from Executive Editor Matt Murray: “For three decades, Ellen Nakashima has been one of the most careful, fair-minded, and highly regarded reporters covering national security. Reaching out to potential sources rather than relying solely on official government press…
I spoke to perpetrators and investigators in the grim trend in Ukraine of Russians recruiting teenagers online and turning them into unwitting suicide bombers theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
A senior advisor to the state department’s human rights bureau is lobbying to take funds earmarked by congress for democracy promotion and give it to Marine Le Pen’s legal defense, and other Trump administration pet projects like resettling Afrikaaners. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
State department’s human rights focused DRL bureau has been told to close all but two of 391 remaining programs, an estimated 80% of state’s democracy programming abroad in some of the world’s toughest autocracies. Exclusive for @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Meanwhile the ex deputy director DTRA — the agency that helped develop and test the bunker busters — said on the record it wouldn’t destroy Fordow And the White House has not denied that DTRA briefed senior politicals at the Pentagon that the bombs wont penetrate far enough
To be clear, that is not at all what I was told. The White House refuted a Guardian report claiming that the Pentagon's assessment of bunker busters was mixed, that only a tactical nuke would be a sure thing, and that POTUS was not considering using one and no option for a…
NEW: Trump wants to strike Iran only if the US can destroy the Fordow enrichment facility with bunker bomb. The Pentagon/DTRA concluded earlier this year they don’t go deep enough, and totally destroying Fordow requires a tactical nuke. @guardian exclusive theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…
slow news day so the US has sanctioned four ICC judges theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
occasionally this timeline feels like watching developments in early 2000s Russia at 10x speed
Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
“They play a very careful game because they don’t want to upset their relationship with the big guy,” said one person briefed on the discussions. “I do think his heart and his head is in the right place. Just really not quite his own courage.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
It's impossible not to root for Luis Enrique. Has spoken courageously about losing a child, insisting people remember all the light his late daughter, Xana, brought to world before tragically dying in 2019. The most human, soulful manager in sports ❤️
As @NormEisen and I point out here, ethics used to be about rules that applied in Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Since 2017 ethics has been about political parties defending their own and presidents doing whatever they want to do. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
NEW: Tulsi Gabbard fired the top two officials at the National Intelligence Council after the council authored an assessment that contradicted Trump’s rationale for invoking the Alien Enemies Act and deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without due process
Sasha and his family were forced to suddenly leave behind their life in Kyiv because of the war with Russia. Now, they and scores of others who came to the US under the Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) program fear their lives may once again be uprooted cnn.com/2025/05/10/pol…
Just when I thought I was out they pulled me back in
We won two World Wars, but we never took credit for it — Everyone else does! All over the World, the Allies are celebrating the Victory we had in World War II. The only Country that doesn’t celebrate is the United States of America, and the Victory was only accomplished because…
NEW: Our exclusive deep dive into a suspected Russian-led cell behind the parcel bomb plots with the first interviews with those directly involved, revealing how the sabotage campaign unfolded on the ground With @shaunwalker7 theguardian.com/world/2025/may…
“These people are disposable.” I’ve been working for a while on this story about how Russian intel services recruit (often unsuspecting) Ukrainians and Belarusians for their sabotage offensive in Europe, and how Western services are trying to counter it. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…