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Foreign Affairs posts on X about united states, middle east, israel, hamas the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 8579 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence united states #4471, middle east #178, israel #3224, hamas #1016, russia #946, china, moscow #407, ukraine #887, taiwan #731, away from #481
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"In a 2019 essay @sbg1 discussed Vladimir Putins rise to powerand examined the Wests long history of misreading his hold on Russia:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T11:54Z 930.4K followers, 4223 engagements
"Read @jeffreyprescott and @JulianGewirtz on how China could benefit from the Trump administrations rapid willing abdication of Washingtons role in the international system:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T21:52Z 930.5K followers, 5436 engagements
"Ukraines guarantors must signal to Moscow that renewed aggression will be met not just with Ukrainian resistance but with a massive intensification of external support write @scharap and @JyShapiro"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T00:09Z 930.4K followers, 7112 engagements
"Israels strikes on Irans energy facilities may be designed to goad Iran into attacking Gulf energy stations or closing the Strait of Hormuz. Such moves would draw Arab states into the conflict and force them to side openly with Israelwhich is exactly what Israel is seeking"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-06-22T14:33Z 930.4K followers, 21.5K engagements
"Policymakers should start rolling out the right responses now before AI layoffs ramp up and while the most effective solutions still command widespread support write @BeaMagistro @SBorwein @rmichaelalvarez @bartbonikowski and @PeejLoewen"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T16:51Z 930.4K followers, 5461 engagements
"Temporary logistics might seem wasteful but the alternativeattempting to maintain peacetime standards of logistical efficiency in the opening phase of a conflictrisks the type of supply failures that have decided countless wars argue Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T23:12Z 930.4K followers, 5846 engagements
"The United States is approaching the point at which the national debt could undermine not only the countrys economic stability but also the things that have sustained its global power for so many decades warns @krogoff"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T07:04Z 930.4K followers, 9628 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes Benn Steil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-04T13:00Z 930.4K followers, 48.5K engagements
"The United States and Europe should pledge that should Russia attack Ukraine again they will reimpose sanctions on Moscow and provide Kyiv with a massive intensification of support argue @scharap and @JyShapiro"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T14:39Z 930.4K followers, 5533 engagements
"Arab countries know that the more they do to create a workable Palestinian administration the more likely Trump is to press Israel not only to stop the war in Gaza but also to stop its creeping annexation of the West Bank writes @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T21:40Z 930.5K followers, 7257 engagements
"From Beijings perspective a U.S.-Chinese code of conduct for military encounters gives the United States a get-out-of-jail-free card allowing it to continue its freedom of navigation operations in the Indo-Pacific writes Kurt Campbell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T19:14Z 930.4K followers, 6880 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes @BennSteil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T04:25Z 930.5K followers, 7575 engagements
"Chinas goal is not to replace the United States as the dominant global power argue @daveckang @SiuHeiWong2 and @ZenobiaChan. Instead Beijing is more focused on preserving the status quo and maintaining its internal stability"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-01T10:20Z 930.5K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Washington has long assumed but left unsaid that Australia would join the United States in a potential war with China over Taiwan writes James Curran. But Canberra has a strong interest in avoiding war"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T21:30Z 930.4K followers, 8382 engagements
".@NarangVipin and @pranayrvaddi explain Irans failure to make a nuclear weaponand consider what what would-be proliferator states have learned from the 12-day war:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-09T07:59Z 930.4K followers, 3836 engagements
"Read @scharap and @JyShapiro on how American and European leaders can craft security guarantees for Ukraine that both Kyiv and Moscow will find credible:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T15:48Z 930.4K followers, 8774 engagements
"If Putin has aspired to be a ruthless modern tsar he is not the all-seeing all-powerful one he is often portrayed to be wrote @sbg1 in a 2019 essay. He is an elected leader even if those elections are shams"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T09:19Z 930.4K followers, 6585 engagements
"At some point Israelis will have to accept they and Palestinians would both be better off if Palestinians had a state of their own says @PhilGordonDC who served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T02:32Z 930.4K followers, 7005 engagements
