Max Boot
Columnist at The Washington Post
Senior Fellow at The Council on Foreign Relations
CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author, NYT bestseller: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND. https://t.co/y4c7U40qzz
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How a trade war becomes a shooting war (washingtonpost.com) How a trade war becomes a shooting war By Max Boot 2025041411002500 In 2014, the eminent political scientist Graham Allison wrote an influential book called "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" The subtitle referred to a famous passage in Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War": "It was the rise of Athens, and the fear that this inspired in Sparta, that made war inevitable." Allison surveyed the...
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Trump’s emerging foreign policy is a disturbing 19th-century throwback (washingtonpost.com) Trump’s emerging foreign policy is a disturbing 19th-century throwback By Max Boot 2025040710154200 Nobody would ever accuse President Donald Trump of being a coherent or consistent thinker. But, less than three months into his second term, a recognizable Trump Doctrine is emerging in foreign policy.
Opinion | Trump’s tariffs exploit powers that Congress unwisely ceded long ago - The Washington Post
3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Max Boot
Trump’s tariffs are a tax by another name, and the power to levy taxes lies with Congress.
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4 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Max Boot
If you want to see a maestro at work, pay close attention to Russian President Vladimir Putin's negotiations over Ukraine with President Donald Trump and his special envoy (and fellow real estate tycoon) Steve Witkoff. The Russian president is playing the Americans like a Stradivarius. In early March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made clear his desire for peace by agreeing to a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire. But Putin refused to accept the U.S. plan.
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4 weeks ago |
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RT @MaxBoot: “Five of the Best Presidential Biographies.” Honored to have @economist.com recommend my Reagan book alongside other preside…
“Five of the Best Presidential Biographies.” Honored to have @economist.com recommend my Reagan book alongside other presidential biographies by Robert Caro, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Remnick—all writers I greatly admire. https://t.co/fdKr4UFumO https://t.co/7u8UKcArTB
If you have a Christmas Amazon gift card burning a hole in your pocket, might I recommend “Ronald Reagan: His Life and Legend”.... At 880 pages, the book looks intimidating. But Boot is a skillful writer and I flew through the book in a couple of weeks. https://t.co/0S8z0QQP5j
