Jim Geraghty

NR senior political correspondent, Washington Post contributing columnist. Author. Three Martini Lunch podcast. Intermittent cable news talking head. #TJAMS

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A delightful piece from our Jennifer Tiedemann on... South of the Border, which we drove past yesterday.

"South of the Border is not some sort of nostalgia act. It is not kitsch for the sake of kitsch, camp for the sake of camp. It’s not meant to be studied. It is retro without a lick of postmodernist self-awareness; there’s no wink-and-a-nod, no “we know better now.” South of the Border is appreciated best when appreciated unironically, without a trace of cynicism. It’s a place of unbridled joy, and quintessentially American."

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Absolute chaos in Crimea as fuel has totally run out.

Drivers line up for days with no hope of enough to leave the penninsula.

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Team USA in the final minute:

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The USA driving into the World Cup like

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In our new issue: @rameshponnuru on the fights on the right, @jimgeraghty on nervous NATO, @AStuttaford on the birth-rate panic, @aroberts_andrew on Starmer’s trashing of tradition, new fiction from Cynthia Ozick, & more. 👇👇

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The countries on NATO’s eastern flank are nervous.

They’ve got a nuclear-armed dictator next door and a US president who keeps ripping into the transatlantic alliance.

@jimgeraghty reports from the ground in Finland, Latvia, and Poland.

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This sounds Iike a threat.

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Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.

Let’s make sure he’s also the last.

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@NoRunnyEggs @cdrsalamander This is what the embassies organizing the trip are calling themselves. I figure it's their call.

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Club Dread: On the Ground in NATO’s Nervous Eastern Flank https://t.co/zGn5SlKkjm

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BTW, thanks to NR Art Director Eric Sailer for both his cartography skills and recognizing the legitimate governing authority over the Crimean peninsula.

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The August issue of the print magazine is now online and on its way to your mailboxes and newsstands, featuring the long, detailed, sauna-describing report on my travels in Eastern Europe and Russia’s hybrid warfare against NATO.

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During that Fox and Friends interview, Trump lamented, “Iran is very good at publicity, but they’re not good at fighting. I took a look and, I must tell you, they can’t believe the press they’re getting. They can’t even believe it. And they told me, they said, it’s amazing how well we’re doing in the papers, we’re not doing so well.”

The president did not specify which Iranian official had been reviewing American newspapers and told him that they can’t believe how good their publicity and coverage is.

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When you write things that are critical of the president, his fans will often insist, “Don’t pay attention to what he says, pay attention to what he does.” But the president’s words matter. Last night, the president answered the phone call of New York Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos and declared regarding the conflict with Iran, “It’s pretty much all wrapped up.”

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When President Trump says, “They have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon,” note that Iran signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, pledging to never attempt to acquire or build a nuclear weapon, and has violated it repeatedly. As I noted in April, Iranian officials publicly brag about how easy it is to fool international inspectors, and how gullible their enemies are.

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Mehr News, a news organization run by the Iranian regime, published a report indicating the draft US-Iranian agreement includes 14 provisions.

If accurate — and it’s coming from the Iranians, through one of their state-run news agencies, so take it with copious grains of salt — points two, three, four, five, six, seven, ten, eleven, and 14 would represent major concessions by the U.S. government and its allies. Add them all up, and it would amount to something in the ballpark of an American surrender in the region.