Outside the Beltway

Come for the shots fired at the cabinet, stay for the weird digression.

Bret Stephens wants to oust Maduro in Venezuela.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

A four-pronged test.

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

Since I was thinking about 2016

Whoever you are, please stop trying to register clearly fake accounts.

The disconnect between perception and reality about elections.

And threatening states.

A strange obsession.

The artless deal.

The Russian autocrat may be on the verge of getting what he wants.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

Nuclear reactors to the moon!

Trump’s One Weird Trick to end the war in Ukraine.

Where are we with my concerns about the Trump administration?

Is dropping it on Israel the most likely reason?

Thinking about possible outcomes.

The bromance is apparently over.

Who could have known?

Thousands of job cuts are envisioned.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

Eye of the storm, indeed.

USA! USA! USA!

The illogical of MAGA.

America’s edge in innovation, built over a century, is being squandered in weeks.

A natural evolution in American foreign policy, albeit a concerning one.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

You know, the meritocracy at work.

First thing we do, let’s intimidate all the lawyers.

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

Parade of poor governance edition.

Our leaders are afraid to lead.

It made history in many ways.

America is getting screwed by playing by the rules it created.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

Russia, Russia, Russia?

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

Trump is spouting Russian talking points.

An embarrasing day in US history.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

Countering Russian (and now American) propaganda.

Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded.

Really, a older, more imperialistic one.