Tag Archives: US foreign policy

Gunboat diplomacy.Naked KeynesianismTalk of military intervention in Venezuela is absurdMatias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

Washington can’t adjust to losing its role as global sheriff, and the entire world must bear the consequences. SalonNow the U.S. is playing spoiler role in Korea, Syria and elsewhere. But why? Patrick Lawrence, Salon’s Foreign Affairs Columnist

“The President has committed, as a matter of strategy, that we will not leave Syria. We are not going to declare victory and go. And that is not my opinion; that’s the President’s strategic judgment. We’re going to stay for several reasons: stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast, protection of our allies the Syrian Democratic Forces, who have fought so valiantly against ISIS in the northeast, try to work to help transform the political structures in that area to a...

Caitlan Johnstone gets the policy, strategy and tactics right, in line what we have been saying here for some time. It's about the US maintaining and extending global hegemony in face of the challenge of China's rise. The 2018 US National Defense Strategy all but spells it out. We are facing increased global disorder, characterized by decline in the long-standing rules-based international order… Translation: The so-called international liberal order that held sway in the West since...

While audiences of Western media may be seeing the group, they aren’t actually being provided the proper context of who the MEK and NCRI are. Instead, MEK protests are being shown across Western media as “anti-regime” protests representative of the general mood of Iranians. The problem with these protests — which have been highlighted by outlets like Fox, Salon, and Vox — is that they aren’t actually taking place in Iran. Instead of highlighting the concerns of the legitimate protests in...

The United States has pursued a decades-long policy of encircling, containing and if possible, undermining China as part of a larger strategy of achieving and maintaining what US policy papers call “primacy” over Asia. US policy has led to deeply-rooted networks operating within China’s borders and along China’s geopolitical peripheries to divide and destabilize the immense and increasingly powerful Asian state. These networks are funded and supported regardless of who occupies the White...

We do not look to bolster America’s adversaries overseas; we look to pressure, compete with, and outmaneuver them. For this reason, we should consider human rights as an important issue in regard to U.S. relations with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And this is not only because of moral concern for practices inside those countries. It is also because pressing those regimes on human rights is one way to impose costs, apply counter-pressure, and regain the initiative from them...

The U.S. military has put countering China and Russia at the center of a new national defense strategy unveiled on Friday, the latest sign of shifting American priorities after more than a decade and a half of focusing on the fight against Islamist militants.... “We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we are engaged in today, but great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security,” Mattis said in a speech presenting the...

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.

  Interesting theory along the lines of Scott Adams, who has pretty consistently been proved correct by events and who Armstrong cites. (All real theories must be falsifiable; let's see in a year's time whether the US is more entangled or less entangled. It should be pretty apparent by then and, by the end of Trump's first term, obvious to all.) Strategic Culture FoundationTrump Cuts the Gordian Knot of Foreign Entanglements Patrick Armstrong