Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

CFR fellow, WaPo columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND. NYT bestseller & NYT 10 best books of 2024. Mainly on Bluesky.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Though I have fewer illusions about America than I did growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remain eternally grateful to my mother and grandmother for bringing me to the United States, and thankful to America for taking us in. I cannot imagine how awful my life would have been in Russia. For me, America remains a beacon of freedom and opportunity — a tarnished beacon, to be sure, but one that may shine more brightly in the future. https://t.co/0g5nFKic2j

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

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[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

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[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Though I have fewer illusions about America than I did growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remain eternally grateful to my mother and grandmother for bringing me to the United States, and thankful to America for taking us in. I cannot imagine how awful my life would have been in Russia. For me, America remains a beacon of freedom and opportunity — a tarnished beacon, to be sure, but one that may shine more brightly in the future. https://t.co/0g5nFKic2j

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Though I have fewer illusions about America than I did growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I remain eternally grateful to my mother and grandmother for bringing me to the United States, and thankful to America for taking us in. I cannot imagine how awful my life would have been in Russia. For me, America remains a beacon of freedom and opportunity — a tarnished beacon, to be sure, but one that may shine more brightly in the future. https://t.co/0g5nFKic2j

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Ukraine targets Russian oil facilities to reduce funding for the Russian war machine. Russia targets Ukrainian civilians to terrorize them into surrender. This is a battle of good vs evil. https://t.co/wVCMay1rdR

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 officers who were selected to become generals and admirals. About half of the officers whose promotions were derailed are women or minorities, even though 74% of all officers are white and nearly 80% are men. https://t.co/CVtkYMjnRp

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

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.

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

While Hegseth claims he is all about making the armed forces more “lethal,” the military had no better success in achieving its objectives in the Iran war than it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. His policies are actually undermining the military by compromising its professionalism. https://t.co/CVtkYMjnRp

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"Hegseth’s purges are only a small part of his larger project to impose a MAGA agenda on the military," @MaxBoot writes. https://t.co/sxZJTO5JY0

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Hegseth has blocked the promotions of at least 40 officers who were selected to become generals and admirals. About half of the officers whose promotions were derailed are women or minorities, even though 74% of all officers are white and nearly 80% are men. https://t.co/CVtkYMjnRp

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

While Hegseth claims he is all about making the armed forces more “lethal,” the military had no better success in achieving its objectives in the Iran war than it did in Iraq and Afghanistan. His policies are actually undermining the military by compromising its professionalism. https://t.co/CVtkYMjnRp

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

In light of JD Vance’s comments excusing Nixon’s criminality, I am reposting my 2022 column arguing Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon. That action created a climate of impunity for presidential misconduct. https://t.co/4xkLfOzLso

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

These soldiers are not just heroes of Ukraine. They are heroes of Western civilization. They are fighting so that the rest of us can live in freedom and without fear.

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[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Trump promised to start winning wars again. How’s that going? He just concluded a war with Iran, and the only people who think the US won are on the administration’s payroll. Even some of them probably harbor secret doubts. That may be why Marco Rubio is letting JD Vance take the lead in selling this dog’s breakfast. https://t.co/2hyd1jPNQQ

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

After bombing the country for 40 days (Feb. 28-April 8), Trump achieved considerably less than President Obama did with his nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, after not bombing Iran at all. https://t.co/71M68Aomfi

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

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[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

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[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Trump promised to start winning wars again. How’s that going? He just concluded a war with Iran, and the only people who think the US won are on the administration’s payroll. Even some of them probably harbor secret doubts. That may be why Marco Rubio is letting JD Vance take the lead in selling this dog’s breakfast. https://t.co/2hyd1jPNQQ

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

After bombing the country for 40 days (Feb. 28-April 8), Trump achieved considerably less than President Obama did with his nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, after not bombing Iran at all. https://t.co/71M68Aomfi

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

The proper takeaway from this mess isn’t that Trump should have continued fighting until the Iranians cried “Uncle.” That would never have happened. The right lesson is that we should never have launched this war in the first place. https://t.co/71M68Aomfi

[Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot]

Trump promised to start winning wars again. How’s that going? He just concluded a war with Iran, and the only people who think the US won are on the administration’s payroll. Even some of them probably harbor secret doubts. That may be why Marco Rubio is letting JD Vance take the lead in selling this dog’s breakfast. https://t.co/2hyd1jPNQQ