Whenever a high-profile general disparages Trump, his opinion makes headlines. The sentiments of ordinary soldiers, and veterans, get much less attention.
Tag: Foreign Policy
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Neocon Pitfalls for Trump 2.0
Former Trump advisor Robert C. O’Brien began campaigning for a spot in the next Trump admin by penning an unhinged neocon manifesto. Unfortunately, O’Brien may soon find his way into the second Trump admin.
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NeverVancers Are the New NeverTrumpers
The usual suspects are out in force to undermine J. D. Vance as antithetical to Reagan’s realism merely because he repudiates George W. Bush’s disasters.
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Foreign Policy Splits the Parties
When it comes to foreign policy America’s two political parties are split—not so much against each other—but against themselves.
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Pulling the Plug on NATO
Every pro-NATO argument is really an argument for its abolition—in the eyes of America's patriotic realists.
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George Kennan: Gadfly and Insider
There is a lot more to George Kennan than his policy of Soviet containment. This influential man, who never held a real position of power, was a bundle of contradictions.
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The Swamp Boils at the Thought of Trump Leaving NATO
Now that Trump is the likely frontrunner in the next presidential election, Washington is forced to envision the possibility that he intends to curtail America’s commitments overseas.
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Global Implications of U.S. Failure in Ukraine
After Ukraine, Beltway grandees will have to choose between accepting that America is but one great power among other great powers in a multipolar world, or continuing to pursue their insane obsession with America being the world’s “benevolent global hegemon.”
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Living in Interesting Times
The public discourse in both hemispheres seems to be legitimizing the coming of World War III. These are interesting—if not terrifying—times.
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War in the Democratic Party—and at the Opera
In art as in politics, liberals find wickedness only in our own institutions.
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Liberals’ Dilemma: Immigration or Israel?
American internationalism was shaped by the national origins of Americans themselves, so it’s not surprising it shifts with shifts in those origins.
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Kissinger in China
Henry Kissinger’s fears and misgivings about the future of U.S.-Chinese relations may prove just as prophetic as George Kennan's warnings about Russia and NATO expansion.
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Russia Blues
The Ukrainian campaign is not just the fight to retain strategic depth along Russia’s vulnerable southwestern flank; it is also the struggle to retain its status as a great power. The Biden administration is now more than ready for reckless escalation, a deadly game of chicken with nuclear stakes. The future is dark.
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Letter From Austria: Freedom Party Rising
A historic electoral win by the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party in the country’s largest state shows that the ire of the easygoing Austrians has been stoked against unchecked immigration and the overbearing European Union
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Letter From Istanbul: A Beleaguered Sultan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a wily, seasoned politician who identifies Turkey with himself. Even his opponents privately admit that it is hard to imagine his orderly departure from the helm.
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Europe Diminished
The foreign policy consensus between Europe and the U.S. leads only to unnecessary new wars abroad and to the suicide pact of multiculturalism at home.