Stephen Wertheim ✓

@stephenwertheim · Washington, DC · joined 28 Jun 2009

America in the world, past and present. Senior Fellow @CarnegieEndow. Lecturer @YaleLawSch. Author @TomoTheWorld. For speaking: john@chartwellspeakers.com.

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Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim13 Sep

I have to inform you that the United States has no chance of getting out of the Middle East without people pushing to do that in American politics. 4.8K views · 100 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim12 Sep

In this report, I said: “Just weeks ago, Trump adopted a strategy of squeezing Iran’s economy while keeping military conflict at levels too low to squeeze the American economy. The Houthis have shattered Trump’s plan.” 2.3K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim12 Sep

“Just weeks ago,” I told Reuters, “Trump adopted a strategy of squeezing Iran's economy while keeping military conflict at levels too low to squeeze the American economy. The Houthis have shattered Trump's plan." https://t.co/wtYwTfIyv3 1.2K views · 10 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim12 Sep

@stephenwertheim You have to think bigger. You’re not enumerating the pros: 1) Risk of great power war instantly reduced. 2) $400-700B savings in defence budget. 3) Upon reunification, China will throw the biggest party the world has ever seen… orders of magnitude beyond an 1.2K views · 34 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim11 Sep

@stephenwertheim There is no meaningful ambiguity. We can all see the wreckage of US bases across the Persian Gulf & the depletion of inventory. Talk is cheap and the U.S. simply does not have the material means to sustain its Asian bases should it come to that. 771 views · 34 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim11 Sep

@stephenwertheim #1 is often brought up in this debate, but very little suggests that China's is waiting for a window of opportunity to pounce. The view is that time is on Beijing's side, and that some form of reunification will happen down the road. They really do not want to re 1.6K views · 17 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim11 Sep

The restraint debate on Taiwan is advancing. I’d like to put forward the problems I see with calls to end the currently ambiguous U.S. commitment to Taiwan by clarifying that the United States would not defend Taiwan: 1. If the United States announced it wouldn’t defend Taiwan, 61.3K views · 100 likes · 22 reposts · 27 replies Open on X →

Stephen Wertheim ✓@stephenwertheim23 Jun

For years, critics of the Obama nuclear agreement claimed that all they wanted was a "better deal," accomplished through pressure but not violence. Today they stand exposed, after lining up behind a major attack that was launched by a proudly improvisational president in the http

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