Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Matt Lee reports on the Trump administration obsessive use of sanctions:Call it the diplomacy of coercion. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.The Saudi coalition and its proxies are once again fighting among themselves as the UAE-backed separatists rose up against the Hadi government and seized control of most of Aden:Yemeni separatists took over most of the...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Bobby Ghosh wants the U.S. to “stay the course” in its destructive Iran policy:For critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy, all this is reason enough to declare the “maximum pressure” campaign a...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.When Trump said he was considering a blockade of Venezuela yesterday, it was possible to dismiss it as a meaningless statement that would have no policy implications. Unfortunately, Trump seems to have meant what he...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Joe Sestak, a retired admiral and one of the many 2020 Democratic candidates for president, makes a solid case in favor of rejoining the JCPOA and against war with Iran:Having served in the military, I know that...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.See if you can spot the flaw in the Trump administration’s new arms control initiative:President Trump is sending a high-level delegation to meet with Russian counterparts in Geneva this week to pursue an arms...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Warnings of famine are increasing in Venezuela, and U.S. sanctions are responsible for driving the country over the edge:In a new study, Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodriguez at New York brokerage Torino Capital set...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The House passed two amendments to the defense authorization bill yesterday related to the war on Yemen. The first prohibited the administration from using funds to support the Saudi coalition:But the most consequential...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Chicago Council on Global Affairs recently released the results of a new survey on U.S. public opinion on arms sales and the U.S.-Saudi relationship:As Congress weighs the decision by the Trump Administration to...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Stephen Kinzer comments on the creation of a new think tank, The Quincy Institute, committed to promoting a foreign policy of restraint and non-interventionism:Since peaceful foreign policy was a founding principle of...
