Reposted by Daniel LarisonBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11hYou don't get to claim you are treating anything with "seriousness" after you assert that "narco-terrorist cartels are our hemisphere's ISIS." The further beclowning of US counterterrorism. 1624746
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 17hIt's very clear from @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social's book Crossing the Red Line that Biden's enabling of Israel's wars paved the way for everything Trump has done in the region. Biden shielded Israel from the consequences of its aggressive actions and abandoned diplomacy with Iran. He set the table 0163
Reposted by Daniel LarisonElizabeth Beavers @elizabethrb.bsky.social · 18hIs there anything more American than selling a book about how sad it made you to do war crimes 031
Reposted by Daniel LarisonIona Craig @ionacraig.com · 20hEndless gripe with English-speaking journalists, media and politicians. Houthi(s) is pronounced like the TH in Thursday. It is NOT Houtea or Houti, which seems to be the default. If you’re Irish, or speaking English with an Irish accent, you get a pass. Everyone else, you just sound ridiculous. 232
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 20hIt's the flip side of the hawkish tendency to blame the U.S. for "allowing" terrible things to happen in all the places where our government isn't very involved. In their view, the only things that the U.S. is never responsible for are the things that our government enables and supports. 051
Reposted by Daniel LarisonTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here. 111118168
Reposted by Daniel Larison#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 01/10/2026McGurk seems to be trying to defend Biden but is basically just admitting he folded. Fascinating. 1803
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He got so angry that he very nearly did the thing that he absolutely refused to do for more than two years. I don’t know that we should believe anything McGurk says, but this makes Biden look so much worse than he already did. 180
Reposted by Daniel LarisonChase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Embiggening the strategic failure 🫡 031
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You mean the 2027 timeline that China hawks cooked up through threat inflation? That 2027 timeline? 061
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026He doesn't ask them to do it. He just tells them. 031
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just when you thought it couldn't get any dumber... 050
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But he's not going to hire them to teach at any of the service academies. 010
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In other words, here come the rodeo clowns. 050
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"If Hegseth is influential, it is as a corrupting, baleful influence that brings shame and dishonor on the institution he leads." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-horrib...daniellarison.substack.comThe Horrible Pete HegsethI took it for granted that he would do whatever Trump wanted, no matter how outrageous or illegal it might be, and he has proved to be even more horrible than I expected. 041
Reposted by Daniel LarisonMitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Democratic party has a long way to go to get foreign policy right, especially in the Middle East, and MOST ESPECIALLY in Palestine. But this is a terrific sign of progress and a great illustration of why, for all their imperfections, it is IMPERATIVE that we get a Dem majority in the Senate. 0144
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Fairford "terror incident" feels like a lazy remake of Four Lions, but instead of being incompetent terrorists they are just a bunch of regular criminals mistaken for terrorists by incompetent government agents. 064
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It can't have been much of a "terror incident" in that case. 4327
Reposted by Daniel LarisonDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes" 451887384
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026After he blathers about Kim, he suggests that he would have attacked North Korea if he had been president when they didn't have nuclear weapons. He is faulting his predecessors for not waging preventive war in Korea. That is the truly scandalous and insane thing in this clip. 052
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The Iran war certainly should be the last war that the U.S. fights in this part of the world, but I don’t know why anyone would assume that this is the likely outcome." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-last-u...daniellarison.substack.comThe Last U.S. War in the Middle East?The Iran war certainly should be the last war that the U.S. fights in this part of the world, but I don’t know why anyone would assume that this is the likely outcome. 052
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Presumably Hegseth wants to see adjuncts fighting to the death in an arena. 370
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Their government might be willing to agree to more modest concessions if their side stands to gain something from it. Lee is right to focus on an achievable arms control goal of a freeze." daniellarison.substack.com/p/a-step-in-...daniellarison.substack.comA Step in the Right Direction on North KoreaLee is right to focus on an achievable arms control goal of a freeze. 030
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It should also be pointed out that the vast majority of the “defense” spending under consideration here has nothing to do with defending the country itself. 032
Reposted by Daniel LarisonThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash 281687510
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If nuclear-armed major powers decide that they're going to treat the UN Charter like garbage, there is regrettably nothing any other treaty can do to protect against that. 131
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's funny when outlets clearly sympathetic to Trump try to make him seem reasonable and interested in a diplomatic solution, and then he denounces them for it right away. 050
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The US won, and it will also win very soon. It just always happens to be losing in the present. 080
Reposted by Daniel LarisonVan Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a new essay out in Foreign Policy raising alarm and introspection about the geopolitical concept of “Greater North America”: "Is fascist geopolitics somehow unique? How, if at all, does liberal imperialism differ from fascist imperialism?” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...un-diplomatic.com“Greater North America” Is Fascist GeopoliticsEarlier this year, Pete Hegseth gave a speech at one of the new, imperialist multilateralism conferences the US now leads against the old liberal order. 0104
Reposted by Daniel LarisonKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's not the main reason that any future democratic administration needs to not hire Jake Sullivan (that would be his role in refusing to stop the flow of US weapons & funds into the genocide of Gaza) but him being this petty about accurate reporting is disqualifying alone 14912
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Assuming it is real, Biden's "no Santa in Israel, pal" line is a perfect example of how Biden could make a lot of noise about cutting off Israel while never lifting a finger to do that for any reason. He would berate Netanyahu in private, and then enable all of his crimes anyway. Truly pathetic 011
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Granted, it's John Bolton, but this is bizarre revisionism even for him. Trump *increased* support for the Saudis and the UAE in his first term. Biden started illegally bombing Yemen in 2024. What is he talking about? 151
Reposted by Daniel LarisonFrederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is what "Israel's operation in Rafah" did, entirely enabled by American bombs and support. Haaretz: "The proportion of structures that have been eradicated in Rafah and in Jabalya refugee camp is higher than what was destroyed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki." 131
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Johnson claims to be unaware of everything else happening in the world, but somehow he finds time to sound off on this. 030
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Task is better than Mare of Easttown, and it's not on the list. Including The Diplomat on this list is an insult to everyone's intelligence. Westworld is missing. 020
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It shouldn't baffle anyone at this point. It's a consistent pattern of admiring leaders he considers to be "strong" because they oppress and murder people, and he wants to be able to do the same. 351
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The rumor is just that, and it isn’t based on much. 031
Reposted by Daniel LarisonShibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. www.rfi.fr/en/middle-ea...rfi.frGaza suffers world's worst ever economic crisis: UNGaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. 15443
Reposted by Daniel LarisonWhitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English. 42103494407
Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In other words, it was a typical Trump summit. 000
Reposted by Daniel LarisonBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fun fact: After the pager attack, AOC got into a debate on Twitter with a certain former JAG employed by the NYTimes opinion page as to the lawfulness of the attack. AOC (making points similar to those in the Just Security piece) had by far the better argument. 0283