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The zombification of US national security
North America

The zombification of US national security

Time to drive a stake through the heart of these establishmentarian ideas, which are super dysfunctional but never seem to die.

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Washington Politics

Survey: Americans want to scale back military entanglements

But Morning Consult should be taken to task for calling this impulse a 'preference for isolationism' versus 'engagement.'

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Washington Politics

The battle for who owns 'conservative statecraft'

Former Bush/Trump era interventionist Nadia Schadlow wants to claim the label, but this author is drawing a hard line in the sand.

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Europe

Rand Paul: Promoting negotiations over war doesn't make you a Putin sympathizer

The senator told a friendly audience of conservatives that there is no reason to 'throw out our principal beliefs.'

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Asia-Pacific

No 'Putin apologia' and certainly not new: the Old American Right on war

This is actually your great-grandfather's non-interventionist conservatism, and it is making a comeback.

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North America

How the Blob mislabels 'allies' to manipulate and get its way

The US has a bad habit of acquiring clients and partners and exaggerating their importance to justify continued entanglements.