Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Trump threatened to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups this week:President Trump said in an interview posted online Tuesday that he planned to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations,...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Trump administration is about to hand Israel another gift in support of its illegal occupation:Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to announce on Monday that the U.S. is softening its position on Israeli...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.A new AP report calls attention to the illegality of the U.S. military mission in Syria:President Donald Trump has approved an expanded military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria, raising a...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.New START is the last major arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, and the Trump administration is going to let it die:New Start expires in February 2021, just weeks after the next presidential inauguration in...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.U.S. troops sent into Syria on an illegal and pointless mission to “take the oil” don’t know what they are supposed to be doing:US military commanders overseeing Syria operations are still waiting for...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Pentagon used the president’s fixation on plunder to get him to agree to maintaining a U.S. military presence in Syria:A US official with knowledge of operations in Syria said that Trump’s interest in...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.NATO expansion stumbles on mindlessly like a zombie:The U.S. Senate approved the accession of North Macedonia to NATO in a 91-2 vote Tuesday, meaning the small Balkan nation is a step closer to becoming NATO’s...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose:“Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose,” added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. “The...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Yemen’s cholera epidemic and humanitarian crisis threaten to get even worse:A children’s advocacy group is warning of a spike in cholera cases in northern Yemen affecting hundreds of thousands of children and...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.There are a lot of questionable assumptions informing this New York Times piece about Syria and U.S. support for the YPG. This quote from Stavridis sets the tone for the entire article:“In the course of American...
