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...
Emma Ashford is appropriately withering in her comments on the Biden administration’s Global Posture Review:The main problem with the posture review is that it was completely irrelevant. I’m honestly not sure how the Pentagon managed to take a year to come to such...
Giorgio Cafiero notes near the end of a new article on Israel and Iran that Iranian nuclear weapons are not a foregone conclusion if the Vienna talks fail and the agreement collapses:Iran’s nuclear activities seem designed to be mainly about boosting the country’s...
Fred Kaplan is puzzled by Biden’s failure to rejoin the nuclear deal quickly:More puzzling than Trump messing things up, though, is why President Joe Biden – who, during the campaign, said he would bring back the deal – didn’t move to do so right after entering office...
The top official in the Biden administration working on the Middle East gets something important very wrong. Brett McGurk said this last week:And when it came to military force for behavior change, that is a pretty fuzzy objective for a military force. When it comes...
Walter Russell Mead tries his hand at being a conspiracy theorist:Our adversaries – and some of our allies as well as several American policy makers and commentators – believe that a polarized America is locked into decline and retreat. This is not, the revisionist...
NBC News reports on the bankrupt “Plan B” options being considered by the Biden administration if nuclear talks in Vienna aren’t successful:As Iran and world powers prepare to resume negotiations next week on reviving a nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies are...
Richard Haass dismisses negotiations in Vienna to salvage the nuclear deal, and then makes this assertion:And even if they do [succeed], any agreement will not resolve Iran’s push for regional primacy – or for nuclear weapons.If Iran were seeking “regional primacy,”...
