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Kori Schake
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Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/

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Kori N. Schake is an American international relations scholar currently serving as Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has held several high-level positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign. Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She serves on the board of advisors of Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Alexander Hamilton Society. Schake is a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. .. more

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · Aug 27
I just received my first copy of the book!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump: "I just spoke to the president of Venezuela and informed her that we're going to be opening up all commercial airspace over Venezuela. American citizens will be very shortly able to go to Venezuela and they will be safe there. It's under very strong control."

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h
The 2026 National Defense Strategy “appears to have been drafted not by serious people but by Pentagon officials eager to curry favor with an imperious president and terrified of getting their talking points wrong,” Eliot Cohen argues.
Whatever This Is, It Is Not Strategy
Defending the nation will take more than sycophancy, slurs, and slop.
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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 8h
Opinion: Perhaps most troubling, the National Defense Strategy ties its framework explicitly to “President Trump’s vision,” mentioning him 47 times across 24 pages.
America can strike anywhere — but can it stay anywhere?
Opinion: Perhaps most troubling, the National Defense Strategy ties its framework explicitly to “President Trump’s vision,” mentioning him 47 times across 24 pages.
www.defensenews.com

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 9h
"It is embarrassing enough that we now threaten ... our closest allies, or that we try to seize land from an ally that has fought on our behalf. But it is beyond shameful and despicable to denigrate and disrespect their sacrifice as Trump has done."

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Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?
A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
www.defenseone.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 11h
Yes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.
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ALT: a man with glasses is covering his face with his hand .
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21h
There are multiple declines that have been set in motion by the Trump presidency that will take years to fully manifest and will be too late to stop by the time people figure it out.

Trump pushing Canada to open up its auto market to Chinese EVs is one such example.
Canada Allowing the Import of Cheap Chinese EVs Has GM CEO Nervous: TDS
GM CEO Mary Barra sees Chinese EVs in Canada as a risk to North American auto manufacturing.
www.thedrive.com

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21h
Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reno, 1598-99, 📸 by Jose Manuel Alvarez Rey

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
"I was in Afghanistan after 13 years of war—long after the exciting newness wore off and as domestic political opposition raged—and we still had Czech, Lithuanian, and Polish special forces, as well as conventional Australian, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, and Romanian units with us in Kandahar."
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COMMENTARY: Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we? | A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?
A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
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Defense One @defenseone.bsky.social · 1d
COMMENTARY: Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we? | A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?
A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
We got the former heads of international finance at both the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to write a guest post for @alphaville.ft.com about what Trump is doing to the dollar.

They were … unimpressed. www.ft.com/content/0933...
Termites are slowly feasting away at the foundations of the dollar’s dominance
Chomp chomp chomp
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@ghoshworld @ghoshworld.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: There is no Iranian equivalent for Venezuela's Delcy Rodriguez, ready and willing to take over in Tehran and make a deal with the Trump administration

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There Is No Iranian Delcy Rodríguez
Regime decapitation in Tehran would likely produce a more hardline leadership—not a compliant successor
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
Shame.
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under grilling from Duckworth, Rubio defends Trump's comments denigrating the service of American's NATO allies in Afghanistan

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
under grilling from Duckworth, Rubio defends Trump's comments denigrating the service of American's NATO allies in Afghanistan

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 1d
There is a difference between having the capability/capacity to defend Europe versus having the specific capabilities to execute existing NATO doctrine.

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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 1d
Flags honoring Danish veterans killed in Afghanistan had been removed by staff at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen, sparking public outcry.
Flags honoring Danish troops at US embassy reinstalled after outcry
Flags honoring Danish veterans killed in Afghanistan had been removed by staff at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen, sparking public outcry.
www.defensenews.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
"Winning a physical fight isn’t the same as winning an argument.” @owasow.bsky.social
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 1d
“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link
Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State
www.nytimes.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d
Hanna Hvozdiar, advisor to the Ukrainian defence minister very blunt on Ukrainian drone use (at EDA conf): “The drone is just an answer to the lack of ammunition.”

Good reminder that in war it’s about what works. Not more, not less.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 1d
“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link
Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State
www.nytimes.com

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 1d
8/The real Thucydides Trap is not about relative power (Athens/Sparta) but the hubris of ones own power. Athens had built a cooperative system that made it the center of an empire. When it chose to squeeze that system, it broke from the center.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Twilight of America’s Financial Empire
Like ancient Athens, the United States risks using its financial power to alienate allies and precipitate its own downfall in the process.
www.foreignaffairs.com

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 1d
Ph.D.s in STEM, Health Roles Fled Federal Research Agencies Last Year
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Ph.D.s in STEM, Health Roles Fled Federal Agencies
The number of Ph.D. holders in STEM and health roles leaving 14 federal research agencies outnumbered hires 11 to 1 last year, according to a Science analysis of White House Office of Personnel Manage...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d
“Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform,” and “if we continue to show disdain for our allies … we may find ourselves fighting alone someday,” William H. McRaven argues.
Never Fight Alone
Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.
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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d
Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.
dominicervolina.com Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 2d
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis

ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone

They did not have a warrant

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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 2d
Unlike past iterations, the Trump administration’s recently released National Defense Strategy alienates traditional U.S. allies and partners rather than strengthening ties with them, Ana Janaina Nelson writes.
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Means ‘America Alone’
Unlike past iterations of the NDS, the Trump administration’s strategy alienates ties with allies and partners instead of strengthening them.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
"Is it feared? Perhaps...Is it respected? Well, not really. Not when it has strayed from the ideals and values that actually did ‘make America great’. And is it hated more than ever? Absolutely.” Important piece from @mpolymer1.bsky.social
After American exceptionalism
For decades, American power was underpinned by ideals that inspired allies and adversaries alike. But the 'City on the Hill' now shines less brightly.
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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 2d
An Afghan refugee family flees America. One member served as an intelligence officer in the US-backed security services, working closely with American spy agencies. They feel so unsafe here they left for the UK, which granted them asylum.

www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...
They sought asylum for helping U.S. forces fight the Taliban. Now they’re fleeing Trump’s America
An Afghan family fled death threats in their home country. But for them, the U.S. is no longer safe.
www.sfchronicle.com

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 2d
Trump 🌮 tracker c/o Bloomberg

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 2d
Reading some of the new data sharing "barrier removal SWOT team" directives coming out of the US DoD on AI ... this trajectory should perhaps give some cause for concern to allies who share intelligence data ....

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 2d
The obvious consequence of Trump's imperial pretentions: more and more hedging and rebalancing: www.wsj.com/economy/trad...