Jakob Sinding Skött

Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.

“The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless.”

Wow! So much for the rule of law. Clearly, Trump believes he won a mandate to be a seventeenth century king…

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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The Maga reporter whose humiliation of Zelensky sparked a geopolitical crisis ‘Why don’t you wear a suit?’ jibe aimed at Ukrainian president came from the boyfriend of Right-wing firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene

How the MAGA-media set Zelenskyy up in the Oval Office and are changing White House coverage. telegraph.co.uk/gift/db18475...

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

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“Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime,” Ian Bond, deputy director of the Center for European Reform in London, wrote online. “Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy.”

Trump’s Pivot Toward Putin’s Russia Upends Generations of U.S. Policy As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u... Outrageous: “You should have never started it,” Mr. Trump said, referring to Ukrainian leaders who, in fact, did not start it.

Trump Suggests No Laws Are Broken if He’s ‘Saving His Country’ President Trump shared a quotation on social media, making it clear it was one he wanted people to absorb: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... This is how fascists talk!

Trump says: "he who saves his country does not violate any law" and is cheered on by Elon Musk, who posts 14 American flags

Attributed to Napoleon, who ended democracy in French, this quote was also used by Anders Breivik, the far-right anti-immigrant terrorist who murdered 77 people

Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

“Future generations will marvel that it wasn’t China’s actions that eroded U.S. standing and global security, paving the way for Beijing to become the partner of choice around the world. Instead, it was an American president and the billionaire he unleashed to shoot first and aim later.”

Of course it’s a coup Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government Elon Musk’s bureaucratic coup is under way.

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup."

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Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order? Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.

USAID was became an agency in statute in 1998 and cannot be dissolved by executive order www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-p... Congress even specifically prohibited reorganizing it without consultation last year www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

An Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Plan for Gaza Once a critic of nation building, the president now envisions taking over a Middle East enclave, driving out its Palestinian population and transforming it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

Trump insisted that the “decision” was not taken lightly, but this is quite literally the most incomprehensible policy proposal ever made by any American president. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0 An academic assessment of the U.S. president’s foreign-policy revolution.

What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0

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Totally agree with S. Walt’s analysis: “Trump may win a few concessions in the short term, but the long-term results will be greater global resistance and new opportunities for America’s rivals.”