What Caught My Eye (no. 15)
Some interesting articles and podcasts that caught my eye this week
Here’s this week’s edition of articles that I thought worth reading and sharing. Don’t hesitate to recommend your own reads; I may include some as well.
Gal Beckerman, Trump Is Fulfilling Kissinger’s Dream, The Atlantic, May 1, 2025. Henry Kissinger didn’t believe morality had a place in foreign policy. But Trump has taken this disdain to new levels, argues the magazine’s staff writer.
David Axe, At The Current Rate, It Would Take Russia Centuries And Tens Of Millions Of Casualties To Capture Ukraine, Forbes, May 1, 2025. The title says it all. Amidst all the talk of Ukraine not having any “cards,” Russia is making very little progress against dug-in Ukrainian forces and losing a great deal in the process.
Aaron Blake, Trump is making foreign liberals, free trade and immigrants great again, Washington Post, May 5, 2025. Not only is Trump’s popularity declining, but Americans are moving in the opposite direction on trade and immigration according new opinion polls, including one by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Thomas Friedman, This Israeli Government Is Not Our Ally, New York Times, May 9, 2025. The Times’s foreign affairs columnist argues the Netanyahu government has embarked on a Greater Israel effort that will alienate our Arab friends and cost Palestinians and Israelis alike dearly.
Roger Cohen, Europe Alone and in Shock on V-E Day, New York Times, May 8, 2025. The Paris bureau chief reports from Vichy on the anniversary of the end of war in Europe and how the continent now fears it has been abandoned by the very Americans that liberated them 80 years before.
Timothy Gorton Ash, Brace for disorder as the great power shifts begin, Financial Times, May 9, 2025. The historian of modern Europe argues that the end of America’s global role opens up an era of great disorder and danger.
Finally, in case you missed it here are links to articles I wrote, interviews I did, panels I joined, and a synopsis of my weekly podcast on world news.
Marco Rubio’s superpower? Getting Trump’s stuff done, The Observer, May 9, 2025.
‘Little Marco’ gets promoted to the big time. But what are the implications of Rubio’s ‘Secretary of Everything’ role? Planet America, Australian Broadcasting Company, May 7, 2025. (Interview starts at 9:00.)
World Review: Putin-Xi Pact, India-Pakistan Crossfire, Netanyahu’s Push, America Abroad, May 9, 2025.
Happy reading, watching, and listening!