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> Trump is elected

> Walt is praising Noam Chomsky

okay are we on track for the apocalypse
The record of U.S. hypocrisy recounted in a new book by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson is sobering and convincing, columnist @stephenwalt writes.
December 1, 2024 at 10:07 PM
anandmenon.bsky.social
This is a great read by @stephenwalt And actually provides more grounds for some slight optimism at least than this para implies! foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/30/t...
January 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Don't miss!

Has Trump's failed Iran war dealt a blow to US power comparable to the Iraq War? What will the grandstrategic repercussions of the war be?

Join the discussion w/ @monicaduffytoft, @stephenWalt & @stephenwertheim Thursday at 2pm ET.

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April 22, 2026 at 4:41 PM
tparsi.bsky.social
After weeks of discussing the micro-tactics of Trump's foolish Iran war, you will find our excellent discussion with @monicaduffytoft, @stephenwertheim & @stephenWalt about the implications for US grandstrategy most illuminating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MK...
Grand Strategy Implications of Trump’s Iran Debacle: Is This the End of Primacy?
YouTube video by Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
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April 24, 2026 at 2:37 PM
tparsi.bsky.social
WOW!
Another feather in the cap of John Mearsheimer and @stephenWalt!

Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt over their book on the “Israel Lobby”

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Jeffrey Epstein Aided Alan Dershowitz’s Attack on Mearsheimer and Walt’s “Israel Lobby”
Epstein and Alan Dershowitz collaborated on smear campaigns against Mearsheimer, Walt, and an underage assault victim making allegations against Epstein—in the same week.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Not only do U.S. partners have to worry that the United States is no longer trustworthy, but they also have to worry that the United States is actively malevolent, columnist @stephenwalt writes.

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What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0
An academic assessment of the U.S. president’s foreign-policy revolution.
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February 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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@AJUpFront: “I look at the set of people [Trump] has nominated this time, and they look to me like people who aren't likely to stand up to Trump.” Professor @stephenWalt tells #AJEUpFront host @marclamonthill. 

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November 18, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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He blocks almost everyone who contradicts him— unless you have more followers— but especially if you have evidence of, say, him spouting Kremlin-enabling nonsense pre-April 2022
Tom Nichol: @RadioFreeTol • Dec 30, 2021 ... This current crisis in Ukraine is entirely of Putin's making. But Biden (and even Trump and Obama) would have more room to maneuver if NATO had not talked up eventual UKR and Georgia NATO membership back in 2008. The Russians have been dining out on this ever since. 943 2756 0431 ll I 贝企 Tom Nichol: @RadioFreeToi • Dec 23, 2021 ... It's possible that Putin is trying to sell a Georgia 2008 rationale for another war in Ukraine, or even to bait Ukraine somehow into making a move. But it's also possible that he's just losing his marbles, because the stuff he's saying is vintage Cold War nutsiness. Tom Nichol @RadioFreeT • Mar 1, 2022 ... Replying to @chessninja and @joshtpm I was totally against helping in 2008 and we can have that fight about whether the Georgians blundered into a trap another day. But I disagree entirely about "Georgia is how we got here." Part of how we got here is things that happened (or didn't) in UKR 20 years ago. /1 Tom Nichol @RadioFreel • Feb 13, 2015 ... Replying to @RadioFreeTom .@drfarls @stephenWalt Georgia was far more likely a NATO candidate. If this defensive stuff is correct, 2008 was perfect year to seize it. Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom • Feb 1, 2022 ... If #Ukraine had kept #nuclearweapons, we'd have a more dangerous war a lot earlier, in my view. My @TheAtlantic newsletter: newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/61f... The more likely scenario, in my view, is that a Ukrainian nuclear stockpile would have been low-hanging fruit for any Russian government, and especially for a desperate Kremlin that might have wanted to whip up an instant crisis, real or imagined, over "Ukrainian nuclear stability." Instead of treading carefully, Putin and his goons might have presented the U.S. and NATO with claims that the Ukrainian chain of command was breaking down or that terrorists or proliferators were making inroads into the nuclear stockpile. (Some of those charges might even have had some substance back then; the Ukrainians didn't have the codes to operate the weapons, which would have made it tempting to sell them in pieces to wealthy bad guys.) The Kremlin would then have argued that letting Ukraine keep its nukes was a dangerous mistake. Other nations might well have agreed. Who knows, even America might have agreed, because many of those weapons were targeted at the United States. Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTon • Feb 17, 2022 ... It is the biggest country entirely in Europe. But also, they don't have to occupy the entire country, just enough to collapse the government and withdraw and then partition it while a government in Kyiv signs off on the end of Ukraine's future as an independent state. Charlie Syke @SykesChe • Feb 17, 2022 Clarifying.
August 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
thepiaz.bsky.social
#StephenWalt suggests the #Trump administration has exhausted its options in its confrontation with #Iran, marking a strategic dead end after years of aggressive posturing.

