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2 months ago | 
quincyinst.org | George Beebe |Mark Episkopos |Anatol Lieven
The key to American success in ending the war in Ukraine is to broaden, rather than narrow, the issues under negotiation. If American negotiators treat the war as a bilateral dispute between Russia and Ukraine and press both sides to agree to an immediate ceasefire, they are likely to fail.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Anatol Lieven |Ted Snider
Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. ‘Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war!’ he wrote on Truth Social yesterday. ‘IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.’ But if the new president wants the war in Ukraine to end, American diplomats may have to open talks with Russia on issues much wider than Ukraine.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Anatol Lieven |Ted Snider
Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. ‘Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous war!’ he wrote on Truth Social yesterday. ‘IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.’ But if the new president wants the war in Ukraine to end, American diplomats may have to open talks with Russia on issues much wider than Ukraine. Russia’s problem, after all, is not just with Ukraine, but with the West. Is there a deal that will make Russia, Ukraine and the rest of the world, happy?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Arieh Kovler |Philip Patrick |Anatol Lieven |Michael Nazir-Ali
President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address last night in the Oval Office. While he started with strong patriotic themes, he ended by warning the country of some “things that give me great concern.” Biden declared that America is an oligarchy now. Cockburn thought it was turning into a dictatorship? He can’t keep track. Overall, though, he thought Biden’s speech presented an idealistic view of America.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Kate Andrews |David Kaufman |Anatol Lieven
After fifteen grueling months of war and negotiation, a ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas has been brokered, following intensive diplomatic activity led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt. Announced this afternoon, the deal marks a critical yet deeply contentious milestone in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Anatol Lieven |Stewart McDonald |Joseph Moreno
Pete Hegseth was the first cabinet nominee to the breach, leading Donald Trump’s collection of outsiders, populists and hellraisers into the Capitol Hill combat they can all expect to navigate in the coming weeks. And in terms of a first confrontation with the opponent, Hegseth handled his mission manfully — taking the slings and arrows from the Democratic side of the aisle with relative ease.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Juan P. Villasmil |David Kaufman |Anatol Lieven
Donald Trump has made a long list of promises for what will be done on “day one” of his second term in the White House. Peace in the Middle East was not one of them. Yet it looks increasingly likely that the president-elect will be sworn in having just helped to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, to (at least temporarily) end the war in Gaza.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Riva-Melissa Tez |David Kaufman |Anatol Lieven |Juan P. Villasmil
Donald Trump doesn’t take office for another week, but the Trump show starts in earnest this week with a confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, followed shortly by Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Doug Burgum, Doug Collins and others. While some drama is to be expected, Trump’s current nominees have mostly run the gauntlet unscathed. Not all were so lucky, however.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Ross Anderson |Anatol Lieven |Alexander Larman |Zoe Strimpel
Shortly into the first episode of Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s protagonist, Tommy Morris, is talking with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Ainsley, at a college football game. He’s just met her quarterback boyfriend, and Tommy asks her if they’re being careful having sex. She replies yes and that they have one rule they stick by. Apologies in advance. “As long as he never cums in me, he can come anywhere on me,” she says. Thornton holds a comic frozen stare and excuses himself to get a Dr. Pepper.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Charles Lipson |Anatol Lieven |Ross Clark |Grace Curley
The fire now engulfing whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles will soon engulf the politicians who failed to protect them. The first casualties will be Mayor Karen Bass and California governor Gavin Newsom. They are already “dead politicians walking.”It is important to recognize that Newsom and Bass are not being held responsible for a “natural disaster,” even one of horrific scale. Nor should they be.
