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AbstractThe liberal international order, erected after the Cold War, was crumbling by 2019. It was flawed from the start and thus destined to fail. The spread of liberal democracy around the globe—essential for building that order—faced strong resistance because of nationalism, which emphasizes self-determination. Some targeted states also resisted U.S. efforts to promote liberal democracy for security-related reasons. Additionally, problems arose because a liberal order calls for states to...

Pretty funny, and very apt. Tulsi is the only foreign policy realist that is running against endless, so far at least.Duffel BlogMaj. Tulsi Gabbard receives surprise deployment orders to Antarctica [satire] Yossarian

Such positions on war and U.S. foreign policy effectively make her a pariah to establishment media pundits and the political class. But her anti-establishment politics do not end there.…“We have to dig a few layers deeper as people are running for office, say what do you actually stand for?” she said on “The Jimmy Dore Show.” “What is your vision for this country? That’s the debate that we will have to have in Congress should Democrats win over the House or win more seats in the Senate....

We are now in the dubious position of “celebrating” – if that is the word – the 100th anniversary of US President Woodrow Wilson’s departure on December 4, 1918 on the liner SS George Washington for the Versailles Peace Conference where he was confident he would dictate his brilliant solutions that would end war in the world for all time. Historians and psychiatrists – including Dr. Sigmund Freud himself who co-authored a book on Wilson – have endlessly debated whether Wilson was sane and...

US President Donald Trump has managed to attract support for his "America First" isolationism not by dint of his own arguments, but because the US foreign-policy establishment abandoned its own values. After decades of thoughtless military interventionism, it is little wonder that Americans would seek an alternative.… A grownup speaks on semi-official channel. The voices of the grownups have been suppressed in the corporate media and only found expression in alternative media.One can be for...

Fort Russ TRUMPS SECRET PLAN? Turn Russia into ‘battering ram’ against China Paul AntonopoulosSee also CounterpunchTrump, Putin & Helsinki: Henry Kissinger Still Calls the Shots Rajai R. Masri is a former lecturer of Finance at McGill University and Boston University.RelatedSic Semper TyrannisLet Mikey do it? Maybe not.Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and...

The question is becoming, "Who lost Europe?"Moon of AlabamaTrump Offloads Foreign Policy Problems - Lets EU Grow A Spine brelatedUne parole francheRex Tillerson in "The New York Times": Pride and PrejudiceGilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.