The president’s spending proposal requests money for a new arms race with Russia and China, and restores nuclear weapons as central to military policy.
Gregor Baszak: Away in a Manager: On Michael Lind’s “The New Class War”
LARBFebruary 18, 2020
Many on the left have been incapable of coming to terms with Hillary Clinton’s defeat. The result has been the stifling climate of a neo-McCarthyism…
Paul Robinson: Religion, Culture and the Russian Constitution
irrussianalityFebruary 18, 2020
Discussions about amending the Russian constitution continue.
David Rieff Reviews Samantha Power’s Memoir, The Education of an Idealist
TNIFebruary 17, 2020
From the beginning to the end of this self-aggrandizing book, what is most striking is how little Power’s views have changed from her early days as a freelance journalist in besieged Sarajevo in the early 1990s to her tenure as the United States’ permanent representative to the United Nations during most of President Barack Obama’s second term.
The Hill: DOJ attorney looking into whether CIA withheld info during start of Russia probe: NYT
the hillFebruary 17, 2020
Justice Department officials are investigating whether the CIA during the Obama administration withheld information in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to The New York Times. John H. Durham is reportedly pursuing a lead that former CIA director John Brennan was trying to steer the Russia investigation in a particular direction and withheld information from other agencies to achieve that goal.
Ed Lozansky: Time to start full scale U.S.-Russia dialogue
washtimesFebruary 16, 2020
The new U.S. ambassador in Moscow, John Sullivan, publicly stated that he got specific instructions from Mr. Trump to improve relations with Russia.
Dan Depetris: How impeachment damaged US foreign policy
the hillFebruary 16, 2020
Those who oppose the appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. security assistance — a euphemistic term for lethal weaponry — to Kyiv are now being viewed skeptically. In contrast, others who support it are given carte-blanche to guide the debate.
Daniel Larison: Don’t Ask Buttigieg About Foreign Policy
TACFebruary 16, 2020
The Buttigieg campaign’s refusal to respond to new foreign policy questions is lazy at best.
Robert E. Hunter: Presidential Election Politics are Damaging U.S. Foreign Policy
RSFebruary 12, 2020
It’s not just the White House that is doing serious damage to U.S. interests abroad during this year’s election campaign. Of even greater consequence (absent a new Middle East war) is the U.S. relationship with Russia.
Bonnie Kristian: Donald Trump’s Erratic Foreign Policy Is a Failure
TNIFebruary 12, 2020
The president talks a good talk about ending “endless wars,” to use a phrase from last year’s SOTU, but he has failed to extricate the United States from a single conflict. The incongruity is indefensible.