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Stephen Wertheim
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America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Trump gets way too much credit for talking about peace without delivering it. (And much of what he says — "peace through strength," no nation-building wars — is nothing new.)

Full podcast here: youtu.be/TvXCbfwQfKM?...
July 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I joined Morning Joe to discuss Trump's failure to end wars and avoid new ones — the standard he set for himself in his inaugural address.
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I told Munk Debates that the United States should not strike Iran if this weekend's talks fail. It shouldn't consider strikes unless Iran decides to get nuclear weapons (it hasn't), diplomacy has been exhausted (hardly), and there's a viable post-strike political endgame (extremely difficult):
April 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM