“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…

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.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
“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.”

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.

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

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

“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.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

"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."

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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...

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

foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/03/i...

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.”