Bloggingheads.tv: Drezburt

The story behind Heather's Expos hat ... Trump's failed, reality TV–esque, fatal car crash reconciliation ... Will impeachment cause US foreign policy to improve? ... Is the era of grand strategy over? ... Why a US–EU entente is coming post-Trump ... Dan: Climate change can't be ignored in foreign policy any more ...

Who tried to kill Big Papi? ... Who attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman? ... Is Shinzo Abe Trump's friend or supplicant? ... Gauging the odds of war with Iran ... Heather: Trump's actions mean the US can never rejoin the nuclear deal ... The ever-growing costs of maintaining American hegemony ... Trump as God's gift to neoliberalism ... Dan has some kind words for Elizabeth Warren ...

Secretary Mattis's extraordinary resignation letter ... Why did Trump decide to withdraw from Syria now? ... Secretary of Defense David Petraeus? ... Other foreign policy news you may have missed this week ... Heather: You don't change Trump, Trump changes you ... Laughing and crying at the year in foreign policy ...

Why the fight over security clearances matters ... Are the norms that Trump broke permanently broken? ... Dan: Trump's trade wars have created more free trade supporters ... Why NAFTA isn't getting renegotiated any time soon ... Would a Dem Congress be able to change Trump's trade policy? ... Will the liberal international order survive Trump? ...

Gary Cohn, we hardly knew ye ... The incoherence of Trump's trade policy ... Why the current debate about trade is out of date ... Will Mike Pompeo be better than Rex Tillerson? ... Assessing James Mattis's tenure ... Heather makes the case against the CIA's Gina Haskell ... Dan is genuinely worried about John Bolton in the White House ...

Trump's first year in foreign policy ... The international community of shitholes ... The logical contradiction at the heart of Trump's foreign policy ... Dan: Trump disdains the liberal international order but offers no alternative ... The challenge for internationalists ... The "constant crap" theory ...

Heather’s statement on the #metoo hashtag and sexual assault awareness ... What “America first” means to the rest of the world ... Is the liberal international order in danger? Heather says yes ... Dan’s book Avoiding Trivia makes a surprise appearance ... Heather: Social media matters, but information warfare is nothing new ...

The end of the “axis of adults” ... Heather: Trump needs Deterrence Theory 101 ... How much should we fear North Korea? ... Which Trump adviser will be the next to go? ... The disconnect between Trump and the Pentagon ... The case for negotiating with North Korea ...

What Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Accord says about executive power ... Comparing Trump and Bush: why messaging matters ... Dan on Trump's diplomacy: more predictable, less credible ... Will Trump's grandstanding on NATO bring results? ... Has Trump deterred nationalist populism in Europe? ... Global governance in the age of populism ...

The end of Turkish democracy? ... The foreign policy “axis of adults” ... Nikki Haley, rising star ... Why the MOAB and the Syria strikes won’t scare Kim Jong-Un ... Will Trump negotiate with North Korea? ...