Ishaan Tharoor
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
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Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
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Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
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Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
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The feeling at Davos is “about much more than Greenland. It’s about whether the USA will accept the liberal world order or will they break from that world.”
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Column | At Davos, Trump’s Greenland gambit prompts European backlash
The surreal clamor over Greenland provoked by Trump has shadowed proceedings in Davos, heightening fears of an emerging rupture between the U.S. and Europe.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The feeling at Davos is “about much more than Greenland. It’s about whether the USA will accept the liberal world order or will they break from that world.”
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'Still, the apparent endgame in Caracas, which has seen Trump working with the remnants of Maduro’s regime and sidelining Venezuela’s prodemocratic opposition, may be a cautionary tale for Iran’s protesters.' @ishaantharoor.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com #Iran #Trump #Venezuela
Column | Could Iran go the way of Venezuela?
The apparent endgame in Caracas, which has seen Trump sideline Venezuela’s pro-democratic opposition, may be a cautionary tale for Iran’s protesters.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:46 AM
'Still, the apparent endgame in Caracas, which has seen Trump working with the remnants of Maduro’s regime and sidelining Venezuela’s prodemocratic opposition, may be a cautionary tale for Iran’s protesters.' @ishaantharoor.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com #Iran #Trump #Venezuela
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“Such is the dizzying speed of recent developments that an event from only a week ago could offer a precedent to newer upheavals.”
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Iran analysts are eyeing Trump’s gambit in Venezuela for clues to what might come in the days ahead
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Iran analysts are eyeing Trump’s gambit in Venezuela for clues to what might come in the days ahead
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Column | Could Iran go the way of Venezuela?
The apparent endgame in Caracas, which has seen Trump sideline Venezuela’s pro-democratic opposition, may be a cautionary tale for Iran’s protesters.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM
“Such is the dizzying speed of recent developments that an event from only a week ago could offer a precedent to newer upheavals.”
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Iran analysts are eyeing Trump’s gambit in Venezuela for clues to what might come in the days ahead
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social: Iran analysts are eyeing Trump’s gambit in Venezuela for clues to what might come in the days ahead
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Iran’s protests seem different this time. Is the regime on the brink?
Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within
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Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within
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Column | Iran’s protests seem different this time. Is the regime on the brink?
Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Iran’s protests seem different this time. Is the regime on the brink?
Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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Iran’s rulers are not just facing a clamor from within
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social comments on the other side of [Trump's] 'anti-globalism': "The gambit in Venezuela and its sharpening intent to claim the territory of Greenland have offered the most concrete signs yet of Trump’s unvarnished imperialistic streak."
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Column | Trump’s anti-globalism looks like old-school Yankee imperialism
Opportunistic imperialism. Personalist dictatorship. There are myriad phrases to describe what’s emerging in the United States, and they’re not flattering.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:40 PM
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social comments on the other side of [Trump's] 'anti-globalism': "The gambit in Venezuela and its sharpening intent to claim the territory of Greenland have offered the most concrete signs yet of Trump’s unvarnished imperialistic streak."
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With its latest moves, “the U.S. administration of the wildest imagination of Latin American leftists has come to life,” @filipecampante.bsky.social told me.
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Column | Trump’s anti-globalism looks like old-school Yankee imperialism
Opportunistic imperialism. Personalist dictatorship. There are myriad phrases to describe what’s emerging in the United States, and they’re not flattering.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
With its latest moves, “the U.S. administration of the wildest imagination of Latin American leftists has come to life,” @filipecampante.bsky.social told me.
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I spoke to @ishaantharoor.bsky.social about what the US looks like now, seen from Latin America. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Column | Trump’s anti-globalism looks like old-school Yankee imperialism
Opportunistic imperialism. Personalist dictatorship. There are myriad phrases to describe what’s emerging in the United States, and they’re not flattering.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I spoke to @ishaantharoor.bsky.social about what the US looks like now, seen from Latin America. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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“The aftermath of Trump’s Venezuela operation has pointed to a shifting paradigm, where the United States is acting with the neo-imperialist impulses of more than a century ago, increasingly untethered from the ‘rules-based’ postwar order.”
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Column | The crisis over Greenland is here
European officials constantly invoke the rules-based order. But after Venezuela, the Trump administration seems to believe that might makes right.
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January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“The aftermath of Trump’s Venezuela operation has pointed to a shifting paradigm, where the United States is acting with the neo-imperialist impulses of more than a century ago, increasingly untethered from the ‘rules-based’ postwar order.”
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Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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Column | How ancient Sparta explains 2026
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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December 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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How ancient Sparta explains 2026
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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Column | How ancient Sparta explains 2026
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
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December 30, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How ancient Sparta explains 2026
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
wapo.st/49jQsZn via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.
wapo.st/49jQsZn via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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@ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes that "the grim conditions exacerbate an already bleak status quo. Much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, including many medical facilities. Those that remain in operation are struggling to care for the population."
