Despicable

How do leaders wage war or end conflicts when ordinary voters have a different preference?

Elizabeth N. Saunders launches her latest book, w/ commentary from
Kori Schake 🌻🇺🇦 @kschake.bsky.social Michael O'Hanlon Edward Luce & EJ Dionne.

Next Monday at 10:30 AM Eastern.
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The UK’s National Union of Students has voted to expel the Union of Jewish Students.

This is gobsmacking antisemitism on full display.

If you don’t see where this hate is heading at this point, you’re willfully blind. Shameful.
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Hard truths from Edward Luce

'Biden needs to bear one thing in mind: what's good for Netanyahu is also good for Putin, and therefore for Trump.' Me on why Putin is the biggest geopolitical beneficiary of the Gaza chaos. ft.com/content/368207…

Kristi Noem's self-destruction is mesmerisingly entertaining. And there's more to come.

OMG London’s Garrick Club is accepting women members. Whatever next: a Labour government?

Blindingly clear Netanyahu doesn't want this war to end yet most attention is directed at anything other than this central fact.

major French outreach to Britain going on. Once a Labour government is in office later this year, Macron might have a willing partner

don't think I've ever laughed as much conducting an interview

US says defence deal with Saudi Arabia is not possible without Israel, Jake Sullivan tells Edward Luce in an interview at the #FTWeekendFestival ft.com/content/8f5b64…

Hugely looking forward to being in conversation with Bradley Whitford at the FT Festival at the Kennedy Center today - one of Hollywood's finest.

'A second Trump term would likely spell the end of the west as an organizing idea on the world stage.' Me on why Europe should brace for Trump. ft.com/content/60df8c…

Tomorrow at #FTWeekendFestival , FT columnist Edward Luce leads a conversation with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that promises to be illuminating and informative.

#SpeakersOfSubstance #Moderators #Geopolitics #GlobalAffairs

“His threat to fire Powell is in earnest. It was Trump who originally nominated Powell in 2017 and believes that his loyalty was betrayed. There are few things worse in Trump’s moral universe than an ungrateful lieutenant.” ~via Edward Luce
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Biden’s comments strike the right balance - protecting the right to dissent while upholding public safety.

Unsurprisingly, Edward Luce's take on the campus protests is by some distance the best and most sophisticated I have read.

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It would be far more worrying if the young were indifferent to the deaths of thousands of children…..
Thoughtful column by Edward Luce about campus protests ft.com/content/198902… via @ft