The Associated Press reports on a truly terrible idea that the Biden administration is considering: The US military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at...
Tom Friedman oversells the significance of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia:First, a U.S.-Saudi security pact that produces normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and the Jewish state – while curtailing Saudi-China relations – would be a game...
Marco Rubio demands that the US fully embraces the policy that already failed and caused massive suffering:To regain foreign policy coherence on Venezuela, we must return to the maximum pressure campaign of the Trump administration.It is a sign of how deranged the...
The Biden administration is making a huge mistake:President Biden has approved the provision of U.S. cluster munitions for Ukraine, with drawdown of the weapons from Defense Department stocks due to be announced Friday.The move, which will bypass U.S. law prohibiting...
The growing enthusiasm for a military option in Mexico just shows how addicted to military intervention many Republicans are.Ron DeSantis is trying to catch up with the other Republican hawks that want to attack Mexico:DeSantis, who’s trailing Trump in national polls...
Some House Democrats, including Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on the Biden administration to provide sanctions relief for Venezuela:A group of House Democrats called on the Biden administration to ease sanctions...
Nikki Haley asks silly questions: 4. Why is China infiltrating the Western Hemisphere? It’s not just the spy base in Cuba. Beijing is trying to turn almost every country in the Western Hemisphere against us, often using economic bribery. We need to get Chinese...
Francisco Rodriguez reports the findings of a new paper on the destructive effects of sanctions:The evidence decisively shows that sanctions make living conditions worse in target countries. I looked at 32 academic papers that estimated their effect. Of these, 30...
Surprising no one, Max Boot gets another important foreign policy call wrong:But if, in the future, South Korea does decide to go nuclear, it should not be a game changer for the United States. The United States has long tolerated nuclear weapons owned by friendly...
Walter Russell Mead cheerleads for the new Cold War:Today, the Chinese Communist Party has become an expansionist, tyrannical power whose inordinate ambition endangers freedom world-wide. America’s interests and values both lead us to oppose that ambition, even as we...
