Before the first day of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he already had more diplomatic achievements than Joe Biden did on the last day of his. The entrance of the Trump team into the negotiations was the difference in Gaza. Biden opened his administration with...
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With Trump, Washington’s ‘Democratic’ Facade Comes Down
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents denounce...
Biden Admin Adds New Sanctions on Russia, China
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 16, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News
Over the past week, the US has issued new sanctions on Russia and China. The Biden administration has attempted to cripple the Russian economy in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Beijing has responded to the economic war on China with retaliatory sanctions on...
Joe Biden’s Legacy: Waging Proxy Wars, Spreading Terrorism and Killing Diplomacy
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the sun sets on Joe Biden's presidency, the commander-in-chief and his top staffers are using their final moments in power to convince the American people that we live in a safer and more stable world. “The United States is winning the worldwide competition...
The Houthis Are Challenging Washington’s Zones of Imperial Domination
by John Weeks | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington DC is an imperial city. It masks as Athenian democracy housed within Roman republicanism and underpinned by Judeo-Christian values. But behind the mask is a cold monster: the “interagency.” And the monster is committed to global domination. The imperial...
Tulsi Gabbard, For Better or For Worse
by James Rushmore | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
When President-elect Donald Trump first nominated former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI) in his second administration, many critics of current U.S. foreign policy saw the selection as a step in the...
The Illusion of Wartime Prosperity
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 14, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
That war is of benefit to the business of voluntary exchange to mutual benefit is, as one of the last British bearers of the classical liberal flame, Norman Angell, remarked in 1909, the great illusion. Certainly there were some industries that gained, such as the...
The United States Always Knew NATO Expansion Would Lead to War
by Ted Snider | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The present severed from the past is easily misunderstood. In discussions of the Russia-Ukraine war, not enough is made of the historical fact that, at the end of the Cold War, the newly independent Ukraine promised not to join NATO, and NATO promised not to expand to...