U.S. Push to Oust Venezuela’s Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin America "The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to...
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The Syrian Smokescreen
In recent weeks, Trump announced the “withdrawal” of U.S. forces from Syria, as well as the withdrawal of 7,000 troops from Afghanistan. Although Trump had in the past taken actions against the Syrian state, for instance launching Tomahawks at the Shayrat Airbase in...
News Roundup 1/30/19
US Foreign Policy The US has produced its first low yield nuclear weapons. The weapons have the power of about 5 kilotons of TNT. [Link] Senator Mitch McConnell introduced an amendment that pushes Trump to keep US forces in Afghanistan and Syria. [Link] The LA Times...
FPF #304 – Worst of Trump in 2018 guest Will Porter
On FPF #304, Will Porter returns to the show for part two of the year-end review show. We discuss the worst of Trump's foreign policy decisions in 2018. Will breaks down the important events in Yemen, Russia, Iran, and China. We examine the influence that John Bolton...
Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco
Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has...
News Roundup 1/29/19
Venezuela Tulsi Gabbard calls on the US to stay out of Venezuela. [Link] The Bank of England refuses to give the Maduro government $1.2 billion in gold the bank holds for Venezuela. The US pressured the UK to prevent Maduro from receiving the gold. [Link] White House...
Taliban Talks
I'm just speculating and things, but Trump must be as insistent as hell to get Khalilzad and the State Department to push this hard. It's really something.
Trump-Russia Hoax
I'm no fan of Andrew C. McCarthy from the National Review, but, other than the gratuitous slam on Julian Assange, this is dead on. Stone Indictment Underscores That There Was No Trump-Russia Conspiracy
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