Category: Trump-Russia

Russia doesn’t have a preference in 2020; Putin just thinks Trump is a terrific dealmaker

By Dan Nexon

In Trump-Russia

On February 23, 2020

I’m sure it’s purely a coincidence that we’re getting reports like this shortly after Trump fired the Director of National Intelligence (over this very issue) and replaced him with a right-wing sycophant, who brought in a far-right conspiracy theorist as a senior advisor. The US intelligence community’s top election security official appears to have overstated […]

Trump-Russia

The key is to assume the worst

By Dan Nexon

On January 12, 2019

Basically everyone that I know with national-security experience, or even academic knowledge, was deeply disturbed about the lack of documentation of Trump’s Helsinki meeting with Putin. It turn

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The Collapse of the Republican Center-Right

By Dan Nexon

On August 28, 2018

It will come as no surprise that I agree with Paul Krugman: the current Republican party is an active threat to American liberal democracy. Those who are troubled by the drift of their party find them

The New York Times Just Revealed Extremely Sensitive Intelligence. What Might That Mean?

By Dan Nexon

In Trump-Russia

On July 19, 2018

You’ve seen Paul’s post about yesterday’s bombshell New York Times piece. The story it reports, if true, means that Trump knew—since before his inauguration—that the US possessed unequivocal evidence that, first, Russia intervened in the 2016 election and, second, it did so with the aim of helping him win. I agree with Paul that this is just another […]