Friday NatSec Roundup

This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about.

• There’s a Weaponized Interdependence conference going on today at the Fletcher School at Tufts, including friends-of-the-blog Henry Farrell and Dan Drezner. Live-streaming here…
• We’re not leaving Syria, we’re just letting the Kurds get massacred.
• Dmitry Gorenburg on how Russia approaches security problems in Scandinavia…
• Said it before and I’ll say it again, Kim has an enormous amount of leverage over Trump because of the latter’s need to get a “win” before the 2020 election. We’ll see how it goes…
• The NBA is, like, really bad at this. Public relations professionals should not be so bad at this.
• Okay so maybe I’ll try to check it out from the library but I kinda do want to read John Bolton’s book.