Stephen Wertheim
@stephenwertheim
America in the world, past and present. Senior Fellow, @CarnegieEndow @CEIPStatecraft. Lecturer, @YaleLawSch. Historian and author, @TomoTheWorld. Views my own.
In @nytopinion I write that President Trump is failing to be a peacemaker. He is not on track to reduce America’s military involvement in the world and is keeping the United States in a position that invites more wars, potentially much larger ones. Gift link below.
One of the best short critiques of Trump's foreign policy disaster.
Full article on Trump 2.0's foreign policy record, 6 months in👇 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/opi…
@CChivvis and I wrote about this risk in @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
I am about to respond to reader comments. Finally, my self-loathing has company!
In @nytopinion I write that President Trump is failing to be a peacemaker. He is not on track to reduce America’s military involvement in the world and is keeping the United States in a position that invites more wars, potentially much larger ones. Gift link below.
"The choices that count are not only, or mainly, whether to invade or bomb or not. They are also the choices... to give Israel at least $3.8 billion in military aid every year, no matter what; to expand NATO to countries the US has no intention to defend." x.com/stephenwerthei…
In @nytopinion I write that President Trump is failing to be a peacemaker. He is not on track to reduce America’s military involvement in the world and is keeping the United States in a position that invites more wars, potentially much larger ones. Gift link below.
"Mr. Trump is a thoroughly situational man in a deeply structural bind... If Mr. Trump is to reduce the country’s exorbitant defense burdens, as he claims to want, he must take the United States out of the position that guarantees them."
In @nytopinion I write that President Trump is failing to be a peacemaker. He is not on track to reduce America’s military involvement in the world and is keeping the United States in a position that invites more wars, potentially much larger ones. Gift link below.
Looking forward to this one:
Event: Threat Politics: Promise and Peril Why do politicians choose to emphasize or exaggerate threats? @CEIPStatecraft’s @Brettarosenberg discusses in her new paper – and at our upcoming launch event. 📅 July 29, 1pm EDT, live online. RSVP: carnegieendowment.org/events/2025/07…
🧵How much damage was done to Iran's nuclear program? An analysis of Friday's reporting of the U.S. government assessment. I'll focus on the @nytimes, which was clearer than the earlier but confused @NBCNews story. (1/n)
My latest: The US and Israel were briefly on the same page during the Iran strikes, but Trump's desire for big beautiful peace deals and Netanyahu's "mowing the grass" on steroids strategy are inevitably going to clash.
If Trump's AI deals in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates bear fruit, who will protect economically vital data centers from Iranian drones and missiles: America, first?
Trump's deals in the Gulf put AI infrastructure in locations vulnerable to attack — at a time when the risk from cheap drones is intensifying, @CChivvis and @SamWinterLevy write in the @washingtonpost.
Trump's Gulf data center plan will put a central node of the world’s AI infrastructure in locations highly vulnerable to drone and missile attack. Yet despite these obvious vulnerabilities, physical security has barely registered in the public debate. That needs to change.
Where in the world are US troops deployed? This map shows the location of US servicemembers in foreign countries and US territories. Each dot represents 50 people. 🧵
Great fun to talk with @CChivvis about Trump 2 at the 6-month mark, and the knowns and unknowns of this administration's foreign policy so far: youtu.be/TvXCbfwQfKM?si…
Fun time with @stephenwertheim on the ways Trump’s foreign policy is but a simulacrum of America First.
President Trump wants to be a "peacemaker and unifier." Six months in, is he really? @CEIPStatecraft's @stephenwertheim breaks down lessons learned from Trump's second-term foreign policy so far, with @CChivvis on the latest Pivotal States: youtu.be/TvXCbfwQfKM?si…
President Trump wants to be a "peacemaker and unifier." Six months in, is he really? @CEIPStatecraft's @stephenwertheim breaks down lessons learned from Trump's second-term foreign policy so far, with @CChivvis on the latest Pivotal States: youtu.be/TvXCbfwQfKM?si…
NEW Pivotal States podcast episode out today: @CChivvis and @stephenwertheim talk Trump 2.0's foreign policy record, six months in. Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=TvXCbf…