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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Great timing. Trump is aligning himself with North Korea while it’s sending more men and missiles to help Russia attack Ukraine.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A report from an alternative universe where Trump’s poll numbers haven’t cratered and he hasn’t lost the Iran war.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Count me as super skeptical this will ever happen.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Remember, stupidity always brings losing and death.” If someone tweeted this about Trump, the Secret Service would be investigating.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Talk about a spectacularly wrong prediction! Lindsey Graham lobbied Trump to attack Iran with an absurdly optimistic timeline. I don’t know a single serious Mideast or military expert who expected that Iran would capitulate, or its government would fall, after a month of U.S. and Israeli bombing!

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The US-Saudi agreement was signed yesterday without the Saudis joining the Abraham Accord and with permission for them to enrich uranium. Is Trump breaking the deal after less than a day? Or is this just another meaningless social media post that is detached from reality? 🤔

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Some administration officials can’t even wait to end one war before starting another. No doubt dropping a few bombs on Mali will solve the problem, just like it did in Iran. Not!

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This goes to show what I wrote on Monday: that, even though it’s not possible to hold elections in wartime, Ukraine remains a democracy. Zelensky listens to, rather than represses, protesters. This is why Ukraine will win—because of the strength of its civil society. wapo.st/4wcqOQt

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Somehow I doubt this threat will deter a regime that in January killed thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of its own people to stay in power.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

To use a technical military term, we are up a creek without a paddle. Trump has no good military option to open the Strait of Hormuz. Talking on MS NOW.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Very fair criticism from former British defense secretary.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is it real life or Saturday Night Life? At this point it’s hard to tell. Colin Jost can just replay this and the audience will be in stitches.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trump is trying to avoid the choice he faces: Is he going to allow Iran to charge a toll on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz or is he going to escalate militarily? My take on CNN International.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Trump isn’t making much progress toward ending the Iran war or ending the Iranian nuclear program. My take on CNN.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Hegseth can’t defeat Iran, but he will win the battle against facial hair come hell or high water.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Important if Trump means it. Although I fear a lot of Ukrainians will die before it can start making its own Patriots. It’s imperative for other countries to send their stockpiles to Ukraine as an interim measure.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Trump on Iranian leaders June 16 (“smart people”) vs Trump on Iranian leaders today (“scum”). Who knows what he will be saying tomorrow?

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Trump not knowing what’s in America’s foundational texts is very on-brand.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

MAGA can’t decide if Europe is run by Communists or Islamists.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Trump probably doesn’t realize you’re not supposed to give political speeches to uniformed military audiences. Vance does and he doesn’t care. So annoying. He thinks he can cross the line because he turns it into a big joke. That’s not how this works.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Unbelievable how Trump can turn any speech into an attack on US allies. How about criticizing Russia for a change?

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Leaders fighting forever wars don’t usually come out and admit it.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hard to follow Trump’s “logic,” as usual. Is he suggesting that Xi Jinping WANTS more Chinese people to become American citizens? More likely Xi wants Chinese people to stay home rather than suffer a brain drain to America.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Honestly not as bad as I feared. But Pulte has no business being DNI.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I’m sure Trump will catch the vandals desecrating the Reflecting Pool just about the time that Captain Queeg catches the thieves who absconded with his strawberries.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I don’t know if President Trump is capable of being humble, but the outcome of the Iran war should be a humbling experience. Speaking on CNN International.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Trump is paying Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz—which was already open before he launched this war. Speaking on CNN International.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This doesn’t happen very often but Trump is right.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just imagine how Fox News and the Republicans would react if Obama or Biden were praising the hardline Iranian leadership like this. 🫣

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m sure the Lebanese are overjoyed to see Trump inciting Syria to renew its attempts to dominate their country (whose independence Syria only recognized in 2008).

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The “deal” Trump is negotiating with Iran is just an attempt to escape the quagmire in which he has ensnared the entire world—beginning with his ill-fated decision to leave the nuclear accord in 2018. Speaking on CNN.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One of the supposed adults in the cabinet saying one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump tried to tank the global economy with tariffs. He failed because China and then the Supreme Court made him back down. But now he’s trying again with the Iran war. What did voters think would happen when they gave the worst president in history a second chance at the job?

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Trump in 2016 and Trump today.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good thing Trump loves inflation because he will see a lot more of it if he escalates the war with Iran.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Imagine what Republicans would have said if Biden or Obama had said they would be honored to meet the supreme leader of Iran or said he had a “very good reputation.” This is the leader of the brutal regime Trump said he wanted to overthrow!

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Trump confirms what I wrote this morning—that he is taking a wrecking ball to our alliances. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? He’s more exercised about windmills than Putin’s aggression! wapo.st/4viqXkt

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Trump is terrible at fighting wars but he’s very good at manipulating the stock market.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Another illegal, extrajudicial killing by the US military.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Is Trump aware that Turkey, Egypt and Jordan already have diplomatic relations with Israel? What does it mean for them to sign onto the Abraham Accords? 🤔 And incidentally zero chance the Saudis, Qataris or Pakistanis will sign on given Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My sense is that Trump is getting spooked by right-wing criticism and is trying to toughen the deal (which currently delivers ways less than Obama’s JCPOA), possibly scuttling it.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Horrible. Putin is a war criminal.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I wouldn’t call this “brutal honesty”—more like “brutal boasting”—because we don’t know if it’s true. Very little transparency about Venezuelan oil sales. What if anything is the US making? We need more information.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Interesting to see even Netanyahu and U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee condemning Itamar Ben Gvir’s mistreatment of the pro-Palestinian flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces. Yet this far right extremist remains security minister.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I bet Xi is a lot less impressed by Trump than Trump is by Xi. Oh to be a fly on the wall when Xi talks with his closest associates about Trump.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

China is happy to let Trump twist in the wind and deal with the consequences of his own reckless war of choice. Speaking on MS NOW.

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