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...
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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...
Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
Fortunately, President Biden thus far has rejected the most risky policies that hawks are pushing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite being under intense pressure, he continues to rule out proclaiming a no-fly zone, and he flatly rejects suggestions...
The US Press Again Becomes a Conduit for Pro-War Propaganda
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
American journalists have a long, ignoble history of being willing conduits for pro-war propaganda. Usually, that behavior is in service to a military crusade that Washington has launched or wants to initiate. At times, though, such a betrayal of journalistic...
Hawks Make Little Distinction Between Russia and the Soviet Union
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Foreign policy hawks in the United States habitually equate a noncommunist Russia with the totalitarian Soviet Union. An especially graphic example is a recent article in 19FortyFive by Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the neoconservative American Enterprise...
Hawks Smear War Opponents Again
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 8, 2022 | Neocon Watch
Advocates of an aggressive US foreign policy are again smearing their antiwar opponents. In his latest article on Substack, iconoclastic journalist Glenn Greenwald notes that he "cannot count the number of times" that he has "been accused...
Some Light Is Being Shed on the Dubious Origins of the Russia Collusion Scandal
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
US Attorney and Special Counsel John H Durham’s laborious investigation into the origins of allegations that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign illegally colluded with Russia’s government finally seems to be bearing fruit. In the latest development, a federal...
Just Whose Coast Is the Coast Guard Guarding?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | May 11, 2021 | Featured Articles
Most Americans likely assume that the mission of the US Coast Guard is to protect the coasts of the United State from maritime threats. Increasingly, though, that is no longer true, as Coast Guard vessels and personnel now routinely operate thousands of miles from the...
How the National Security State Manipulates the News Media
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
An especially dangerous threat to liberty occurs when members of the press collude with government agencies instead of monitoring and exposing the abuses of those agencies. Unfortunately, collusion is an all-too-common pattern in press coverage of the national...
Ugly Yankee: Washington Continues To Bully Mexico on the Drug War
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
A nasty spat has emerged between the US and Mexican governments about alleged official corruption and drug trafficking. The latest incident began on October 16, 2020, when US authorities arrested Mexico’s former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, at...
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