Download Episode. Scott talks with Cato Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about American interventions in Ukraine and Syria. They dig into the likeliest escalation scenarios in Ukraine and imagine how both sides would react to defeat. That leads to a discussion...
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News Roundup 1/1/2023
Russia After over 10 months of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, there’s no sign that 2023 will bring peace to Ukraine as the warring parties have radically different demands, and the US continues to escalate aid for Kyiv and its role in the war. AWC...
News Roundup 12/29/2022
US News The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) increases the budget of the Pentagon’s newest branch by billions of dollars. The funding increase comes after a top Space Force civilian employee sexually harassed his subordinates and kept his job. The...
What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences
This paper was originally published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association and is reprinted with permission of author. Through the use of survey methods, the study presents the first systematic comparison of America-based...
COI #365: Zelensky Visits Washington to Collect a Big Check
On COI #364, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover Twitter’s collaboration with U.S. Central Command’s Middle East psyops, Washington’s deployment of nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to South Korea for war drills, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to...
News Roundup 12/22/2022
Russia Congress unveiled on Tuesday a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus funding bill that includes $45 billion in new Ukraine aid, which will bring total US spending on the war to about $112 billion. AWC Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned on Monday that Washington’s...
Self-Determination for Thee, But Not for Me
Opponents of secession in the United States often choose from several reasons as to why they think no member state of the United States should be allowed to separate from the rest of the confederation. Some antisecessionists say it’s bad for national security reasons....
News Roundup 12/20/2022
Russia Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has again come out in favor of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine in an article for The Spectator titled “How to Avoid Another World War.” AWC One civilian was killed, another eight people were wounded, and a...
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