Peter Beinart makes an interesting observation about the way most U.S. policymakers understand “great power competition” with China and Russia:What prevails today in Washington’s halls of power is a defense of unipolarity dressed up as a recognition that unipolarity...
A Saudi coalition airstrike on a prison killed at least 60 people and wounded at least 100 more in northern Yemen as part of the coalition’s reprisal attacks after the Houthis claimed drone and missile attacks that hit targets in Abu Dhabi earlier this week:At least...
Walter Russell Mead does a good job of making Russia hawks look ridiculous:As the Ukrainian crisis deepens, there is only one option that would stop a Russian invasion – and that is the one that all the serious players in Washington say is off the table: dispatching...
Evelyn Farkas, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, goes full alarmist:The world will watch our response. Any subsequent acceptance of Russian gains will spell the beginning of the end of the international order. If Europe, NATO, and its allies in Asia...
Walter Russell Mead wants you to know that Things Are Happening in The World and Biden has not somehow magically stopped them from happening:Last week Russian troops fanned out across Kazakhstan; the Myanmar junta sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in...
Geoff Ramsey urges Biden to change the stagnant Venezuela policy that he inherited from Trump:As he usually does, Joe Lieberman is banging war drums:A great Roman general said a long time ago, “If you want peace, prepare for war.” That is wise counsel worth following...
Geoff Ramsey urges Biden to change the stagnant Venezuela policy that he inherited from Trump:After 11 months in office, the administration has not significantly altered US policy. Indeed, in January 2022, Biden will almost certainly reemphasize the Trump...
Fred Kagan is on the warpath as usual:Americans and Europeans must understand that Ukraine’s independence is of vital import – for ourselves as well as Ukraine – and must act accordingly. That is also the best way to deter Putin.Kagan’s column is as wrong as can be,...
Matt Yglesias embraces the hypocrisy of Biden’s democracy summit and calls for even more of it: The fight for democracy is too important to conduct on ideological grounds alone; to win, the US will need an appropriate amount of realpolitik. America can say it cares...
Edward Luce has a very strange recollection of the last 15 years:The US public turned against overseas militarism when the Iraq war began to go wrong under George W Bush. It has stayed that way ever since. Fifteen years on, it is easy to presume American...
