Edward Luce
@EdwardGLuce
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Associate Ed at the FT, US-based writer/columnist. Author of Zbig, America's Cold War Prophet. On the Economist, Foreign Affairs, FT & Wapo's best books of 2025
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Joined October 2011
"Trump, in his way, is as much of a wolf as Putin. Europe has run out of excuses to pretend otherwise". My Swamp Notes with @MESandbu on why Europe must make those frozen Russian assets work for Ukraine. The time for that is now.
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The EU faces a historic choice: whether or not to unlock frozen Russian assets and save the Ukrainian war effort
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As a European I would love to see America return to its civilizational values.
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A Yemeni Store owner who is a legal U.S citizen tells ICE agents to get out of his store unless they have papers meaning a signed Judicial Warrant! 👇
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Anyone who cares about Europe's future and who loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe could take.
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Contentious proposal to fund Ukraine would mark watershed moment for EU
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What a pos.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike? HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the
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Ever year, @ForeignAffairs publishes hundreds of book reviews, taking in both big trade titles and more niche academic works. Here's our selection of the best books we covered in 2025, featuring @EdwardGLuce @kathsstewart @JosephTorigian @JohnCassidy and many others. Link below.
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"America is being led by men whom senior brass do not respect. Trump's message is that laws are for wimps. Eisenhower said plans are worthless but planning is everything. If Trump goes for regime change, it will be on the basis of Hegseth’s planning." Me.
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Conducting foreign policy, let alone war, by meme is dangerous and foolish
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Maga has taken DC power dining to a whole new level — Edward Luce
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In Trump’s Washington, espresso Martinis, beef tallow and members’ clubs have replaced puritanical dinners and warm white reception wine
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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 at Halifax Security Forum: "For 4 years, Ukraine has been fighting for the whole of Europe. NATO was created to fight one war — not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria — one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only
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Hear @EdwardGLuce @JaipurLitFest 15th-19th January 2026
So glad to see "Zbig" by @EdwardGLuce named as one of the 50 Notable Non-Foction Books of the Year by the @washingtonpost. A terrific biography of one of the most important foreign policy figures of modern times.
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Both of you please… get a room.
"Indians running global businesses," says William Dalrymple amid Macaulay mindset debate. https://t.co/qencTvrRWA via @indiatoday
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Noah Smith is the closest thing to a total intellectual fraud you can find (even worse than @charlesmurray). He even admitted reviewing an economics book without reading it. Don't bet that he read anything of Orwell beyond the titles on Amazon.
Makes no sense. Orwell was a socialist. Noah Smith and Matt Yglesias's hatred of leftists has grown hugely over the last two years and evidently derives from being negatively polarized by the left's criticism of Israel and its ethnic cleansing.
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So glad to see "Zbig" by @EdwardGLuce named as one of the 50 Notable Non-Foction Books of the Year by the @washingtonpost. A terrific biography of one of the most important foreign policy figures of modern times.
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The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.
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Fully agree with my paper's editorial on Trump. Ukraine needs Europe to stop flattering Trump the conman and take a clear stand for its own survival and values.
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Latest Ukraine peace plan presented by the US would be a capitulation to Moscow
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"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column.
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Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield
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Also on Economist’s books of 2025 and in good company
Delighted to see Zbig on the Wapo's best non-fiction of 2025, though because it begins with Z it appears last.
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This is the sense of entitlement and detachment from reality that led Biden to make the tragically misguided decision to run, to his own detriment and the country's. His chief counselor did him no favors then, and is doing him no favors now with nonsense like this!
đź‘€"The Democratic Party lost its mind!" Pres. Biden's senior advisor Mike Donilon on Pres. Biden being pressured to drop out of the 2024 race: "I thought it was disloyal...an act of betrayal against the President...undemocratic...and...politically stupid." I spoke to Donilon
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