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A Rough Diplomatic Week for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Sep 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the early weeks of the war, a peace was still possible that would have seen Ukraine lose few lives and little to no land. Even the Donbas would have remained in Ukraine with autonomy under a still possible Minsk agreement. Only Crimea would have remained lost. A...
Stone Cold Dead Republic: When Everything is Cast as a War
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Several politicians have vaunted a muscular but myopic plan for dealing with the fentanyl crisis: to eliminate sources of the drug near the U.S.-Mexico border through the use of military force. The fentanyl crisis is being portrayed as an international conflict, not a...
World War III Requires Conscription, Muses U.S. Army War College
by Zachary Yost | Sep 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The most recent edition of the U.S. Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the U.S. military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average...
TGIF: Hurrah for Real Globalization!
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 22, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Globalization, like the free market and classical liberalism generally, isn't wildly popular these days, is it? People blame globalization for all sorts of bad things, and the raps are usually bum. In truth, to the extent that governments keep out so-called foreign...
One Western Official Finally Comes Clean About NATO Expansion
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg likely surprised both factions in the ongoing debate about NATO expansion and its role in triggering the Russia-Ukraine War. He also undermined (perhaps fatally) the official cover story about the reasons for the Ukraine war....
Let’s Start Minding Our Own Business
by Dan McKnight | Sep 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I look at this country and I see too many veterans unable to reenter society because of their trauma from fighting these endless wars. I look at this country and I see political prisoners like Julian Assange locked up for practicing honest journalism. I look at this...
Goldfish in Chief
by Kym Robinson | Sep 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former U.S. President Barack Obama recently put out a tweet with a link to organizations that may be of some help to the people of Libya due to recent floods. NATO was absent from the list. Whoever runs the former president's social media is likely unaware why some...