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Column | In Gaza, another winter of despair
The grim conditions in Gaza exacerbate an already bleak status quo.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes that "the grim conditions exacerbate an already bleak status quo. Much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, including many medical facilities. Those that remain in operation are struggling to care for the population."
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The Messi tour of India may be the most surreal episode of 2025, and that's saying something
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Messi tour of India may be the most surreal episode of 2025, and that's saying something
We are learning of the horrors of El Fasher not from visceral evidence but through silence and absence. Satellite images show hollowed-out neighborhoods, bloodstained grounds and traces of mass graves. Children fleeing El Fasher arrived at camps for the displaced without parents or other loved ones.
December 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We are learning of the horrors of El Fasher not from visceral evidence but through silence and absence. Satellite images show hollowed-out neighborhoods, bloodstained grounds and traces of mass graves. Children fleeing El Fasher arrived at camps for the displaced without parents or other loved ones.
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“What is unfolding in El Fasher recalls the horrors Darfur was subjected to 20 years ago,” Tom Fletcher, the U.N.'s top relief official, said…..But somehow today we are seeing a very different global reaction — one of resignation.” Via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social [gift link] wapo.st/48IoTZp
Column | The horrors of El Fasher echo Sudan’s genocidal past
The civil war in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The region is still grappling with past traumas.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“What is unfolding in El Fasher recalls the horrors Darfur was subjected to 20 years ago,” Tom Fletcher, the U.N.'s top relief official, said…..But somehow today we are seeing a very different global reaction — one of resignation.” Via @ishaantharoor.bsky.social [gift link] wapo.st/48IoTZp
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Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes
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Column | A line in the sand moment for Europe and the U.S.
The release of the U.S. National Security Strategy landed like a grenade in Brussels, underscoring the depth of ideological vehemence within the White House.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Instead of focusing on threats from Russia and China, Trump’s new National Security Strategy takes aim at Europe, warning against “civilizational erasure” caused by unfettered migration and a feckless liberal establishment @ishaantharoor.bsky.social writes
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The great @jonawils.bsky.social on the World Cup: "Every other World Cup host has said to most of the rest of the world, 'please come to our country.' Whereas the US appears actively hostile to outsiders. And I think a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable just about the idea of going to the US."
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The great @jonawils.bsky.social on the World Cup: "Every other World Cup host has said to most of the rest of the world, 'please come to our country.' Whereas the US appears actively hostile to outsiders. And I think a lot of people feel pretty uncomfortable just about the idea of going to the US."
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
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Column | The glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
The Trump administration’s pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández raises questions about its war on “narcoterrorism.”
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December 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
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On the release of Juan Orlando Hernández and the glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
Free to read: wapo.st/446rLOm
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Why fight with Venezuela if you free from prison a convicted Latin American leader who worked with Mexican cartels to stuff American noses with cocaine? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Column | The glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs
The Trump administration’s pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández raises questions about its war on “narcoterrorism.”
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December 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Why fight with Venezuela if you free from prison a convicted Latin American leader who worked with Mexican cartels to stuff American noses with cocaine? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... @ishaantharoor.bsky.social
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Here's @ishaantharoor.bsky.social with the longer story, including the murder of human rights activist Berta Caceres, who I had the privilege of translating for on a US tour and who was brutally murdered in 2016.
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Analysis | The crisis in Honduras should matter to the U.S.
Amid protests and allegations of voter fraud, the disputed Honduran election ought to echo in Washington.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Here's @ishaantharoor.bsky.social with the longer story, including the murder of human rights activist Berta Caceres, who I had the privilege of translating for on a US tour and who was brutally murdered in 2016.
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NEW: Not only has the Trump admin disinvited South Africa from next year's G-20 Summit, but it's gutted the organization's website and removed South Africa's documentation and the reports tied to this year's summit. Instead, you just have this picture of Trump.
December 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NEW: Not only has the Trump admin disinvited South Africa from next year's G-20 Summit, but it's gutted the organization's website and removed South Africa's documentation and the reports tied to this year's summit. Instead, you just have this picture of Trump.
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From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Column | Trump’s embrace of ‘remigration’ echoes Europe’s far right
The term “remigration” probably entered President Donald Trump’s orbit via the politics of ascendant far-right parties in Germany and Austria.
wapo.st
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From latest:
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6
Martin Sellner, the Austrian neo-Nazi who popularized the term "remigration," showed off a screenshot to my colleagues of a Trump social media post, using the word. He said that Trump’s borrowing of the term was a “vindication” of his own political project.
Free link: wapo.st/48rVum6