Ned Price
@nedprice.bsky.social
The personal account of a recidivist public servant — most recently Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and State Department Spokesperson. Previously with NSC and CIA.
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I wrote in the @nytimes.com about DoD's restrictions on what its press can report. Amid the many headlines from the Pentagon, this kind of overreach can quietly, but steadily, corrode our democratic norms, potentially compounding over time if left in place. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
It's right to focus on the economic headwinds of Trump's tariffs & how they'll make life more expensive--from eggs to cars. But we should also look closely at the flip-side: his exemptions, a source of pay-for-play corruption & another control lever for an aspiring authoritarian.
Let’s see the details, but a decree that forces Kyiv to choose between ceding political sovereignty to Putin or economic sovereignty to Trump isn’t the basis for a just peace. American companies deserve opps in Ukraine, but this isn’t the way to do it. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
The most damning indictment of the WH's Ukraine strategy comes from none other than Putin himself. There MUST be condemnation and bias -- that's the very nature of a "just" peace in this case. In other words, a peace that distinguishes aggressor from victim and treats each accordingly.
A dynamic we saw during Trump's first term is super-charged in the second: the Administration's "foreign policy" is nothing more than MAGA red meat domestic policy masquerading as strategy on the world stage. It was dangerous then, and it's more so now. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/v...
Dictators and their aspirants the world over know that it’s not enough to control state media; they seek to create an “official” art and culture scene to asphyxiate a potential source of opposition. Trump’s seizure of the Kennedy Center may be about pure vanity. But it has eery echoes.