#Western media often omits US withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 directly escalated tensions, framing current policy as merely
Trump Administration's Iran Strategy Faces Critical Impasse, Says Analyst
August 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Political scientist Stephen Walt argues that Donald Trump has run out of options regarding Iran and that his policies are ultimately weakening the United States.

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#resist47 #IranWar #StephenWalt #ForeignPolicy #USIranRelations
Trump has ‘run out of options’ in Iran war: Stephen Walt
via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Political scientist Stephen Walt says Trump promised to make US stronger, but many of his policies are making it weaker.
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August 23, 2026 at 7:07 PM
ysy1976.bsky.social
U.S:Trump’s willingness to run roughshod over the checks and balances embedded in the Constitution is unparalleled in U.S. history, and the long-term consequences will be severe, writes columnist
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August 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
hostilespectrum.bsky.social
Pour one out for @stephenWalt getting dragged for what was clearly an editors change to “clarify” a list of equipment in common argument. Proving once again trying to make pieces “more accessible” to the “general readership” does a great disservice to debate. Whatever one thinks of a given position.
September 24, 2023 at 4:24 PM
klamberg.bsky.social
@stephenWalt Have you written recently on Sweden's or Finland's policy of military non-alignment/neutrality? Interesting to hear your view
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 AM
klamberg.bsky.social
Professor @stephenWalt to @realDonaldTrump: Stop giving realism a bad name https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/08/donald-trump-keep-your-hands-off-the-foreign-policy-ideas-i-believe-in-nation-building-united-states/
Donald Trump: Keep Your Hands Off the Foreign-Policy Idea...
The GOP candidate is talking up three important and sensi...
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November 27, 2024 at 12:08 AM
klamberg.bsky.social
Läsvärd artikel av @stephenWalt, akademiker inom den s k realistiska skolan inom statsvetenskap & internationella relationer. För svensk publik: begreppet "liberal" används i artikeln i annan & bredare bemärkelse än folkpartiet/partiet...
November 23, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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"If it's OK to..."

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Stephen Walt: As Putin did in Crimea... #StephenWalt #shorts #Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy
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May 29, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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@stephenWalt
Does the best job so far of explaining why there is NOT much difference between Obama & Trump when it comes to foreign policy & why I am NOT sad Trump pulled out of #Syria . Thanks @lydon_chris for having him on @radioopensource
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Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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November 21, 2024 at 8:49 PM
hepedk.bsky.social
5/3 2026

Kommentator og Harvard-professor #StephenWalt giver #tRumps #udenrigspolitik en hård medfart i en aktuel artikel.

Information har talt med ham om Iran, Israel, Europa og tRumps brud på normer

#tRumpistan #statsterrorisme #eupol #dkpol

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Under Trump er USA blevet en ’rovdyrsgrisk hegemon’, der myrder statsoverhoveder i andre lande
Kommentator og Harvard-professor Stephen Walt giver Trumps udenrigspolitik en hård medfart i en aktuel artikel. Information har talt med ham om Iran, Israel, Europa og Trumps brud på normer
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March 6, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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4/10 2025

Can a #one-sided, #unserious #USplan deliver peace to Gaza?

US political scientist #StephenWalt argues the US is staging a #half-hearted #intervention that won’t lead to peace

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Can a ‘one-sided, unserious’ US plan deliver peace to Gaza?
US political scientist Stephen Walt argues the US is staging a ‘half-hearted’ intervention that won’t lead to peace.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. Bluesky: @stephenwalt.bsky.social X: @stephenwalt
pt007.bsky.social Vanessa Enriquez-Rios @pt007.bsky.social · Mar 17
An expert’s point of view on a current event.

Trump Is Not a Revolutionary
Not all political upheaval is created equal.

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Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. Trump Is Not a Revolutionary Not all political upheaval is created equal. Stephen M. Walt By Stephen M. Walt, a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks before a capacity crowd at a rally for his campaign on April 10, 2016 in Rochester, New York. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks before a capacity crowd at a rally for his campaign on April 10, 2016 in Rochester, New York. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images My FP: Follow topics and authors to get straight to what you like. Exclusively for FP subscribers. Subscribe Now | Log In March 17, 2025, 1:32 PM
March 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
mbhastings.bsky.social
Just a reminder of one of the pieces in how we got here. Two years ago today.
Foreign Policy: When it comes to U.S. foreign policy, a second Trump term may not be that different from what Biden would do should he win another four years in office, columnist @stephenwalt argues.
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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@stephenWalt: Joe Biden’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card - An unsparing look at the outgoing U.S. president’s international legacy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/14/j...
Joe Biden’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card
An unsparing look at the outgoing U.S. president’s international legacy.
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January 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
jsargentr.bsky.social
Now I am too. "@hmfic04: @russiannavyblog @DuffelBlog @stephenWalt @tomricks1 still waiting for someone to write the sitcom "Fobbits""
December 5, 2024 at 8:55 AM
terenceleepols.bsky.social
Pretty much sums it up.

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February 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM