#robertkagan — Public Fediverse posts
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Who is left to alienate?
"This conflict has revealed in America that is unreliable and incapable of finishing what it started. Defeat for the United States, therefore, is not only possible, but likely."
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#America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
By #RobertKagan #USA #donaldtrump #theatlantic
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Robert Kagan Predicts Trump 2026 Dictatorship: The Midterm Threat
Robert Kagan Predicts Trump 2026 Dictatorship as he warns that Trump will meddle in the 2026 midterms to avoid a Democrat-led impeachment.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/2026/02/robert-kagan-predicts-trump-2026-dictatorship/
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Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in #Ukraine - #TheAtlantic #robertkagan
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"The Post's loss...
Is The Atlantic's gain. Two veteran writers who resigned from The Washington Post over its non-endorsement decision are joining The Atlantic. Robert Kagan and Danielle Allen are both coming aboard as contributing writers."
~ Brian Stelter
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #Trump #EconomicElites #RobertKagan #DanielleAllen #Atlantic
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1730465718791a55b8c6c4bb2/raw
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“'Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,' he said on Saturday. 'Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.'”
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
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"Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day that the Amazon founder killed a plan to support Harris was proof of the backroom deal."
~ Lily Mae Lazarus
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #RobertKagan
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And from #Mediaite:
#WashingtonPost editor-at-large #RobertKagan resigned on Friday over the newspaper’s decision not to endorse #KamalaHarris.
While a number of staff are reportedly angry & considering exiting the paper over the decision, Kagan’s resignation is particularly notable not just because of his standing at the publication, but because of his ties to #Republican #politics.
#democracy #FourthEstate #journalism #media #acquiescence #WaPo
https://www.mediaite.com/news/washington-post-editor-at-large-robert-kagan-resigns-over-papers-decision-not-to-endorse-kamala-harris/ -
Colleagues were said to be "shocked" & uniformly negative. Editor-at-large #RobertKagan, who has been highly critical of #Trump as #autocratic, told NPR he had #resigned from the #EditorialBoard as a consequence.
Fmr #WashingtonPost Executive Editor Martin Baron, who led the newsroom to acclaim during #Trump's presidency, denounced the decision starkly.
#democracy #FourthEstate #journalism #media #acquiescence #WaPo
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A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
#TrumpDictatorship #2024Election #Inevitable #StopPretending #WashingtonPost #RobertKagan #Politics #News
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Phew. Finally finished “The Ghost At The Feast: America and The Collapse of World Order 1900-1941” by Robert Kagan -- like an extensive history course. Really amazing book. #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan
I did not know that Robert Kagan's wife is Victoria Nuland. #history -
“Above all, it would have required self-understanding, a recognition early on that they would not tolerate a shift in the balance of power in favor of global dictatorships and therefore should work consistently to ensure that the risks of such a shift were kept to a minimum”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#bookstodon #theghostAtthefeast #robertkagan #history #pastisprologue -
“from the global perspective, appeasement of “the bandit nations” anywhere only strengthened the forces of aggressive fascism everywhere.”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
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“What is America but millionaires, beauty queens, stupid records and Hollywood?”
—Adolf Hitler quoted in Compton, Swastika and the Eagle.#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan #WWII #history #AmericanHistory #pastisprologueI am loathe to quote Hitler, but this is too good—AND as President Joe Biden, said at his State of the Union speech: those who wish the United States ill should know "it's never ever a good bet to bet against America".
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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1941Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Maintaining Freedom of the Seas,” Fireside Chat #18, Sept.11, 1941 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/_resources/images/msf/msfb0004
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#fdr #wwii #bookstodon #theGhostAtTheFeast #robertKagan #pastisprologue #roosevelt #history #americanHistory -
‘Even if the United States faced no immediate threat of military attack, Roosevelt warned in his January 1940 State of the Union address, the world would be a “shabby and dangerous place to live in—yes, even for Americans to live in” if it were ruled “by force in the hands of a few.”’
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
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“I have a horrible feeling of seeing…a civilization dying even before its actual death….How delicate a fabric this thing we call modern civilization really is.”
Franklin Roosevelt close adviser, Adolf Berle, writing in his diary on occasion of the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact, August 1939—Berle, a year before, had regarded fears of Hitler’s intentions as overblown.
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastisprologue #isolationism
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The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#theGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #americanhistory #fdr #pastisprologue #DefendDemocracy #bookstodon -
“These are not normal times; people are jumpy and very ready to run after strange gods.”
—Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt to Elihu Root in Elliott Roosevelt, ed., F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928–1945”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan#TheGhostattheFeast
#RobertKagan
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1933 could be 2023–it’s the same:
“Although cautious about challenging the democracies prematurely, Hitler could also be bold and opportunistic. He looked for weaknesses to exploit and early on perceived that the Western powers lacked the determination and coherence to defend their order.”
#TheGhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #pastIsPrologue #PutinIsHitler
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“It was neither “feasible” nor “desirable” when the peace of the entire world was at stake and when the democracies were threatened by “autocratic governments backed by organized force.” The United States could never trust such a government or treat it as a friend.
#TheGhostattheFeast
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PM Llyod George to the House of Commons, Dec 1916: British response to Wilson settlement proposal: "..quoted from Abraham Lincoln’s speech to a war-weary nation in the summer of 1864: 'We accepted this war for an object, and a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God I hope it will never end until that time.'”
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#PastIsPrologue
#GhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #LlyodGeorge #WWI #WoodrowWilson #lincoln #Ukraine #bookstodon -
“For six months I have talked about the struggle between Autocracy and Democracy, but do not see that I have made any great impression.”
Excerpt From
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert KaganRobert Lansing, Secretary of State from June 24, 1915, until February 13, 1920.
"What's past is prologue"
#ThenAsNow #PastIsPrologue
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“Many had believed [..] that in the new age of interconnected economies and technological miracles “‘certain kinds of cruelty and violence could never occur on a large scale again.’”
This, referring to the atrocities of World War I.
Eerie. Different—but the same.
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#GhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #WWI #technology #cruelty #crueltyisthepoint