Andrew Roth
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Global affairs correspondent for @guardian based in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow with a stopover in London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: Andrew.Roth@theguardian.com.
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“Orbán wants Trump to come to Budapest before the elections,"said a source at a gov. foreign policy institution.“This is a top priority.They will discuss the Russian gas issue, but the thing Orbán cares about the most is the elections.”
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Orbán to visit US to try to broker another Putin summit but questions raised over motives
Hungarian PM also seeking exemption on US sanctions on Russian oil as he faces domestic challenge before elections
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November 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“Orbán wants Trump to come to Budapest before the elections,"said a source at a gov. foreign policy institution.“This is a top priority.They will discuss the Russian gas issue, but the thing Orbán cares about the most is the elections.”
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How Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an ‘anti-immigration machine’
Miller is one of the most powerful officials in Trump’s White House, illustrating how it has sought to overcome a ‘deep state’ of professional diplomats
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October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The brilliant @rothandrew.bsky.social brought @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social around the world - from Ukraine to Venezuela, the Middle East to Argentina, breaking down Trump's plan for global power
Not content with being the King of America, Donald Trump seems bent on becoming the King of the World. Latest Politics Weekly America, featuring my excellent colleague Andrew Roth open.spotify.com/episode/4e7F...
Donald Trump: King of the world?
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October 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The brilliant @rothandrew.bsky.social brought @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social around the world - from Ukraine to Venezuela, the Middle East to Argentina, breaking down Trump's plan for global power
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Trump is still deciding what his plan should be when it comes to Iran. Whatever he decides, he’s bound to anger some of his supporters.
Is this the issue that splits his Maga base?
@rachelleingang.bsky.social and @rothandrew.bsky.social discuss it all here
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Is this the issue that splits his Maga base?
@rachelleingang.bsky.social and @rothandrew.bsky.social discuss it all here
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Trump’s plan for Iran divides Republicans
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June 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump is still deciding what his plan should be when it comes to Iran. Whatever he decides, he’s bound to anger some of his supporters.
Is this the issue that splits his Maga base?
@rachelleingang.bsky.social and @rothandrew.bsky.social discuss it all here
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Is this the issue that splits his Maga base?
@rachelleingang.bsky.social and @rothandrew.bsky.social discuss it all here
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From antiwar, Biden-backing Democrat to apologist for Assad and Putin and finally strident Trump loyalist, Tulsi Gabbard’s political journey has been astonishing. @rothandrew.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss what motivates the woman Russian TV called “our girlfriend” ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
June 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
From antiwar, Biden-backing Democrat to apologist for Assad and Putin and finally strident Trump loyalist, Tulsi Gabbard’s political journey has been astonishing. @rothandrew.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss what motivates the woman Russian TV called “our girlfriend” ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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After Trump's whirlwind week in the Middle East, a deep dive into Vance, Rubio and Witkoff - the men trying to shape US foreign policy. @rothandrew.bsky.social and I talk about them, and one less visible key player, for the latest Politics Weekly America open.spotify.com/episode/556H...
Who are the players behind Trump’s foreign policy?
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May 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
After Trump's whirlwind week in the Middle East, a deep dive into Vance, Rubio and Witkoff - the men trying to shape US foreign policy. @rothandrew.bsky.social and I talk about them, and one less visible key player, for the latest Politics Weekly America open.spotify.com/episode/556H...
