"We" -- to be precise, U.S. policymakers and their quasi-private-sector, tax-nourished enablers-beneficiaries-- must not police the world, become directly involved in wars, covertly assist belligerents, or act as arms merchants and bankers. The central government...
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Did Putin Kill Yevgeni Prigozhin?
by Ted Snider | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 23, 2023, Yevgeni Prigozhin’s plane crashed, ending the life of the leader of the Wagner private military group. Since then, little effort or ink has been spent on who is responsible for his murder. The West’s intrigue and attention was held as long as the...
No, We Cannot Fund Yet Another War
by Connor O'Keeffe | Oct 19, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, host Scott Pelley asked President Joe Biden, “Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?” The president answered, “We can take care of both of these and still maintain our...
What Will Be Mark Milley’s True Legacy?
by Connor Freeman | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Gen. Mark Milley retired on Friday [September 29] as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and handed over command to Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown. In 2019, Milley took up the post after being nominated by President Donald Trump. He oversaw massive...
Rage and the Meme Effect
by Kym Robinson | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.”- Ted Koppel It’s called the fog of war for a reason, and yet it is with viciousness, fortified by bias and outrage, that we witness a certain eagerness to...
U.S. Breaks Its Deal with Iran…Again
by Ted Snider | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Building on its reputation as an unreliable diplomatic partner, the United States announced on October 12 that it was pulling out of the deal that would have granted Iran access to $6 billion of its money in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. This...
On Ethnic Cleansing, Washington DC Has Always Been the Hypocrite
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. administrations have repeatedly condemned foreign adversaries for engaging in ethnic cleansing of minority populations. That has been an explicit grievance against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because of Beijing’s treatment of its Uygur population in...
Lessons in Atrocity Propaganda
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has been a little over a week since Hamas attacked Israel. In that week, we have learned more of what 5th Generation Warfare looks and feels like in the context of actual battles taking place in a geographic theater of war. Although the Israel-Palestine conflict...