Obama Did Not Call Putin’s Bluff: Will Biden?

(Includes a case study of events in Syria in Autumn 2015, when Obama took Putin seriously and avoided an armed clash.)President Joe Biden will get it wrong again if he heeds advisers telling him he can send heaps of more lethal weaponry into Ukraine without much risk...

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The Failed Air War Over Vietnam (video)

From Tales of the American Empire: There are glorious stories about American military aircraft bombing North Vietnam. None explain the effort failed. It cost billions of dollars, killed a million people, destroyed a small nation, and had little effect on the final...

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Cooperation, Not Competition, To Avoid Disaster

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US was unrivaled as a superpower. During the 1990s and, until about 2012, the US was relatively unconstrained in its use of military power in an attempt to get its way. However, often the use of military power was...

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America Sanctioning Itself Into Economic Decline

No one sanctions like America. Two or three dozen countries being destabilized with many thousands dying from lack of food, medicine and commerce makes no dent in Uncle Sam’s conscience.But there is an increasingly self-destructive downside to U.S. sanctions...

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