When I received an invitation from Elliot Resnick, former editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn, New York-based Jewish Press to record a podcast devoted to the Ukraine-Russia war, I was delighted to have an opportunity to address an audience that, until his untimely death...
Gideon Levy condemns the State Department’s whitewashing of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh:It’s difficult to imagine a more clumsy, unprofessional, ridiculous and even insulting mobilization in the service of Israeli propaganda. Once again it has been proven that...
On COI #298, Kyle Anzalone discusses the White House's commitment to Ukraine's military ambitions but ignores realities that demand diplomacy. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
The Russian war in Ukraine understandably gets most of US foreign policy news coverage. But we should not ignore the 18 month effort, or lack thereof, of the Biden administration to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal.That...
From Responsible Statecraft: According to the state department on Wednesday, Washington is slapping new sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical producers, along with Hong Kong and Emirati companies accused of selling the oil on East Asia markets in violation...
United States military analysts love strategies and the theories behind them. The theories provide what appear to be perfectly reasonable and rational approaches to warfighting, even offering a sense of certainty about the outcome. After all, they’ve been...
Tom McTague praises America’s “necessary myth”:The dumb simplicity of America’s interventions is often infuriating and obtuse, or even disastrously naive and destructive. It exists in people like Neal and Holbrooke, Bush and Biden. And yet if America stops believing...
On COI #297, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest Western escalations in the proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
As Ukraine continues to lose ground in the east, its leaders are inexplicably demanding three-quarters of a trillion dollars to "reconstruct" areas controlled by Russia. Once widely considered the most corrupt country in Europe, Western leaders have already dumped in...
On COI #295, Kyle Anzalone discusses news from Ukraine, Germany and Iraq. Kyle also breaks down the Pentagon's recruitment problem. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
