From The American Conservative:Philip Gordon has written a smart article in Foreign Affairs explaining why policies of regime change fail even when they initially “succeed” in toppling the targeted government. He concludes:Regime change will always tempt...
From The American Conservative:Jason Rezaian observes that the Trump administration missed its opportunity to change the relationship with Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi’s murder two years ago, and he spells out what the U.S. needs to do now:When MBS arrived on...
From The American Conservative:Priyanka Motaparthy calls attention to the possible expansion of the drone war into Kenya:The U.S. military is seeking new authorities to expand its program of lethal drone strikes into Kenya, in order to target al-Shabab fighters in the...
From The American Conservative:Geoff Ramsey calls for an overdue change to U.S. policy towards Venezuela:After a year and a half of diminishing returns since recognizing Juan Guaido as interim president and imposing crippling oil sanctions, US strategy in Venezuela...
Empire Has No Clothes podcast at The American Conservative On this episode, Danny Sjursen, an Iraq and Afghanistan War veteran-turned antiwar activist, talks about the most recent rift between Trump and the military and what veterans really think about the president...
From The American Conservative:The Trump administration recently touted an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo that has proven to be much less than it appeared. Majda Ruge explains:Despite the unpredictability that surrounded the negotiations, one thing was clear from...
From The American Conservative:Richard Haass and David Sacks make the case for the very dangerous idea of explicitly committing the U.S. to defend Taiwan:The policy known as strategic ambiguity has, however, run its course. Ambiguity is unlikely to deter an...
From The American Conservative:Following last week’s humiliating rebuke of the US at the Security Council, Mike Pompeo is going to the United Nations in a transparent, bad-faith effort to trigger the so-called “snapback” provision to reimpose U.N....
From The American Conservative:Joshua Landis and Steven Simon detail the cruel and destructive effects of U.S. sanctions on the people of Syria:The Trump administration designed the sanctions it has now imposed on Syria to make reconstruction impossible. The sanctions...
From The American Conservative:The State Department attempted to spin the results of the Inspector General investigation into the bogus emergency that Pompeo declared to expedite arms sales to the Saudis and the UAE last year, but the full report included some damning...
