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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trump more than any of his predecessors has consistently launched airstrikes on a country he purports to care nothing about and without any obvious goal. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Tom Stevenson | Why is Trump bombing Somalia?

Over the past twenty months, the US has launched airstrikes in Somalia using MQ-9 Reaper drones and sometimes manned...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/05/2026

‘As with Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is not yet widely acknowledged to have been a crime rather than just a mistake, but even the political establishment in the West sees it as a cautionary tale.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the forever war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Stevenson · We were doing well when I left: America’s Afghanistan Delusion

Many of those who had been involved in the war’s inception saw the chaotic Nato withdrawal in August 2021 as a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/05/2026

‘In British security circles and beyond, rearmament funded by cuts to public services has become orthodoxy posing as bold dissidence.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on UK-US relations, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

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Tom Stevenson | Dependency Culture

Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ‘special...

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Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Contrary to 90% plus of what one hears on the subject, the assessment of the US and of Israel for more than two decades has been that Iran does NOT have an active nuclear weapons program" – @tomstevenson.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4b6lXsb

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/03/2026

Issue 48.05 is now online, featuring: Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Windsor Susan Pedersen on Epstein Nicholas Spice on Schubert @shreir.bsky.social on Chantal Akerman @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the war on Iran and Joanna Biggs on Solvej Balle. Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 07/03/2026

‘Claims that Iran must be prevented from having a nuclear weapon can have nothing to do with the rationale for war except as emotionally potent misdirection. A more plausible immediate motivation for the war was vulgar opportunism.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on Iran: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Stevenson · Iran, Week One

It is tempting to frame the attack of 28 February as a spectacular aberration, an act of criminal aggression that could...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/01/2026

‘The cultural and ethnic heterogeneity of northern Syria was a good reason for political autonomy from Damascus. But whatever happens, the days of the SDF as a multiethnic coalition are over.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the end of Rojava, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

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Tom Stevenson | The End of Rojava

The Syrian government’s effort to take full control of the north-east clearly has the approval of the United States....

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/01/2026

In the final episode of our ‘Aftershock’ podcast, @danielsoar.bsky.social is joined by Patrick Cockburn, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social and @tomstevenson.bsky.social for a live discussion. What is the legacy of America’s ‘forever wars’ in the Middle East? Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Podcast Episode · Aftershock: The War on Terror · EP6 · 37m

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/01/2026

‘The US desire to annex Greenland is traceable to at least 1867 and the ambitions of the secretary of state William H. Seward, who negotiated the Alaska purchase that same year.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on Trump’s Greenland fixation, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

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Tom Stevenson | Don’t crack your teeth

The US desire to annex Greenland is traceable to at least 1867 and the ambitions of the secretary of state William H....

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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The @financialtimes.com columnist @edwardluce.bsky.social has argued that in annexing Greenland, the US ‘would kill Nato in one swoop’. But would it? Trump appears to think Europe’s leaders are cowed enough to accept even this. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

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Tom Stevenson | Don’t crack your teeth

‘The US needs Greenland for the purpose of national security,’ Donald Trump has said. ‘Anything less’ than ‘...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/01/2026

Issue 48.01 is now online, featuring: @tomstevenson.bsky.social on Xi Jinping David Runciman on Kamala Harris’s memoir Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Auden and Eliot Chal Ravens on Britney Spears Tony Wood on Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and a cover by Jon McNaught. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10/01/2026

‘During the Cold War, US-sponsored regime change was most often carried out at arm’s length. The kidnapping of Maduro seems to follow an older model, closer to the gunboat diplomacy which saw US troops occupy Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua between 1900 and 1934.’ Tony Wood www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tony Wood · On Venezuela

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...

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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

On the anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, the White House issued a proclamation celebrating trade deals in Latin America and the restoration of ‘privileged access through the Panama Canal’. The US, it said, would always decide destiny in ‘our hemisphere’. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Tom Stevenson | Detrimental Outside Influence

Last week, the US published its new National Security Strategy (one is produced each presidential term; this is Trump’...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/09/2025

Our new issue 47.16 is now online, featuring: @tomstevenson.bsky.social in El Salvador Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker Seamus Perry on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch and Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere. Read online at lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/09/2025

‘Calling himself the “coolest dictator in the world”, the restorer of the state monopoly on violence has replaced the state and seized the monopoly for himself.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social on El Salvador under Nayib Bukele: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Stevenson · The Mask Is Off: Bukele’s Prison State

Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/08/2025

‘A friend was reading to me one day from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴 and I misheard a line as “the senses have wind.” They did, they do.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory

It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...

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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Iran's nuclear programme is mainly a diversionary justification for this attack - not a motive.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/06/2025

Issue 47.11 is now online, featuring: William Davies on right-wing TikTok Andrew O’Hagan on Joan Didion Tom Crewe on Ocean Vuong Francesca Wade on the librarian Belle da Costa Greene Jenny Turner on Olga Tokarczuk and a cover by Lola Bunting. Read online at www.lrb.co.uk

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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, modelled the climatic effects of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan in 2025. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Tom Stevenson | Across the Line of Control

In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/11/2024

‘The problem with painting Trump as the harbinger of the end of an enlightened international order is that it prompts the question of what that order is really like.’ Tom Stevenson on Trump and US power, online early from our next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Stevenson · Exquisite Americana

The problem with painting Trump as the harbinger of the end of an enlightened international order is that it prompts the...

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Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

In the new LRB, I wrote about how Israel has replaced much of Gaza with an uneven igneous landscape of black-grey mounds. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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