Dan DePetris
Syndicated foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
- Negotiate over what? Its own demise?
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisCommentary: President Donald Trump hasn’t given us a clue about what he aims to accomplish in Cuba. “It doesn’t have to be a humanitarian crisis,” Trump said over the weekend.
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisIn 2023, Polish police discovered a network of more than a dozen single-use agents, some of whom were recruited to put up flyers and stickers that read “Poland ≠ Ukraine” and “NATO go home.” The goal? To get people to question the state’s support for Ukraine. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/diLOUz
- Trump to Iran: Give me your nuclear program, which I “obliterated” eight months ago. 🤔
- Already tired of the Olympics.
- Perhaps Brett McGurk can address this during his next CNN segment?
- "The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'" www.reuters.com/world/early-...
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisCommentary: Days after President Donald Trump dropped his tariff threat against eight European countries over their opposition to the United States acquiring Greenland, the self-proclaimed “tariff man” instituted another warning against yet another ally: Canada.
- Isolationist Trump is threatening to bomb Iran for the second time in seven months.
- Trump’s contradictions (1/4)
- Bomb drug traffickers but then pardon one of the worst drug traffickers of them all. (2/4)
- Praise Canada for signing a trade deal with China but then threaten 100% tariffs on Canada two weeks later. (3/4)
- Complaint about Europe not stepping up but then threaten tariffs when it deploys a few troops to Greenland. (4/4)
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisCBC - President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if Canada "makes a deal with China" — a forceful message that comes days after Prime Minister Carney delivered a speech at Davos widely viewed as pushback on US actions. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trum...
- Trump could have gotten this concession without the histrionics.
- 'The plan includes updating the 1951 "Greenland Defense Agreement" between the U.S. and Denmark, which allowed the U.S. to build military bases in the island and establish "defense areas" if NATO believed it necessary.' www.axios.com/2026/01/21/g...
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisNato chief and Trump discussed revamp of US-Danish military deal ft.trib.al/vgw2rU2
- Today is a day where I wished I had a cabin in the middle of the wilderness, cut off from WiFi.
- Brrrrrrr….
- I know people don’t want to hear this, but Delcy Rodriguez is running laps around Maria Corina Machado, whose desperate attempt to get Trump’s attention by giving away her Nobel looks a lot like a kid trying to get daddy’s approval. Sorry if that’s too harsh for some people.
- Wannabe Shah Pahlavi Jr might be the most narcissistic human being on the planet. I have utter contempt for the man.
- It seems that if you work for CSIS, you can write in pretty much any publication no matter how tired, generic and wrong the argument is.
- The fact that Trump doesn’t give a damn about whether Venezuela is a democracy or not seems to escape a lot of smart people…
- Trump’s Latin America strategy: empire.
- In this case, “covert action” means hitting a random, empty, isolated Venezuelan dock that won’t do much of anything.
- CDMX.
- The ongoing “war” against drug traffickers in the Southern Caribbean could very well be the most secret military campaign in my life so far. It makes Nixon’s 1969-1970 air war in Cambodia look like an exercise in transparency.
- Congress is really good at oversight.
- More fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border. More fighting in the Eastern DRC. Daily Israeli strikes in Gaza. Maybe it’s time for Trump to stop bragging about “solving” so many wars?
- Dick Cheney would be proud.
- Seems totally legit.
- The boat strikes are not only congressionally unauthorized, legally questionable and morally disturbing—they’re also ineffective. It’s all performative. The strikes don’t solve anything.
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisSyria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has got plenty right over the past twelve months. But cracks in his leadership are beginning to show
- Just got the Oura Ring. I need to sit down and relax.
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisFirst of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisThe lack of progress on setting up an international police force in Palestine suggests that Donald Trump’s claims of peace are misplaced, writes Daniel DePetris.
- Matt Gaetz actually asked a pretty good question though: are there any day-after plans in Venezuela if Maduro leaves?
- The same people who were rooting for Ukraine to pursue a failed counteroffensive are now enraged that it will have to swallow bad terms in order to get a peace deal. And they have the gall to blame everybody else for Ukraine’s predicament. Total lack of self-awareness.
- How many times does Pete Hegseth have to f— up before he gets the boot?
- Whenever the Ukrainians are satisfied with peace terms, the Russians move back. And Vice-versa. Rinse and repeat.
- US Secretary of State Rubio emerged from talks with Ukrainian officials in Florida to say that there was still "much work to do" on a proposal to end the war with Russia. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/...
- On this issue, Hegseth is just operationalizing the babble he preached on Fox News all those years.
- I think we need to stop referring to Gaza and Lebanon as actual ceasefires. A ceasefire means, well, a ceasing of fire. What we have in these two cases is Israel striking less than it used to, but still holding the power to act whenever it wants.
- To claim that Nicolas Maduro is the head of a grand conspiracy to weaken the United States by turning us all into cocaine users is about as stupid as claiming Saddam Hussein was going to give Al-Qaeda a nuclear bomb to drop on an American city.
- 🫠
- So I guess we have similar values after all?
- “instead of trying to separate from the Persian Gulf petrostates, Mr. Trump is reshaping America to look more like them: top-down, iron-fisted, resource-rich and more than willing to flash those resources as weapons.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
- Reposted by Dan DePetris“The idea that you’re going to be able to slot in a government and everything else will just fall into place, I think is just fantasy,” added Mr. Gunson, speaking from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas. And citations to our recent @crisisgroup.org statement. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
- Very on brand.
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisIncredible that he is paid money for these takes. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
- ‘We don’t want the smoking gun to be a fentanyl mushroom cloud.’
- I still think the BBC is better than any TV news network the U.S. has. Sue me.
- I’d surrender too.
- Noriega got Rickrolled www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisAmazing to see these recycled arguments about the magical attributes of air power. What in recent U.S. historical experience could lead someone to write this?
- It’s odd that terms like “socialist” and “communist” still get thrown around in 2025, as if we’re still living in the Red Scare era. Do people find these attacks even remotely convincing?
- Reposted by Dan DePetrisReports say that the executive branch’s legal office is claiming that Trump's campaign in the Caribbean does not technically meet the definition of "hostilities" in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, @dandepetris.bsky.social writes on @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/04/c...
- The White House’s position on the Caribbean/Pacific boat strikes can be summed up as “the U.S. is at war with narcoterrorists but legally, we’re not technically in a war so we don’t have to follow the War Powers Resolution or get congressional authorization.” Makes John Yoo look sane.
- *Throws cell phone in the East River*
- And DoD would allow reporters to ask questions about that legal rationale…oh wait.
