Too much of the talk about the recent Alaska summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin focuses on the wrong issue. The key question is not whether an eventual peace accord ending the fighting in Ukraine will require Kyiv...
Ted Galen Carpenter

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmire war between Russia and Ukraine. His instincts–that continued involvement in that conflict was not in...

Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 28, 2025 | Featured Articles
Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement...
Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
We often hear U.S. and NATO spokesmen claim that they believe in a rules-based international order. They don’t. The United States and its NATO allies have stressed repeatedly that Russia’s use of force to seize portions of Ukraine is reprehensible. They were emphatic...
Trump’s Unconstitutional, Presidential War Against Yemen
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 22, 2025 | Featured Articles
For Americans who still think that Donald Trump is an advocate of realism and restraint in foreign policy, the events in Yemen should come as a rude awakening. Unfortunately, the most prominent indicator enabled the president’s political opponents to evade their...
US ‘Democratic’ Allies Are Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 18, 2025 | Featured Articles
U.S. officials have a long history of portraying Washington’s allies and clients as democratic, even when their behavior is blatantly authoritarian. Such cynical hypocrisy was at its zenith during the Cold War, but it is surging again. A similar trend...
Will There Be a Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past 8 or 9 decades. Blather about the...
Will Trump End Washington’s Democratic Foreign Policy Façade?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents...
Will Armageddon Be Joe Biden’s Final Legacy Regarding Russia?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
When the Soviet Union dissolved in late 1991, the world seemed poised for a new, more peaceful era no longer haunted by the fear of a nuclear Armageddon. The principal successor state from the wreckage of the USSR was a noncommunist Russia that was intent on becoming...
Pro-War Lobby Attacks Russian Influencers
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that...
Washington Needlessly Entangles Its Small Allies
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles
America’s founders were extremely worried that the Republic might become entangled in quarrels that were, or should be, irrelevant to America’s own security and well-being. Several prominent founders, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, emphasized that...
The Republican Establishment’s Sterile Foreign Policy Perspective
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Those Americans who might hope that the growing public opposition to continuing U.S. aid to Ukraine might signal a wave of fresh thinking about foreign policy in the Republican party are likely to be disappointed. Most members of the establishment cling to the idea...
NATO’s New Burden-Sharing Objectives
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
From its founding in 1949 until the start of NATO’s proxy war against Russia in 2022, the principal troublesome issue for the Alliance was Washington’s repeated calls for greater burden-sharing on the part of its allies. Discontent on Washington’s part emerged early...
My Own Brush with Death Has Intensified My Opposition to U.S. Imperialism
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 22, 2023 | Featured Articles
Many readers of Antiwar.com have wondered why they have seen no new articles from me in more than 6 weeks. The answer is that I was battling heart and other health issues that nearly took my life. At one point, my principal cardiologist...
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...
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