Curt Mills
Executive Director at The American Conservative
Contributor at Freelance
executive director of @amconmag
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1 week ago |
theamericanconservative.com | Sumantra Maitra |Curt Mills
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... It is a difficult time for those of us who wanted a moment where institutionalism and credentialism were torn down in favor of genuine scholarship, erudition, and expertise that exists outside the confines of an ideological academia. The proximate cause: a recent appearance of British writer Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Murray is a raging neoconservative who has been proselytizing since the George W. Bush administration.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Curt Mills
The most dramatic of tariffs are paused for now, but a different trade war is already underway — the battle to use the tariff debate as a springboard to the GOP presidential nomination in 2028. Consider Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. “I worry, there are voices within the administration that want to see these tariffs continue forever and ever,” Cruz said recently on his podcast.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Curt Mills
The most dramatic of tariffs are paused for now, but a different trade war is already underway — the battle to use the tariff debate as a springboard to the GOP presidential nomination in 2028. Consider Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. “I worry, there are voices within the administration that want to see these tariffs continue forever and ever,” Cruz said recently on his podcast.
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2 weeks ago |
theamericanconservative.com | Curt Mills
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... “Everything is possible with Donald Trump,” one State Department source familiar with the hiring told The American Conservative. This person was speaking of the shock retention of Darren Beattie as the acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.
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1 month ago |
stonezone.com | Curt Mills
Victoria Nuland resigned from the State Department in March 2024, a year ago. Over her career, Nuland built a reputation as a hawk of hawks, having worked as an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and as spokeswoman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Even before her tenure as President Joe Biden’s undersecretary of state for political affairs, Nuland was widely seen as an avatar of the United States’ post–Cold War tendency to spend billions intervening in remote foreign conflicts.
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“There is real possibility of ceasefire & peace deal… [Putin] told Witkoff that Moscow could relinquish its claims to areas of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions that remain under Kyiv’s control” Could have been done years ago. Better late than never.
There is real possibility of ceasefire & peace deal: "Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine at the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The Russian president https://t.co/A2UP6Cd0GC
For all the pretenses of MAGA ultra-loyalty, what remains of Hegseth’s cadre is frontlined by a literal Biden holdover and Democratic donor (with politics that lean neocon, sources familiar allege) “Proximity is power. ..He was around the secretary more than anybody else.” https://t.co/eQLbcN7kEW
I would be happier than most to find an ideological valence here (“the neocons are taking out the realists on Iran,” etc etc). But Pentagonate, based on all available evidence, is about absurd operational incompetence— nothing less, and nothing more
At times, departing Pete Hegseth chief of staff Joe Kasper’s detractors say his leadership seemed almost juvenile. He graphically described his bowel movements to colleagues in one high-level Pentagon meeting (!), according to two people in the meeting. https://t.co/Jy8IBZoSdL
