Below is a video of the talk Scott Horton and I gave at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC this month. We were initially scheduled to give the talk together, but due to weather conditions Scott was delayed. I handle the first half of...
Writing in the Boston Globe about the U.S.-Russian jockeying in Ukraine, Stephen Kinzer has it exactly right: From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other...
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a "breach of international law." Secretary of State John Kerry followed up by declaring that Russia is...
This is something Secretary of State John Kerry actually said. It is not from The Onion: "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext." He was criticizing Russia's incursions into...
Originally published at LobeLog, reprinted with permission.In my 30 years as the Washington DC bureau chief for Inter Press Service, only one institution has denied me admission to their press or public events. That was the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) shortly...
The Bibi who cried wolf:
Report from Thursday, February 26, 2014 (today): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry decried what he called a "new isolationism" in the United States on Wednesday and suggested that the country was beginning to behave like a poor nation. Speaking to reporters, Kerry...
In response to the revolution in Ukraine, Moscow has ordered a 150,000-troop Russian military exercise in the semi-autonomous region of Crimea, right on Ukraine’s border. Amid the commotion, pro and anti- Russian residents residents of Crimea have protested. Dmitri...
Writing at The National Interest, Robert Haddick, an independent contractor with U.S. Special Operations Command, welcomes "getting tough" on China. He argues that Washington has been too accommodating to China's regional ambitions and has thus failed to provide a...
The U.S. State Department announced yesterday that it was expelling three Venezuelan diplomats after "similar action against three U.S. consular officials in Caracas." When nations expel diplomats from their respective countries, it is an indication tensions are...