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Set out to report this story & truly didn’t expect Kremlin’s militarization of education to be as intense as reported. But it was quite shocking to see it first-hand
My latest fr @washingtonpost.com on how classrooms & libraries are becoming training grounds
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My latest fr @washingtonpost.com on how classrooms & libraries are becoming training grounds
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In wartime Russia, schools prepare the next generation of fighters
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian education system has cranked the patriotic themes into overdrive, seeking to mold the soldiers of tomorrow.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Set out to report this story & truly didn’t expect Kremlin’s militarization of education to be as intense as reported. But it was quite shocking to see it first-hand
My latest fr @washingtonpost.com on how classrooms & libraries are becoming training grounds
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My latest fr @washingtonpost.com on how classrooms & libraries are becoming training grounds
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Trump’s ‘adults in the room’ on Ukraine are in a race to the bottom. Rubio declares it a ‘proxy war’. Kellogg says intel cutoff is ‘hitting a mule in face with a 2x4’. Also Vance tipped off UK media he would bring up free speech in Starmer meet. My latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘They brought it on themselves’: a new low in US-Ukraine relations
Diplomats gasp as Keith Kellogg claims Zelenskyy to blame for soured relations with America
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March 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Trump’s ‘adults in the room’ on Ukraine are in a race to the bottom. Rubio declares it a ‘proxy war’. Kellogg says intel cutoff is ‘hitting a mule in face with a 2x4’. Also Vance tipped off UK media he would bring up free speech in Starmer meet. My latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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This was good and helpful for understanding the issues around Trump and Ukraine (with @rothandrew.bsky.social and Michael Safi) www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
How far will Trump’s embrace of Russia go? – podcast
The US has suspended all military aid to Ukraine. What does this mean for European security? Andrew Roth reports
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March 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This was good and helpful for understanding the issues around Trump and Ukraine (with @rothandrew.bsky.social and Michael Safi) www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Spoke with @theguardian.com Today in Focus about Trump's embrace of Russia and the cutoff in aid to Ukraine. “Trump is such a singular political force right now that he’s managing to repaint many aspects of the argument over Ukraine in American political life." www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
How far will Trump’s embrace of Russia go? – podcast
The US has suspended all military aid to Ukraine. What does this mean for European security? Andrew Roth reports
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March 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Spoke with @theguardian.com Today in Focus about Trump's embrace of Russia and the cutoff in aid to Ukraine. “Trump is such a singular political force right now that he’s managing to repaint many aspects of the argument over Ukraine in American political life." www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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I’ve been back & forth to Russia a fair bit the last few months, and I could never have imagined some of the convos I’ve had this week in Moscow. Even a month or two ago this rhetoric would have seemed totally far-fetched and fanciful. Things shifting fast here.
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Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says
Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”
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March 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I’ve been back & forth to Russia a fair bit the last few months, and I could never have imagined some of the convos I’ve had this week in Moscow. Even a month or two ago this rhetoric would have seemed totally far-fetched and fanciful. Things shifting fast here.
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I will stop posting about this after this (maybe?) but this, from @rothandrew.bsky.social on JD Vance's role in the attempted humiliation of Zelenskyy and Ukraine, is spot on
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How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance
Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich
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March 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I will stop posting about this after this (maybe?) but this, from @rothandrew.bsky.social on JD Vance's role in the attempted humiliation of Zelenskyy and Ukraine, is spot on
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JD Vance was supposed to be forgotten as vice-president. Instead, he has launched two key interventions to spoil the US relationship with Europe and Ukraine that may mark the collapse of the transatlantic alliance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance
Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich
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March 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
JD Vance was supposed to be forgotten as vice-president. Instead, he has launched two key interventions to spoil the US relationship with Europe and Ukraine that may mark the collapse of the transatlantic alliance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I am of America and for America.” Why then did it take 10 years for this change to materialize. Did Jeff Bezos suddenly become American? Or did America suddenly become whatever is profitable for Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump?
February 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
“I am of America and for America.” Why then did it take 10 years for this change to materialize. Did Jeff Bezos suddenly become American? Or did America suddenly become whatever is profitable for Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump?
