“There’s no better way to get us into a war, perhaps a catastrophic war, than essentially poking out your eyes and numbing your brain, and you’re left with Donald Trump and a few people sitting in the White House winging it, and they’re not competent to wing it,” said Steven Cash, a former intelligence officer […]
Initially founded in 2016, The Steady State is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization of more than 270 former senior national security professionals, including former officials from the CIA, FBI, Departments of State, Defense, Justice and Homeland Security. Drawing on deep expertise across national security disciplines including intelligence, diplomacy, military affairs, and law, we advocate for […]
The peaceful and prosperous decades since the Second World War – which present such a contrast to the catastrophic interwar period – testify to the wisdom of US leaders and their understanding of enlightened self-interest. Unfortunately, President Trump has quickly sought to destroy the long-established foundations of U.S. economic prosperity and leadership. In October 2024, […]
Wary of the consequences of taking positions in the media, former US intelligence officials have adopted a more low-key strategy. Not just to carry more weight, but also to protect themselves from reprisals. Published on 17/02/2025 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes Raphaël Ramos US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after […]
Wary of the consequences of taking positions in the media, former US intelligence officials have adopted a more low-key strategy. Not just to carry more weight, but also to protect themselves from reprisals. Published on 17/02/2025 at 04:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes Raphaël Ramos US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after […]
It will be an arch humiliation for the U.S. President to lend his signature to a document such as is being “negotiated” by male ingenue and envoy-in-training Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is being masterfully played in his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He seems not to have the vaguest notion of what he is being […]
In September 1938, the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and France signed an agreement in Munich with Hitler and Mussolini. That has gone down in history as a synonym for ultimately catastrophic disgrace — a counterproductive effort to appease an insatiable dictator. Less than a year later, the Second World War broke out. Beginning […]
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