Andreas Kluth

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

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

With his new stance toward the Kremlin, Trump just demonstrated the positive role that personal frustration, embarrassment and vanity can play in world affairs. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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