The horrible dangers of pushing a US proxy war in Ukraine
If there is indeed a shift in strategy to another level of confrontation with Russia, we need to know what we’re getting into.
If there is indeed a shift in strategy to another level of confrontation with Russia, we need to know what we’re getting into.
During the Cold War, events didn’t unfold the way U.S. policy makers expected. They never do.
Does Moscow really want to invade Ukraine? No more than it really wanted to take West Berlin by force in 1958-61.
Though separated by decades, both wars were driven by a doomed commitment to American exceptionalism and ever-expanding hegemony.
Right out of the playbook: hype the threat of a potential Chinese naval base facing the Atlantic, get more funding for military operations.
Washington shouldn’t be surprised, after years of building and leading security bulwarks against both countries.
It could mean all the destructive things created by the War on
Terror — increased by several orders of magnitude.
But there’s a prevailing view that the EU is more aligned with Washington’s military competition with China and Russia.
The president says he doesn’t want ‘a world divided into rigid blocs’ while at the same time dividing the world into rigid blocs.
If Biden clings to a calcified and militarized conception of national security — as he appears intent on doing — he will put his entire presidency at risk.
What would our world actually be like if you simply declared peace and came home?
The anti-Russian Blob has taken its first scalp in the Biden Administration, torpedoing an esteemed expert’s appointment to the NSC.
The U.S. military’s new emphasis on near-peer conflicts will undoubtedly help funnel trillions of dollars into yet more weaponry, including a revamped nuclear arsenal
His team has so far sounded more like Trump than the departure from the past it promised during the campaign.
The Biden administration’s goal of building an international coalition to confront and “contain” China is at odds its goal of addressing climate change.
A quick look back at the original Cold War should remind us that we’ll all pay a price of some sort for intensifying hostility towards China.
A series of critical blunders over the last few decades have exposed many of the U.S.’s weaknesses.
A parallel narrative that unfolded alongside the post-9/11 wars exposes the utter irrelevance of the national security state as currently constituted.
Advocates of an alternative approach to U.S. foreign policy must understand that although this is surely a policy fight, but it’s more fundamentally a paradigm fight.
Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990.
“Globalization worked nicely for some, but left behind tens of millions of Americans, with an unprecedented gap between the rich and the not rich one result.”