David Ignatius
Columnist at The Washington Post
Associate Editor at The Washington Post
I am a columnist for the Washington Post, a former Harvard Kennedy School fellow and author of twelve espionage thrillers.
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washingtonpost.com | Max Boot |David Ignatius |Jason Willick
How does the Israel-Iran conflict end? (washingtonpost.com) How does the Israel-Iran conflict end? By Max Boot; David Ignatius; Jason Willick 2025061718503700 You're reading the Prompt 2025 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Iran and Israel continue to trade fire this week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered what he called a "preemptive strike" to disable Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
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almendron.com | David Ignatius
Ukraine’s daring drone attack against Russian air bases last weekend delivered “a serious slap in the face of the power … of the Russian Federation”, as Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk, the head of SBU, Ukraine’s security service, boasted after the operation. Some Ukraine supporters hoped the strikes might mark a breakthrough in the war. But what’s ahead appears to be a bloody continuation of this terrible conflict.
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keysnews.com | David Ignatius
Sherman Kent, the godfather of intelligence analysis, argued that the first obligation for his profession was to give policymakers accurate and unbiased information, through what he called “a mastery of background knowledge, evaluation and structuring of all-source material, and tradecraft expertise.”Telling inconvenient truths to presidents is what intelligence analysts are supposed to do.
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washingtonpost.com | David Ignatius
Ukraine’s dirty war is just getting started (washingtonpost.com) Ukraine’s dirty war is just getting started By David Ignatius 2025060523424300 Ukraine's daring drone attack against Russian air bases last weekend delivered "a serious slap in the face of the power … of the Russian Federation," as Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk, the head of SBU, Ukraine's security service, boasted after the operation.
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washingtonpost.com | David Ignatius
This is what a war on knowledge looks like (washingtonpost.com) This is what a war on knowledge looks like By David Ignatius 2025060400054400 On the wall of Ulrich Mueller's neurobiology lab at Johns Hopkins University is a map with pins that show all the different countries where his research fellows were born. It's a visual representation of what makes American science so powerful — and why that primacy is threatened.
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Listen to Dr. Tom Catena, a courageous Catholic relief doctor in South Sudan, explain why the Azerbaijani charges against his friend @RubenVardanyan_ are “completely false and absurd.”
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Note this warning from human-rights lawyer @JaredGenser about the sharply declining health of his client @RubenVardanyan_ who is on a hunger strike to protest his trial in Baku. Ruben co-founded @Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, whose motto “Gratitude in action” was never more
Please see this important update on my client @RubenVardanyan_’s situation. One week later, his blood pressure is up to 140/11 and he has lost six kgs (13 lbs) & the #Azerbaijan military court refused five motions to postpone the trial and insisted Ruben attend, despite his being https://t.co/jHeAHbTjXu
Worrying news from human-rights lawyer Jared Genser that @RubenVardanyan_ has begun a hunger strike to protest his detention and trial in Baku, Azerbaijan. People who know Ruben’s remarkable humanitarian work will share my concern for him.
My client @RubenVardanyan_ has launched a hunger strike yesterday in #Azerbaijan, where he is a political prisoner to protest the egregious violations of his substantive and due process #HumanRights. https://t.co/zth1ePH2Ag #FreeArmenianPrisoners #FreeRubenVardanyan
