Matt Boyse

Manager, Zeit seines Lebens im freien und sicheren Europ lebend, bezeichnet die Drohnenherstellung ukrainischer Frauen ("Hausfrauen") als "spielen mit Lego". Diese Arroganz.

Today’s BFF JUNTO Fireside Chat in Washington, D.C. featured @StateDRL Assistant Secretary Riley M. Barnes in conversation with @Matt_Boyse on re-balancing human rights in U.S. foreign policy and @StateDept. A timely and substantive discussion at @HudsonInstitute. #ForeignPolicy #HumanRights #Diplomacy

Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Riley Barnes joined Senior Fellow Matthew Boyse for a discussion on the administration’s priorities of aligning human rights with US national interests and constitutional principles. @StateDRL @Matt_Boyse

I despise Al Jazeera. But this analysis by Exeter University professor Muhanad Seloom is worth reading: • “Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war without a plan. Iran is retaliating across the region. Oil prices are surging, and the world is facing another Middle Eastern quagmire. US senators have called it a blunder. Cable news has tallied the crises. Commentators have warned of a long war.” • “But this narrative is wrong. Not because the costs are imaginary, but because the critics are measuring the wrong things. They are cataloguing the price of the campaign while ignoring the strategic ledger.” • “When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power – its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture – the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.” • “When proxies launch retaliatory attacks across the region, this is not evidence of an expanding network; it is evidence of predelegated response authority, which is what a centralised command system activates when it anticipates its own destruction. Predelegation is a sign of desperation, not strength. It means the centre can no longer coordinate. The attacks will continue, but they will become increasingly uncoordinated, strategically incoherent and politically costly for the host states where these groups operate.” • “Seventeen days in, Iran’s supreme leader is dead, his successor is reportedly wounded and every principal instrument of Iranian power projection – missiles, nuclear infrastructure, air defences, the navy, proxy command networks – has been degraded beyond near-term recovery. The campaign’s execution has been imperfect, its public communication poor and its post-conflict planning incomplete. War is never clean. But the strategy – the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles – is working.” aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…

Foreign dollars (often with strings attached) have been flowing into U.S. universities. It’s time the American people find out exactly who’s paying — and at what cost. Starting now, my office will take a brand-new role in partnership with @usedgov and Under Secretary Kent delivering on @POTUS’s executive order to bring transparency to foreign money in U.S. higher education and research.⬇️

NATO Chief Mark Rutte: “If anyone thinks that the EU or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the United States keep on dreaming.”

The Catholic Left is unhappy with @BishopBarron of @WordOnFire, again. Here are my thoughts on what he means to the rest of us. Especially now. catholicculture.org/commentary/bee…

The Polish debate surrounding the EU SAFE mechanism and President @NawrockiKn’s veto of the implementing bill has been heated and has already attracted significant international attention. Here is my take on what is actually at stake. The real issue is not simply access to financing. It is whether rapid defense funding can, over time, narrow sovereign discretion in procurement, favor certain industrial structures, and reshape the balance between national security decision-making and EU-level control. This may be of interest to colleagues and analysts following the debate on European defense financing and its implications for sovereignty, industrial policy, and the transatlantic security architecture 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇸: @TomRoseIndy @RC_Greenway @codydsargent @WilsonCBeaver @NileGardiner @daniel_flesch @peterrough @Matt_Boyse @LukeDCoffey @MikeWatsonVa @JOlidort @MatthewTyrmand @wojcikrp @vtchakarova @Heritage @HudsonInstitute @A1Policy

Denis Alimov, FSB Alfa veteran and senior operative of Russia's new and "most secretive" assassination unit, walked into El Dorado Airport in Bogotá on Feb 24 looking like a tourist heading to Cartagena. He walked out in handcuffs. He was undone by Google Translate. 🧵New @TheInsider investigation with @DerSpiegel — thread below.

The victim who was murdered at Old Dominion University was Lt. Col. Brandon Shah.  May God bless his soul.

This is what it takes to move an army. The C-5 Galaxy is so massive that the Wright Brothers' entire first flight could have happened inside its cargo bay. It can carry two M1 Abrams tanks, six Apache helicopters, or literally fit an entire C-130 Hercules inside of it. 28 wheels. Four engines producing the power of 800 cars. Enough fuel for 31 trips around the world. And the best part? The nose and tail both open so you can drive a convoy straight through. - @MarioNawfal · 4h

Finally, good news from Georgia! 🇬🇪 After so long, what everyone has been waiting for has happened - the country's main opposition parties are standing together, united with a shared strategy and coordinated action against the "Georgian Dream" regime. 🟢 Today, 9 pro-Western parties - Ahali, Girchi, Droa, United National Movement, European Georgia, Strategy Aghmashenebeli, Federalists, Freedom Square and the National Democratic Party - officially formed a joint opposition alliance. "We, the Alliance of Democratic Opposition Parties of Georgia, agree on a shared strategy and coordinated rules of action. Through our united efforts, we will free Georgia from Bidzina Ivanishvili's autocratic rule, restore the country's Euro-Atlantic path and ensure democratic governance, national security, and the prosperity of the Georgian people!". 🔵 The agreement is based on the following principles: 1. Unity without uniformity – Each party maintains its ideological identity while committing to coordinated protest actions and a unified communication strategy. 2. A real democratic alternative - The alliance affirms that only a citizen-focused democratic alternative can defeat an autocratic regime. Decision-making will be based on equality among partners and the independent expression of political will, free from outside influence. 3. Political and civic consensus - The goal is to build broad public and political consensus through active societal engagement, defeat the current regime through free and fair elections and establish a democratic coalition government committed to essential reforms. 4. Code of conduct - The participating parties agree to a code of conduct regulating relations among the signatories and establishing accountability for any violations. 5. Commitment to victory – The opposition alliance will fight until political prisoners are released and victory is achieved in free and fair elections.

In Iran, a moment as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Historische Stunden im Nahen Osten: Der entschlossene Einsatz der USA und Israels ermöglicht endlich den erhofften Wandel im #Iran. Nach Jahrzehnten unter der Herrschaft eines grausamen Terrorregimes bietet sich nun die Chance auf Freiheit und die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten. Wir unterstützen das iranische Volk bei seinem Streben nach Selbstbestimmung und fordern die islamistische Führung auf, den Weg endlich freizumachen. Die willkürlichen Angriffe des Regimes auf die Staaten in der Golfregion müssen sofort enden. Viel zu lange hat Iran den Nahen Osten mit brutaler Gewalt destabilisiert. Es ist Zeit für einen demokratischen Neuanfang und neue Menschlichkeit!

Amazing.

For decades, 1953 has been invoked as proof that the CIA toppled Mohammed Mossadegh, a democratically elected Iranian leader. But Mossadegh was neither a democrat nor democratically elected, nor was he toppled by nefarious foreigners. tabletmag.com/sections/israe…

Iranians dancing on European streets, celebrating the attack on the Islamic regime

BREAKING: “Khamenei, one of the most evil people in history, is dead”

BREAKING: In Tehran, people are cheering and celebrating amid reports of Khamenei's death.