Walter Mead

Jan 6, 2025 | flipboard.com | Walter Mead

3 hours agoShannon Agofsky and Len Davis were among 37 of the 40 federal prisoners whose death sentences were changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden — a move that …

Nov 12, 2024 | substack.news-items.com | John Ellis |Walter Mead

“If I could only open one thing each morning it would be John Ellis’s News Items newsletter.” — Larry Summers, President Emeritus of Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. 1. Walter Mead, The Wall Street Journal:(T)he world remains a dangerous place. Mr. Putin celebrated Mr. Trump’s return to power by putting old scantily clad modeling photos of the incoming first lady on Russian state TV. He is unlikely to offer Mr. Trump a cheap peace in Ukraine.

Nov 12, 2024 | jp.wsj.com | Walter Mead

米大統領選でドナルド・トランプ氏が再選を確実にすると、国内外の臆測の対象はすぐに同氏が2期目にどのような外交政策を追求するのかに移った。予測するのは簡単ではない。トランプ氏の外交政策の動機にはいろいろなものが混じっている。同氏は、新たに起きている一連の「終わりのない」戦争、遠く離れた場所で起きている小規模で勝つのが難しい紛争を取り仕切りたくないと心から思っている。トランプ氏はこうした戦争や紛争について、米国の中核的利益にほとんどならない問題を巡るものだと考えている。一方で彼はまた、地球規模の問題に介入して決定的影響を与えられるような人物であることも好む。トランプ次期大統領は新保守主義的な介入主義者ではないが、抑制が利かない人物だ。...

Nov 3, 2024 | tabletmag.com | Walter Mead

The biggest single crisis facing the United States on the eve of the election does not come from Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. It does not come from our enemies abroad. It does not come from our dissensions at home. It does not come from unfunded entitlement commitments. It does not come from climate change.

Oct 16, 2024 | audiobooks.com | Walter Mead

In this bold examination of the Israeli–American relationship, Walter Russell Mead demolishes the myths that both pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists have fostered over the years. He makes clear that Zionism has always been a divisive subject in the American Jewish community, and that American Christians have often been the most fervent supporters of a Jewish state, citing examples from the time of J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the present day.