Andreas Kluth

Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Previously editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global; 20 years at The Economist. Author of "Hannibal and Me." Opinions are my own.

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Trump has destroyed America’s relationships with its global allies, @andreaskluth says. Now that the Democrats have taken the House and the Senate, this is what they can do to stop him from going further 🎥

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Hegseth is the low-hanging peach of impeachments.

But then the hard work begins to stop the corruption and abuse of Trump's administration

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Especially after Starlink throttled its Ukrainian service, NATO allies worry about “kill switches” in those American weapons they’re using

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What may await Hegseth, Witkoff, Kushner, Vance and Rubio after the midterms.

And what may await us ....

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As during the Cold War, Washington could threaten to deploy new nukes while simultaneously urging talks to get rid of them altogether

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What does it mean to be human when intelligence is no longer part of the definition?

In the ontological contest between AI and German philosophers, the latter have broken into an early lead

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By cutting off the flow of fertilizer to the world's poorest countries, Trump's war in the Middle East will starve or stunt millions of people

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Hegseth, and America, could never control the message to jihadists or anybody else if they broadcast a live execution on the internet

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@opinion Correction: I meant Pillay, not Pillar, obviously

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The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Navi Pillar for her defense of international law, just as Trump is waging war against it
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Smart people explained to Pete Hegseth that America needs to move from 'exquisite' to 'attritable' weapons

Then Hegseth fired them ...

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On foreign policy, Trump has lived down to the expectations of his most pessimistic skeptics and broken every promise he gave or implied to his base

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In the 2020s as in the 1930s, the Great Powers are on a collision course and trying to compensate with lots and lots of meetings

The great economist Wilhelm Röpke had a word for this: "Conferencitis"

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Trump is doing his best to make the United Nations irrelevant in making peace, so he can blame it for being ... irrelevant

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An out-of-control AI contest, like a nuclear war, cannot be won, and must never be fought

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You know the US has a problem when it's the only country to oppose a cartographical change at the United Nations

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Putin wages hybrid war against NATO countries like Germany in part to expose their fear of punishing him

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Tactical Nukes Are a Gateway Drug to Armageddon
Stopping a new nuclear arms race must be high on Trump and Xi’s agenda says @andreaskluth https://t.co/okOuBIbEwO

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The US would be disastrously wrong to field tactical nukes to deter China in the Taiwan Strait.

Trump and Xi must talk about when they meet this month

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Trump is surrendering in slow motion to America's most menacing adversaries, such as China and North Korea.
And he doesn't even know it....

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