"Once credibility is lost it is hard to recover writes @YarhiMilo. When Trump leaves office the United States will be left with fewer friendsand it will have to spend more to reassure the allies it still has"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T03:01Z 930.4K followers, 7851 engagements
"Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman explain how the United States can adapt to the new realities of weaponized interdependence:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T08:49Z 930.4K followers, 4013 engagements
"In the weeks and months to come Hamas is likely to rearm its cadres with weapons smuggled by Iran or manufactured at home and use humanitarian aid to refill its empty coffers writes @Levitt_Matt"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T21:42Z 930.4K followers, 4686 engagements
"Like the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War China has vulnerabilities that can be exploited writes @SethGJones. It is time for the United States to develop in earnest a new offset strategy"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T01:39Z 930.4K followers, 13.3K engagements
"Sheer survivalof his regime and of himselfis often the aim that best explains many of Putins political decisions at home and abroad wrote @sbg1 in a 2019 essay"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T12:44Z 930.4K followers, 9592 engagements
"After the war in Ukraine Russia will be as ready for the new way of war as any other state writes @MassDara. To avoid falling behind Washington and European capitals must study Russias studyingand then start making their own changes"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T02:53Z 930.5K followers, 6298 engagements
"Virtually every piece of research suggests that restricting immigration and trade will not stop companies from adopting AI. In fact it may hasten layoffs. What would an effective strategy for addressing large-scale AI disruption look like"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T14:41Z 930.4K followers, 4645 engagements
"Even if a military intervention in Venezuela began well U.S. forces would likely find themselves bogged down in the messy work of keeping the peace and rebuilding institutions for years to come wrote Frank Mora in a 2019 essay"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T18:06Z 930.4K followers, 5733 engagements
"Chinas annexation of Taiwan would send a dangerous signal that small democracies cannot survive in the shadow of strong autocracies writes @FEIFAN_LIN the deputy secretary-general of Taiwans National Security Council"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T13:43Z 930.5K followers, 7746 engagements
"Given the contentious domestic dynamics around U.S.-Israeli relations it will take political courage for any U.S. administration to pressure Israel to curb its expanding militarism write @JoostHiltermann and @NatashaHallDCT"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T20:28Z 930.5K followers, 7067 engagements
"The United States is approaching the point at which the national debt could undermine not only the countrys economic stability but also the things that have sustained its global power for so many decades warns @krogoff"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-05T23:32Z 930.4K followers, 6263 engagements
"Along with targeted diplomatic efforts sanctions can raise the costs of the juntas overreliance on Beijing and encourage its leaders to consider reforms that are more in line with U.S. interests write Dan Swift and Sean Turnell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-07T02:06Z 930.4K followers, 5805 engagements
"To prevent a renewed war in Gaza the United States must keep up its pressure on Israeland the Arab states will need to maintain their pressure on Hamas argues former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T15:50Z 930.4K followers, 4977 engagements
"On the latest episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview @MassDara discusses how the Russian military is adapting to the future of warfare:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T11:36Z 930.4K followers, 6839 engagements
"To help sustain the Gaza deal in the weeks ahead Washington must show a clear commitment to following up providing incentives for compliance and imposing sanctions for violations writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T21:21Z 930.4K followers, 6389 engagements
"The deal is a long way from peace in the Middle East. I would call it more of a respite from the hell of the past two years and an opportunity to move forward. Read @PhilGordonDCs Q&A with Editor @dankurtzphelan:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T09:01Z 930.4K followers, 4062 engagements
"The global consensus against the starvation weapon took decades to achieve writes Alex de Waal. Now international apathy risks letting it collapse at the moment it is most needed"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T06:29Z 930.5K followers, 6393 engagements
"For Israel the cold reality is that its security will suffer more from remaining this isolated than it will from abandoning Netanyahus goal: the complete subjugation of Hamas in Gaza writes @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T00:51Z 930.4K followers, 5902 engagements
