Hal Brands
Opinion Columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek
JHU, AEI, Bloomberg Opinion. Author of new book, The Eurasian Century, https://t.co/6AYaBa3Q49
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5 days ago |
myemail.constantcontact.com | Matthew Olay |Hal Brands |Bethany Elliott |Mujib Mashal
Quotes of the Day:"The fish never discovers that it lives in water. In fact, since he lives immersed in it, his life goes by without noticing its existence. Similarly, behavior that is normalized in a dominant cultural setting becomes invisible." – Michael Foucalt"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles."– Fyodor Dostoevsky"Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."– Eugene Ionesco1.
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6 days ago |
aei.org | Hal Brands
President Donald Trump’s team has achieved one “reverse Kissinger”: By adding the national security adviser’s job to his duties as secretary of state, Marco Rubio has attained, albeit in reverse order, the daunting combination of titles Henry Kissinger bore in the 1970s. President Donald Trump will, alas, find it harder to do a second “reverse Kissinger” — pulling Russia away from China, as Kissinger supposedly pulled China away from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
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6 days ago |
bloomberg.com | Hal Brands
During the Cold War the US split China from Russia by putting pressure on the weaker partner. That’s not going to work against Moscow today. President Donald Trump’s team has achieved one “reverse Kissinger”: By adding the national security adviser’s job to his duties as secretary of state, Marco Rubio has attained, albeit in reverse order, the daunting combination of titles Henry Kissinger bore in the 1970s.
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1 week ago |
thestar.com.my | Hal Brands
US President Donald Trump anointed himself, in his second inaugural, as the world’s “peacemaker.” Just over 100 days later, his presidency is consumed by conflict. The coming months will be Trump’s season of crisis, a legacy-making period in which he must navigate three hot wars, a cold war, a potential war and a trade war.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | Hal Brands
Donald Trump’s provocative, pointless threats to annex Canada helped Mark Carney win that country’s recent election. Now it will represent the prime minister’s defining challenge. A hostile America presents a potentially existential threat to Canada, which is large but exquisitely vulnerable to US pressure.
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Trump's global trade brawl has become a US-China cage match. My latest for @opinion on just how ugly this could get. @AEI https://t.co/ms3CcTRLeL
RT @BPegged: This is a sobering geopolitical survey that you have to read...like, now. Check out my book review of The Eurasian Century: Ho…
The F-35 doesn’t have a kill switch, but American power is the global kill switch—one that Trump is now using against America’s friends more than its foes. @opinion @AEI https://t.co/0FjzPmNiyb
