From The American Conservative:Kori Schake objects to Biden’s foreign policy record on the grounds that he is not hawkish enough and too skeptical of military intervention. She restates a bankrupt hawkish view of U.S. military action: This half-in-half-out...
Endless War Comes Home
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The president ordered an attack on protesters to clear the way for a photo op last night, and he also threatened to deploy the military on American soil:When Trump had returned safely to the White House less than an...
The US Shouldn’t Get Involved in the Ladakh Standoff
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Tensions between India and China have been increasing over the last few weeks with a buildup of troops along a disputed border in eastern Ladakh. The buildup on the Chinese side appears to have been a response to Indian...
The Weakness of ‘Maximum Pressure’
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.An Iranian tanker delivered some gasoline to Venezuela this week, and this is how the report in The New York Times framed the event: Venezuela needs gasoline and has gold. Iran has oil but needs cash. Both Venezuela and...
The ‘Cost-Effective’ Coup and Other Myths
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Fresh off of his defense of the foreign policy “Blob,” Hal Brands suggests that the U.S. might get back into the business of covertly overthrowing foreign governments:Just as the US sought to undermine or...
No One Should Be Missing Kissinger
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Thomas Meaney debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger:Since leaving office, too, Kissinger has rarely challenged consensus, let alone offered the kind of inconvenient assessments that characterized the later career of...
Trump’s Contemptible War Powers Veto
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The president once again showed his contempt for the Constitution with his veto of another war powers resolution yesterday:President Trump vetoed a Senate resolution on Wednesday that would have required him to seek...
McMaster and the Myths of Empire
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Ethan Paul dismantles H.R. McMaster’s “analysis” of the Chinese government and shows how McMaster abuses the idea of strategic empathy for his own ends:But the reality is that McMaster, and others...
New START and the China Diversion
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.New START has a little over seven months left to live, and the Trump administration remains fixated on its impossible and bizarre condition of bringing China into the treaty:The Trump administration is increasingly set...
Pompeo’s Cynical Attack on the Nuclear Deal
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration has been desperately trying to kill the nuclear deal for the last two years after reneging on it. Now they will try to kill it by pretending to be part of it again:Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
