Joshua Keating

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior World Correspondent at Vox

Senior World Correspondent @voxdotcom Author of Invisible Countries [email protected]

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The US-Ukraine relationship looks a lot better than it did a few months ago.

1 week ago | vox.com | Joshua Keating

President Donald Trump’s seemingly infinite patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin may, in fact, have limits. “Something has happened to him.
Ukraine hasn’t won over Trump. But it might not need to.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Joshua Keating

President Donald Trump’s seemingly infinite patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin may, in fact, have limits. “Something has happened to him.
What the India-Pakistan standoff taught us about the growing threat of nuclear war

1 week ago | vox.com | Joshua Keating

Humanity has lived with nuclear weapons for so long — 80 years, this year — without destroying itself, that we sometimes take them for granted. But there’s no guarantee that our run of luck will continue. In fact, the risks are growing and transforming. The recent round of fighting between India and Pakistan, the most serious violence between the two nuclear rivals in decades, is a reminder that the risks of nuclear escalation have not disappeared.
Trump isn’t looking out for his right-wing nationalist friends

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Joshua Keating

Is President Donald Trump leading a vanguard of right-wing populist world leaders, working together to lay waste to the liberal international order while consolidating power at home? Possibly — but based on his recent foreign policy actions, he doesn’t appear to think so. Establishment-bashing politicians around the world, from Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte to the UK’s Boris Johnson, have drawn comparisons to Trump over the years.
How American guns helped fuel the Troubles

2 weeks ago | irishnews.com | Joshua Keating |Ali Watkins

Book review:The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American ArmyBy Ali WatkinsIn 1994, Gerry Adams was controversially given a visa to tour the United States, where he took the opportunity to give a speech announcing that, “It is our intention to see the gun removed permanently from Irish politics.”The line made sense given the location: He was in the country from which many guns had made their way to Ireland and played a decisive role in its politics.
How American guns helped fuel the Irish Troubles

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Joshua Keating

How American guns helped fuel the Irish Troubles (washingtonpost.com) How American guns helped fuel the Irish Troubles By Joshua Keating 2025051513000000 In 1994, Gerry Adams, the former Irish Republican Army militant turned political leader, was controversially given a visa to tour the United States, where he took the opportunity to give a speech announcing that, "It is our intention to see the gun removed permanently from Irish politics." The line made sense given the location: He was in...
Trump’s approach to Israel is not what most people expected.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Joshua Keating

What’s the opposite of a “bear hug”? That was the phrase often used to describe President Joe Biden’s approach to Israel since the October 7, 2023 attacks: publicly and enthusiastically backing Israel, particularly when it comes to its wider regional conflict with Iran and its proxies, while quietly trying to restrain Israel’s actions in Gaza.
India-Pakistan tensions: How bad could things get and how they can be deescalated

4 weeks ago | businessandamerica.com | Joshua Keating

The most likely outcome is that the latest deadly flare-up between India and Pakistan will end relatively soon: In the little over 25 years that the two countries have possessed nuclear weapons, both have become very good at engaging in tense and violent confrontations without them escalating to threaten the entire planet.
India-Pakistan tensions: How bad could things get and how they can be deescalated

4 weeks ago | vox.com | Joshua Keating

The most likely outcome is that the latest deadly flare-up between India and Pakistan will end relatively soon: In the little over 25 years that the two countries have possessed nuclear weapons, both have become very good at engaging in tense and violent confrontations without them escalating to threaten the entire planet.
Just how bad can the India-Pakistan crisis get?

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joshua Keating

8 hours agoIndian army shares footage of attack on alleged terrorist Pakistan campThe Indian army has shared footage of attack targeting what it says is an alleged terrorist camp in Pakistan on Friday (9 May). In post on X, the Indian army also said Pakistani troops had resorted to “numerous ceasefire violations” along the countries' de-facto border in Kashmir, a region that is divided between them but claimed in full by both.