Matthew Kroenig is a columnist at Foreign Policy and vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His latest book, with Dan Negrea, is We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War.
A collage photo illustration shows Donald Trump gesturing with arms wide. In front of him are headshots of Benjamin Netanyahu and Vlodymyr Zelensky, images of immigratns and ICE police, a tattered EU flag and America First signs.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson applaud as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an address to a joint session of Congress on Mar. 4.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) and U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance meet on the sidelines of the 61st Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany on Feb. 14.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Make America Great Again" rally at Aaron Bessant Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida on May 8, 2019.
A dove of peace flag is seen during a rally in support of Ukraine, to mark the second year of Russia's military invasion, in Frankfurt, Germany on Feb. 24, 2024.
