Walter Russell Mead
Columnist, Global View at The Wall Street Journal
Scholar @HudsonInstitute, professor @UF and columnist @WSJ. Latest book The Arc of a Covenant available for purchase using the link below.
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5 days ago |
wsj.com | Walter Russell Mead
The answers will emerge in due course; for now, it is more useful to look at the political calculations that led Mr. Trump to defy the restrainer wing of his coalition on what, for many Trump supporters, is the cause that brought them into politics and the defining issue of their lives. America’s 21st-century track record in the Middle East, under presidents of both parties, has been appalling.
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1 week ago |
jp.wsj.com | Walter Russell Mead
「もしも周りの者が皆、正気を失い、自分のことを責め立てているときに冷静でいられるなら（後略）」。このラドヤード・キプリングの詩「If（もしも）」の一節が筆者の頭の中に響き渡ったのは、激しいが冷静で落ち着いているように見えるイスラエルのベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相と6月8日にエルサレムの彼のオフィスで面会し、オフレコの会話をしたときのことだった。当時、イランに対するイスラエルの最近の攻撃はまだ始まっておらず、ビビ（友人も敵も同じようにイスラエル史上最も在任期間の長い首相をこう呼ぶ）が進退窮まっているというのが世間一般の見方だった。 ネタニヤフ首相とドナルド・トランプ米大統領が不仲だという報道がニュースをにぎわせていた。トランプ氏は最近の中東歴訪の際にイスラエルを訪れなかったと、ネタニヤフ氏に批判的な人々は指摘した。また、ペルシャ湾岸諸国が米国と取引をまとめる一方、ネタニヤフ氏率いるイスラエルは蚊帳の外に置かれた。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Walter Russell Mead
In days, Israel’s leader goes from parrying crises to leading an audacious hit on Iran. “If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . . ” These lines from Rudyard Kipling’s “If” echoed through my mind on June 8 as I sat down with an intense but cool- and calm-seeming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for an off-the-record conversation in his Jerusalem office.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Walter Russell Mead
An ally that welcomed his return to office has serious problems with his policies. Among the handful of American allies and partners that welcomed Donald Trump’s return to power, India was the most important. Nearly five months into his second term, some of Mr. Trump’s strongest Indian supporters wonder if they made a mistake. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Subscribe NowAlready a subscriber?
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Walter Russell Mead
After putting the IWT in abeyance, India is planning a study to maximise the utilisation of its share of water within the treaty with Pakistan Despite …
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Ian, you would capitalize the names of admittedly fictional entities like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Hoping that the lack of capitalization for ‘God’ in your post was a typo not some kind of backhanded slap at theists!
what's coming next with israel and iran? it’s hard to achieve peace in a conflict with a leader convinced that god is on his side. even harder when both leaders are. https://t.co/HVLdBkJIGX
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RT @WSJopinion: Trump’s Middle East policy will likely reflect his sense of the political balance inside his coalition. If that balance cha…