"To limit Chinas domination of Southeast Asia the United States should strengthen its ties with Vietnam and Thailandthe two countries on the margins of Beijings zone of influence argues @SusannahCPatton"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T04:09Z 930.4K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Trumps cease-fire plan is deliberately vague allowing both Israel and Hamas to claim a narrative of triumph writes @ShiraEfron. How will the parties handle the deals ambiguity"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T17:59Z 930.5K followers, 5824 engagements
"From Beijings perspective a U.S.-Chinese code of conduct for military encounters gives the United States a get-out-of-jail-free card allowing it to continue its freedom of navigation operations in the Indo-Pacific writes Kurt Campbell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-09T12:57Z 930.5K followers, 5883 engagements
"If the United States continues to ignore Myanmar it will risk further empowering the countrys military junta and solidifying Chinas powerful hold over the region warn Dan Swift and Sean Turnell"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-08T10:42Z 930.4K followers, 4793 engagements
"Put simply Hamas may play along with the first phase of the cease-fire. But the group is not done fighting. Read @Levitt_Matt on how Hamas is likely to navigate the weeks and months ahead:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T00:29Z 930.4K followers, 5146 engagements
"The United States should have done more sooner to try to end the war. In a new Q&A @PhilGordonDCwho served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harrisweighs in on Trumps cease-fire deal:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T13:04Z 930.4K followers, 5658 engagements
"In a Q&A with Senior Editor @evefairbanks Ami Ayalona former head of the Shin Bet Israels internal security agencydiscusses U.S. President Donald Trumps 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T15:27Z 930.4K followers, 5653 engagements
"What would an effective strategy for addressing large-scale AI disruption look like"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T12:34Z 930.4K followers, 5238 engagements
"I think the narrative that Trump uniquely bullied Netanyahu into a peace deal is wildly overstated including by Trump himself says @PhilGordonDC:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T13:12Z 930.4K followers, 16K engagements
"To prevent a renewed war in Gaza the United States must keep up its pressure on Israeland the Arab states will need to maintain their pressure on Hamas argues former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East @AmbDennisRoss"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T01:16Z 930.4K followers, 5943 engagements
"Read @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil on how Israels aggression is reshaping the Middle Eastand how the United States should respond:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T05:10Z 930.4K followers, 5798 engagements
"If Hamas refuses to disarm or continues attacks on Israeli soldiers or civilians Netanyahu will not hesitate to start the war again says @PhilGordonDC who served as national security adviser to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T13:19Z 930.4K followers, 8293 engagements
"The German jurist Carl Schmitt would have seen Chinas illiberal rise as the force pulling the United States away from liberalismironically in defense of a liberal international order writes @BennSteil"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-11T07:24Z 930.4K followers, 32.4K engagements
"In the Middle East regional elites are already hedging by cultivating China Europe Russia and other powers write @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil. This trend will only accelerate as long as the United States blithely backs Israel"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-05T00:20Z 930.4K followers, 35.3K engagements
"Read @sbg1s 2019 essay on the Wests long history of misreading Russiaand the perpetual uncertainty that has marked Putins rule:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T14:48Z 930.4K followers, 5302 engagements
"Trump does not want to be credible so much as he wants to gain the psychological upper hand to score quick victories writes @YarhiMilo. If that requires disregarding long-standing American commitments so be it"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T07:10Z 930.4K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Stabilizing the Middle East will require a new regional coalitionone with dedicated American backing argue @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T20:31Z 930.5K followers, 4877 engagements
"As authoritarian powers coordinate more closely the preservation of Indo-Pacific peace cannot rest on Taiwan alone argues @FEIFAN_LIN. How can other democracies help Taipei become more secure"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T11:29Z 930.4K followers, 4676 engagements
"To prepare for a potential conflict with China the United States should invest in expendable and autonomous systems such as disposable cargo drones and one-way gliders write Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-10T23:00Z 930.5K followers, 5182 engagements
"Although stopping the suffering in Gaza together with securing the release of hostages and prisoners is an urgent and necessary goal it remains only another form of cease-firenot a lasting peace writes Zeid Raad Al Hussein"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T22:00Z 930.4K followers, 4722 engagements
"The purge of honest and independent officials will have serious repercussions for U.S. foreign policy warns @MaxBoot. It is a recipe for the kind of groupthink that got the United States into the Vietnam and Iraq wars"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T10:18Z 930.4K followers, 5024 engagements
