From Responsible Statecraft <[email protected]>
Subject The Latest from Responsible Statecraft 07/15/2025
Date July 15, 2025 12:05 PM
  Links have been removed from this email. Learn more in the FAQ.
  Links have been removed from this email. Learn more in the FAQ.
View this email in your browser ([link removed])
[link removed]
Analysis ([link removed]) Reporting ([link removed]) Qiosk ([link removed]) About ([link removed])




** How Trump's 50-day deadline threat against Putin will backfire ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Jennifer Kavanagh on Jul 15, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image In the first six months of his second term, President Donald Trump has demonstrated his love for three things: deals, tariffs, and ultimatums.
Read in browser » ([link removed])





** Why new CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper is as wrong as the old one ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By A.J. Manuzzi on Jul 15, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image If accounts ([link removed]) of President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iranian nuclear facilities this past month are to be believed, the president’s initial impulse to stay out of the Israel-Iran conflict failed to survive the prodding of hawkish advisers, chiefly U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) chief Michael Kurilla.
Read in browser » ([link removed])





** Russia sanctions & new weapons, is Trump stuck in Groundhog Day? ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Ian Proud on Jul 14, 2025 08:58 am
Featured Image President Trump finds himself in a rerun of his first term on Ukraine policy. Declawed by lawmakers in D.C. and forced to push policies that worsen the U.S. relationship with Russia.
Read in browser » ([link removed])





** Blob exploiting Trump's anger with Putin, risking return to Biden's war ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Eldar Mamedov on Jul 11, 2025 02:46 pm
Featured Image Donald Trump’s recent outburst ([link removed]) against Vladimir Putin — accusing the Russian leader of "throwing a pile of bullsh*t at us" and threatening devastating new sanctions — might be just another Trumpian tantrum.
Read in browser » ([link removed])





** The 8-point buzzsaw facing any invasion of Taiwan ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Dan Grazier on Jul 11, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image For the better part of a decade, China has served as the “pacing threat” around which American military planners craft defense policy and, most importantly, budget decisions.
Read in browser » ([link removed])





** The Pentagon spent $4 trillion over 5 years. Contractors got 54% of it. ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By William Hartung on Jul 10, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Advocates of ever-higher Pentagon spending frequently argue that we must throw more money at the department to “support the troops.” But recent budget proposals and a new research paper ([link removed]) issued by the Quincy Institute and the Costs of War Project at Brown University suggest otherwise.
Read in browser » ([link removed])



============================================================
Copyright © 2025 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
2000 Pennsylvania Ave NW Ste 7000
Washington, DC 20006-1921
USA

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences ([link removed])
or ** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
.
Screenshot of the email generated on import

Message Analysis