Elizabeth N. Saunders

Hard to think through problems when we are in a mode where the current problem gets eaten by a bigger problem within hours.

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

To elaborate a bit on why inviting Putin to Alaska for talks on ending the war without Zelensky (or European allies) represents, among many other things, the death of US diplomacy 🧵1/

Really speedrunning everything from the Iraq War aren't we

Important thread on why Trump may not be able to just declare victory and go home.

Trump continues to light diplomatic capital on fire. My thread on this: bsky.app/profile/prof...

This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime. It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.