Dan DePetris
@dandepetris.bsky.social
Syndicated foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Trump’s contradictions (1/4)
January 24, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Trump’s contradictions (1/4)
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CBC - 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 threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China' | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to impose a 100 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods entering the United States if Canada "makes a deal with China" — a forceful message that comes days after Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech in Davos, Switzerland, widely viewed as pushing back on U.S. actions.
www.cbc.ca
January 24, 2026 at 2:44 PM
CBC - 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...
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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...
Greenland proposal Trump endorsed respects Denmark's sovereignty: sources
Trump said the U.S. needed to own Greenland. Under this deal, it wouldn't.
www.axios.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trump could have gotten this concession without the histrionics.
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...
Greenland proposal Trump endorsed respects Denmark's sovereignty: sources
Trump said the U.S. needed to own Greenland. Under this deal, it wouldn't.
www.axios.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Trump could have gotten this concession without the histrionics.
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Nato chief and Trump discussed revamp of US-Danish military deal ft.trib.al/vgw2rU2
Nato chief and Trump discussed revamp of US-Danish military deal
US president dialled down threats to Europe over Greenland after talks on reopening 1951 pact
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January 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Nato 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.
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Today is a day where I wished I had a cabin in the middle of the wilderness, cut off from WiFi.
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.
January 16, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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.
January 13, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Wannabe Shah Pahlavi Jr might be the most narcissistic human being on the planet. I have utter contempt for the man.
January 11, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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.
January 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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.
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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…
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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…
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…
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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.
January 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Trump’s Latin America strategy: empire.
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In this case, “covert action” means hitting a random, empty, isolated Venezuelan dock that won’t do much of anything.
Sharing operational details of an attack beforehand with a random journalist on a group chat is for rookies.
Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.
Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In this case, “covert action” means hitting a random, empty, isolated Venezuelan dock that won’t do much of anything.
In this case, “covert action” means hitting a random, empty, isolated Venezuelan dock that won’t do much of anything.
Sharing operational details of an attack beforehand with a random journalist on a group chat is for rookies.
Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.
Casually disclosing covert action while calling into a radio show is the real deal.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
In this case, “covert action” means hitting a random, empty, isolated Venezuelan dock that won’t do much of anything.
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.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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.
Mike Johnson on video of the second September 2 strike: "My admission here is I was not in the Gang of 8 briefing yesterday because we were working on the healthcare stuff"
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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?
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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.
Pete Hegseth compares the illicit drugs trafficked into America to Weapons of Mass Destruction.
"These narco terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere ... they're poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons."
"These narco terrorists are the Al-Qaeda of our hemisphere ... they're poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons."
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Dick Cheney would be proud.
Seems totally legit.
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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.