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...
Ron DeSantis expands on his Ukraine position in response to a questionnaire from Tucker Carlson:While the U.S. has many vital national interests – securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence,...
The “peace president” is at it again:Now a candidate, Trump is reviving his hawkish instincts toward the drug lords. He has already vowed to deploy US special forces to take on drug cartels, “just as we took down ISIS and the ISIS caliphate.”In one policy video...
Stephen Walt is underwhelmed by the Biden administration’s diplomatic performance to date:I raise this issue because the Biden administration took office vowing to put diplomacy at the center of U.S. foreign policy, yet it has relatively few diplomatic achievements to...
The White House says that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping US troops in Syria:Kirby added that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping American troops in Syria, where they are stationed to fight back any remnants of ISIS forces.US troops have no business...
Near the end of an Associated Press report on Vice President Harris’ visit to Africa this week, John Kirby, a national security spokesman for the White House, was quoted saying this:John Kirby, a White House national security spokesman, said this past week that...
The AUKUS deal for nuclear-powered submarines has come under a lot of fire in Australia this week: Stephen Wertheim makes a compelling case that the Iraq war was the result of pursuing a strategy of primacy, and the US has still not abandoned that pursuit:After the...
The AUKUS deal for nuclear-powered submarines has come under a lot of fire in Australia this week:Ex-Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating condemned the center-left Labor government’s deal with the US and UK to obtain nuclear submarines, saying the nation’s military...
State Department spokesman Ned Price answered a question on North Korea diplomacy today, and his answer unwittingly demonstrated the folly of the US approach:On your first question, it unfortunately is a purely hypothetical question. It’s an academic question, because...
In a new paper for the Cato Institute, Justin Logan gets to the heart of why US allies don’t take on a larger share of the burden for their own security: The only way to produce more equitable burdensharing is to make allies doubt the strength of the US commitment:...