"NATO allies have steadfastly refused to intervene directly in the current war so any promise they make to fight Russia in a new one is simply not believable write @scharap and @JyShapiro. The Kremlin knows this better than anyone"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-07T14:57Z 930.4K followers, 6048 engagements
"There is a flaw in the Trump plans structure: it lacks a legitimate Palestinian partner writes @ShiraEfron. Equally unclear is the question of security"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T18:14Z 930.5K followers, 4386 engagements
"For the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas to succeed it will require delicate diplomatic choreography and sustained pressure on every stakeholder argues @ShiraEfron"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T01:41Z 930.4K followers, 6202 engagements
"The Trump administrations vision for the U.S. military which abandons the militarys nonpartisan tradition will make it more difficult to defend Americans against serious threats from abroad argues Risa Brooks"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-07T03:19Z 930.4K followers, 5675 engagements
"Taiwan is committed to achieving peace through strength by going beyond military readiness to strengthen whole-of-society resilience writes @FEIFAN_LIN. There should be no doubt about Taiwans determination to defend its future and its freedom"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T20:42Z 930.4K followers, 8258 engagements
"Former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East @AmbDennisRoss explains how the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas came togetherand considers how Arab countries and the United States can help prevent a return to fighting:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T14:03Z 930.4K followers, 6897 engagements
"Having fought a brutal war both sides need to understand that the cost of failure is too highand the benefits of compliance however messy too greatfor the deal to collapse writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T13:30Z 930.4K followers, 4478 engagements
"In the Middle East regional elites are already hedging by cultivating China Europe Russia and other powers write @GalipDalay and @SanamVakil. This trend will only accelerate as long as the United States blithely backs Israel"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T05:25Z 930.4K followers, 7418 engagements
"If the United States channels its renewed assertiveness and if local actors can align their power with purpose the Middle East may finally move from perpetual crisis management into a sustainable order write @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T14:56Z 930.5K followers, 4218 engagements
"To keep U.S. forces stocked with ammunition fuel and food in the opening phase of a conflict with Chinaeven if Beijing cuts off supply lines across the PacificWashington must invest in expendable and autonomous logistics systems write Maximilian Bremer and @ka_grieco"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T18:19Z 930.4K followers, 7139 engagements
"If the United States fails to honor its promised transfer of submarines to Australia Canberras faith in Washingtons reliability as an ally already rocked by Trump would be shaken even more writes James Curran"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T17:12Z 930.4K followers, 7508 engagements
"Read @sbg1s 2019 essay on how the West has underestimated Russian President Vladimir Putin throughout his rule:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-12T19:23Z 930.5K followers, 10.9K engagements
"A phased approach addressing the challenges of both immediate de-escalation and long-term transitional management has for decades been the most viable strategy to ending conflicts in the Middle East writes @HamzawyAmr"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T23:06Z 930.4K followers, 4038 engagements
"As more companies adopt AI more voters may embrace nativist policies write @BeaMagistro @SBorwein @rmichaelalvarez @bartbonikowski and @PeejLoewen. It is easier after all to be angry at foreign workers than it is to be angry at technological progress"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-14T00:07Z 930.4K followers, 6253 engagements
"To help stabilize the Middle East the United States should help facilitate Israels integration with its Arab neighbors argue @YadlinAmos and Avner Golov"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-15T23:43Z 930.5K followers, 4059 engagements
"If the United States reneges on its promise to transfer submarines to Australia it will cast a dark shadow over the U.S.-Australian relationshipand the tremors would be felt in Manila Seoul Taipei and Tokyo too writes James Curran"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-08T20:26Z 930.5K followers, 6726 engagements
"Read @HamzawyAmr on how the international and regional guarantors of the Gaza deal can ensure successful transitions from one phase of the agreement to the nextand lay the groundwork for a more lasting settlement for Gaza"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-13T19:48Z 930.5K followers, 6334 engagements
"Read @scharap and @JyShapiro on how American and European leaders can craft security guarantees for Ukraine that both Kyiv and Moscow will find credible:"
X Link @ForeignAffairs 2025-10-09T23:57Z 930.4K followers, 6571 engagements