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Ted Galen Carpenter
Biden Revives Axis of Evil Propaganda Ploy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden’s approach to international issues increasingly resembles George W. Bush’s disastrous foreign policy. One key tendency in common is that both men view complex world affairs in dangerously simplistic terms as an existential struggle between good and evil. ...
Russia as the New, All-Purpose US Pretext for Military Intervention
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Since the end of World War II, America’s political elite have cycled through a variety alleged foreign demons to justify a militarized, global interventionist policy. Vladimir Putin and the Great Russian Menace is the latest version. Not surprisingly, US officials...
Washington’s Undemocratic Military Offspring
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
The military takeover in Niger is the latest example of US-trained officers overthrowing a democratic government. Brig. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, the chief of Niger’s Special Operations Forces and one of the leaders of the coup, received training at both Fort...
FBI Serves as a Conduit for Ukraine’s Censorship Campaign
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Articles
The US government has long tolerated and excused Ukraine’s authoritarian behavior even as Washington and its NATO partners have lavished financial and military aid on Kyiv. Evidence has now emerged, though, that the US national security apparatus has actively assisted...
Can Washington Be Saved from Itself at the NATO Summit?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Several crucial decisions likely will be made at this week’s NATO summit meeting. The most important of all involves Ukraine’s application to join the Alliance. Zealotry for Ukraine in some NATO capitals is so strong that that a path to membership for that country is...
Washington’s Resurgent Military Presence in the Philippines Provokes China
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured Articles
When the last US troops left the Philippines in the early 1990s, the prevailing assumption was that an extremely close military relationship between Washington and Manila would be just another relic of the Cold War. The decision by the Philippines Senate not to renew...
The Big Lie That Won’t Die: Trump as Putin’s Puppet
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured Articles
Some foreign policy myths are so entrenched and tenacious that no amount of evidence seems able to dislodge them. An especially prominent one in recent years is that Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin’s puppet and adopted shameful policies that appeased Moscow. The...
The Biden Administration’s Latest Tone-Deaf Foreign Policy Positions
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 5, 2023 | Featured Articles
U.S. leaders rarely have been noted for being able to gauge changing sentiment in the international arena and adjusting their foreign policy accordingly. The Biden administration, however, may be setting new records for the tone-deaf quality of its policies. Three...
Libertarian Apologists for Ukraine’s Authoritarianism
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 30, 2023 | Featured Articles
It should not come as a surprise that US officials and members of the foreign policy establishment have falsely portrayed Ukraine as a noble democracy. Such deceptions in pursuit of assorted US foreign policy objectives around the globe are nothing new. Throughout the...
Bogus Foreign Policy Narratives Go Unchallenged
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 15, 2023 | Featured Articles
One maddening feature of foreign policy debates in the United States is how frequently journalists and policy experts fail to challenge dominant narratives even when those narratives have glaring defects. Such malfeasance has facilitated a growing list of Washington’s...
The Zombie Domino Theory Returns
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
An especially damaging development in the history of US foreign policy was President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s promulgation of the domino theory. Adoption of its assumptions led directly to America’s disastrous military intervention in Vietnam. Although the simplistic...
Washington’s Egregious Deceptions About the Russia-Ukraine War
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 3, 2023 | Featured Articles
All governments produce deceptive propaganda about aspects of their foreign policy. However, Joe Biden’s administration seems intent on setting some kind of record for both the number of falsehoods and their brazenness. Three of them stand out with respect to the...
Economic Sanctions Are Simultaneously Ineffective and Cruel
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden’s administration keeps boasting about how successful international sanctions have been in punishing Russia for invading Ukraine. But that boast is increasingly hollow, both with respect to the extent of international unityand the success of the sanctions....
Using Ukraine as a Bloodied Pawn
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 11, 2023 | Featured Articles
US and NATO officials routinely contend that assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia is a moral as well as a strategic imperative. Ukraine is supposedly on the frontlines of a global struggle between democracy and freedom on one side and brutal authoritarianism on...
How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
Given Ukraine’s surprisingly effective counteroffensive against Russian forces in the autumn of 2022, there has been an increasing focus among Western officials and their media allies about Russia’s probable response to an overall Ukrainian triumph in the war. There...
Washington Is Making the Same Blunder Regarding Taiwan That It Did in Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are rising sharply over the Taiwan issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s stated intention to include a stop in Taipei to meet with Taiwanese officials during her forthcoming trip to East Asia is...
Congress Is Willingly Abdicating Its War Powers Again
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Constitution explicitly gives Congress, not the president, the authority to determine if the republic should go to war. Unfortunately, that fundamental point is now little more than a quaint historical footnote. Congress has issued no declarations of war since...
Washington’s Failed Push For Anti-Russian Global Consensus
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
Biden administration officials treat Russia as an international pariah and push the global community to unite behind Washington’s leadership to compel the Kremlin to withdraw its forces from Ukraine. The administration’s strategy has been just partially successful....
This Time, NATO Better Take Putin’s Ukraine Warnings Seriously
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
In one of the great foreign policy blunders of modern times, US and European leaders repeatedly disregarded Vladimir Putin’s warnings that Russia would never tolerate Ukraine becoming a NATO military asset. Because of resistance from the French and German governments...
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