CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND. NYT bestseller & NYT 10 best books of 2024. Mainly on Bluesky.
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Trump just bragged that US troops executed a criminal suspect in Venezuela. How is this legal? I just wrote a Substack.
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Jun 12
As far as I can tell, Tulsi’s big “secret biolab” bombshell is recycled Kremlin propaganda. These labs were never secret.
The U.S. spent decades funding biosafety and disease-surveillance work abroad under Nunn-Lugar, with the facility lists posted publicly by the State Department and our own embassy in Kyiv.
Russia invented the “secret bioweapons” spin in 2022 to help justify invading Ukraine. Our own intelligence flagged it as disinformation. Now Tulsi is laundering that exact line, while conveniently forgetting the first Trump administration funded this same research.
Nothing was hidden and the only thing being manufactured here is the coverup.
Tulsi, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Jun 12
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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The “deal” Trump is negotiating with Iran is just an attempt to escape the quagmire in which he has ensnared the entire world—beginning with his ill-fated decision to leave the nuclear accord in 2018. Speaking on CNN.
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Jun 11
THE GREATEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY.
THE KNICKS LEAD THE NBA FINALS 3-1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
“This is likely to be the costliest TACO (the now-famous acronym for Trump Always Chickens Out) that the president has ever bought,” @MaxBoot writes. wapo.st/4fymg1u
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Jun 8
Trump made the war all but impossible to win by laying out maximalist demands — at one point he was calling for Iran’s “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” — while using minimalist means. Airpower alone is notoriously incapable of achieving regime change, and yet that’s what Trump foolishly tried to do in Iran, while ignoring the obvious risk that Tehran would retaliate by closing the strait. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Jun 8
The best case would likely be JCPOA , which probably could have been achieved without the war -- if they had actual experienced diplomats and understood face-to-face negotiations.
Jun 8
The best Trump can hope for is that Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz without tolls and accept limits on its nuclear program backed by international inspections. That would basically recreate the conditions that existed under Obama’s nuclear deal. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
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The best Trump can hope for is that Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz without tolls and accept limits on its nuclear program backed by international inspections. That would basically recreate the conditions that existed under Obama’s nuclear deal. wapo.st/4xc0tTy
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Jun 8
On May 23, Trump said a deal to end the war with Iran was almost finalized and would be “announced shortly.” Yet no deal has been unveiled. On Sunday, Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel, and Israel hit back. So what happened? wapo.st/4xc0tTy
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
Jun 6
I wrote a Substack about Pete Hegseth's offensive address at the D-Day ceremony in Normandy. He used what is a sacred occasion to attack allies and immigrants.
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
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You mean come to Russia’s defense against NATO, Max?
Jun 1
Trump has blocked new U.S. aid for Ukraine, and hasn’t condemned Putin’s recent missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians — and now on an apartment building in Romania. He doesn’t even call out Putin for helping Iran target U.S. forces. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? wapo.st/4viqXkt
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
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The “secret sauce” of American power in the post-1945 era has been the country’s network of alliances. Good news for America’s enemies: President Donald Trump appears intent on doing to U.S. alliances what he has already done to the East Wing of the White House. wapo.st/4viqXkt
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
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Trump has blocked new U.S. aid for Ukraine, and hasn’t condemned Putin’s recent missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians — and now on an apartment building in Romania. He doesn’t even call out Putin for helping Iran target U.S. forces. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? wapo.st/4viqXkt
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Trump confirms what I wrote this morning—that he is taking a wrecking ball to our alliances. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? He’s more exercised about windmills than Putin’s aggression! wapo.st/4viqXkt
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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 retweeted
"President Donald Trump appears intent on doing to U.S. alliances what he has already done to the East Wing of the White House," @MaxBoot writes.
"Let’s take a tour of the world to see the damage he is inflicting with his wrecking-ball diplomacy." wapo.st/4u3p1eF
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