35 Sekunden im Oval Office: Ein Gespräch mit John Bolton
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music John Bolton, der einst unter Donald Trump Nationaler Sicherheitsberater im Weißen Haus war, hat sich zu einem seiner schärfsten Kritiker entwickelt. Im...
View ArticleIran is Europe’s war too, argues Trump’s former national security adviser
COPENHAGEN — Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has been at loggerheads with Donald Trump, but agrees with his old boss on at least one thing: Europe should get involved in Iran....
View ArticleTrump’s disappearing China hawks
As the world’s two most powerful leaders prepare to meet, the usual chorus of Republican warnings about the perils of dealing with Beijing has disappeared. The silence is a culmination of President...
View ArticleFBI searches ex-national security adviser John Bolton’s house in Maryland
Federal agents searched the Maryland home of John Bolton, former national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first administration, early Friday, according to two law enforcement...
View ArticleThe ‘kingmaker’: Trump relishes his diplomacy as he jockeys for Nobel prize
President Donald Trump campaigned on an “America First” policy that rejected the United States’ traditional role of global policeman. His first 200 days in office have said otherwise. Trump is...
View ArticleTreat Iranian kidnap and murder plots as an attack on Britain, government urged
LONDON — Iran’s attempts to murder and kidnap people on U.K. soil should be treated as attacks against Britain, the government has been warned. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) —...
View Article‘Neuron flashes’ drive Trump’s policy on Iran, says John Bolton
BERLIN — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on whether to join Israel and begin bombing Iran appears driven more by impulse and affirmation than by deliberate policy, warned former national...
View ArticleNetanyahu and Trump: Grandmaster beats dealmaker
Donald Trump doesn’t play chess, a game requiring patience and method. Trying to guess what goes through the U.S. president’s mind when making decisions is probably a fool’s errand. After all, many a...
View ArticleEuropean leaders clamor to be the G7’s Trump whisperer
KANANASKIS, Alberta — Keir Starmer’s team fancy their man as the foremost Trump whisperer at this week’s G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada. He’s not the only one vying for the title. The stakes could...
View ArticleTrump says Israeli strike on Iran ‘could very well happen’
President Donald Trump said Thursday that an Israeli strike on Iran “could very well happen” but declined to say if it was imminent and suggested he’d prefer to avoid it through ongoing nuclear...
View ArticleVoters are the only ones who could stop Trump’s tariff game
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WASHINGTON — So, it turns out U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t a master of the universe after all. And as the real masters — the bond vigilantes,...
View ArticleTrump’s Ukraine plan is ‘close to surrender,’ warns ex-adviser John Bolton
A former national security adviser to Donald Trump warned that the U.S. president’s proposed deal to end the war in Ukraine “comes pretty close to surrender” to Vladimir Putin’s objectives — and...
View ArticleLike it or not, the rules-based order is no more
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
View ArticleHow to survive a phone call with Donald Trump
LONDON — Few things in politics are as tricky as meeting Donald Trump. A half-hour phone call is one of them. Just like other world leaders, Keir Starmer is — still — waiting in line for his first...
View ArticleThe method in Trump’s Greenland madness
Donald Trump’s demand for Greenland is no 19th-century imperial throwback. Rather, it signals a hypermodern reality: a world transforming thanks to climate change, with China, Russia and the United...
View Article‘Terrifying’: Trump’s Cabinet picks trigger unease in Europe
BRUSSELS — At first, European diplomats even felt some relief about the shape of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s new Cabinet when he chose Florida Republican Marco Rubio to be America’s top...
View ArticleNATO allies try to get inside Trump’s head while in Washington
Officials from NATO countries are enjoying an extra perk of this year’s summit in Washington: easier access to members of Donald Trump’s inner circle. They have fanned out around town to meet with...
View ArticleTrump’s plan for NATO is emerging
Donald Trump has threatened to leave NATO so many times — or has appeared to, anyway — that for many of his critics, it’s a question of when, not whether, he’d ditch the 75-year-old alliance if he’s...
View ArticleBiden plans intel brief for Trump, despite his history with leaks
U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief Donald Trump on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified...
View ArticleThe prospect of a second Trump presidency has the intelligence community on edge
Former top officials from Donald Trump’s administration are warning he is likely to use a second term to overhaul the nation’s spy agencies in a way that could lead to an unprecedented level of...
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