Trump, Vance and Musk are spearheading the US’ new foreign policy: extort the concessions they can from Europe and then let populist voters finish the job www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump and Vance are courting Europe’s far right to spread their political gospel
US vice-president’s speech and meeting with Germany’s AfD chief signal administration’s wider plans for continent
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February 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Trump, Vance and Musk are spearheading the US’ new foreign policy: extort the concessions they can from Europe and then let populist voters finish the job www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Under Trump 1, Mike Pence pledged $400 million to help Yazidis and Christian minorities resettle after Isis genocide. Under Trump 2, the administration is gutting those programs, cutting aid to tens of thousands of genocide survivors still in dire need. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
USAid cuts sow feeling of betrayal among Yazidis, 10 years after IS genocide
Figures who backed rights of religious minorities in first Trump term fall silent as vital work halted on the ground
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February 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Under Trump 1, Mike Pence pledged $400 million to help Yazidis and Christian minorities resettle after Isis genocide. Under Trump 2, the administration is gutting those programs, cutting aid to tens of thousands of genocide survivors still in dire need. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Trump Says He Has Opened Talks With Putin To End War In Ukraine
▫US secretary of defence says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies
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▫US secretary of defence says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies
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February 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Trump Says He Has Opened Talks With Putin To End War In Ukraine
▫US secretary of defence says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies
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▫US secretary of defence says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies
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Musk in a pattern now of turning Musk/Thiel executives into federal CIOs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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!["Federal agency CIOs have authority over all agency asset management, which includes software used to monitor civil servant laptops and phones,” a former Biden official with firsthand knowledge of a CIO’s capabilities tells WIRED. “CIO shops manage and control IT access to all agency databases and systems, and have oversight over all the IT contracts per FITARA [the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act]. They have lots of IT budget and headcount Musk might want to take over. In agencies, CIOs are functionally as powerful as OIGs [the Office of Inspectors General].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreieuilaoceioio7weczjw5f7xrm7licjlvb5kpu4uiz2m35nl4hzgi@jpeg)
February 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Musk in a pattern now of turning Musk/Thiel executives into federal CIOs: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Russia and the US to negotiate over how many Europeans will be stationed in Ukraine.
February 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Russia and the US to negotiate over how many Europeans will be stationed in Ukraine.
Autocrats plan crackdown on USAid and civil society and ask Musk and Trump to help with data. Georgia opens criminal case, local partners questioned in probe into USAid in second country, Guardian can reveal. And Slovakia asks Musk directly for lists of partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown
Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s
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February 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Autocrats plan crackdown on USAid and civil society and ask Musk and Trump to help with data. Georgia opens criminal case, local partners questioned in probe into USAid in second country, Guardian can reveal. And Slovakia asks Musk directly for lists of partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fantastic piece by @francescaebel.bsky.social on the “frozen” people, thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in secret in Russian prisons and the activists in Ukraine and Russia fighting to get them out. Urgent story and brilliant storytelling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Ukrainians are vanishing into Russia. These people track them down.
Thousands of Ukrainians have disappeared into prisons in Russia, and a network of Russians and Ukrainians are working together to find them.
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February 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Fantastic piece by @francescaebel.bsky.social on the “frozen” people, thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in secret in Russian prisons and the activists in Ukraine and Russia fighting to get them out. Urgent story and brilliant storytelling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Must-read by @rothandrew.bsky.social on how Musk's acolytes forced their way into USAID and its secure systems. Putting his Russia reporting experience to work in Trump's second outing
Doge v USAid: how Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency
Exclusive: Takeover of USAid agency by Doge operatives seen as pilot for large-scale overhaul of federal government
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February 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Must-read by @rothandrew.bsky.social on how Musk's acolytes forced their way into USAID and its secure systems. Putting his Russia reporting experience to work in Trump's second outing
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New via Guardian — USAID security was defending a secure room holding classified data when a message came directly from Elon Musk: give the DOGE kids whatever they want. It was one of three calls by Musk to get access, including threatening to call US Marshals.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New via Guardian — USAID security was defending a secure room holding classified data when a message came directly from Elon Musk: give the DOGE kids whatever they want. It was one of three calls by Musk to get access, including threatening to call US Marshals.
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Roth's 10 years of (excellent) reporting in Moscow has prepared him for his new gig in DC. On the Doge insanity perpetrated by the Muskovite incels.
SCOOP: Elon Musk in multiple phone calls pressured USAID administrators and security to give the "Doge kids" access to personnel data and secure rooms. My insider piece on the tense meetings and chaotic standoffs at USAID as four young Musk acolytes shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge v USAid: How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency
Takeover of USAid agency by Doge operatives seen as a pilot for a large-scale overhaul of the federal government
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February 6, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Roth's 10 years of (excellent) reporting in Moscow has prepared him for his new gig in DC. On the Doge insanity perpetrated by the Muskovite incels.
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This morning I woke up to news that the richest man in the world— the unelected oligarch tearing down our government—retweeted a grifter’s lies about me. Here are the facts, since I know weirdos from Twitter stalk me here (maybe find another hobby?): 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This morning I woke up to news that the richest man in the world— the unelected oligarch tearing down our government—retweeted a grifter’s lies about me. Here are the facts, since I know weirdos from Twitter stalk me here (maybe find another hobby?): 🧵