by Daniel Larison | Dec 22, 2021 | News
Geoff Ramsey urges Biden to change the stagnant Venezuela policy that he inherited from Trump:After 11 months in office, the administration has not significantly altered US policy. Indeed, in January 2022, Biden will almost certainly reemphasize the Trump...
by Daniel Larison | Dec 2, 2021 | News
Fred Kaplan is puzzled by Biden’s failure to rejoin the nuclear deal quickly:More puzzling than Trump messing things up, though, is why President Joe Biden – who, during the campaign, said he would bring back the deal – didn’t move to do so right after entering office...
by Gilbert Doctorow | Nov 30, 2021 | News
In the past couple of weeks, nearly every one of my peers in the community of analysts – Russia watchers has weighed in on Russia’s possible plans to invade Ukraine. We have been given detailed breakdowns of the forces and equipment which Russia has moved...
by Daniel Larison | Nov 29, 2021 | News
The top official in the Biden administration working on the Middle East gets something important very wrong. Brett McGurk said this last week:And when it came to military force for behavior change, that is a pretty fuzzy objective for a military force. When it comes...
by Edward Curtin | Nov 15, 2021 | News
Since the annual U.S. Veterans Day holiday honoring military veterans was just observed on November 11, it seems more than appropriate to suggest the creation of a US Victims Day, just as in a similar effort at truth in labeling, the Defense Department should be...
