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...
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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...
The Futility and Cruelty of Washington’s Economic Sanctions
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
A perennial favorite tactic for officials running U.S. foreign policy has been to impose economic sanctions on countries whose governments defy Washington’s wishes. Sanctions enjoy a reputation among the policy elite of being the responsible "middle option" between...
How the Media Has Whitewashed FBI Abuses in the Russia Probe
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
The mainstream media not only continues to parrot the narrative that President Donald Trump is a Russian asset who collaborated with Moscow to steal the 2016 presidential election, but journalists have also minimized or dismissed evidence about FBI abuses during the...
How the Media Mangled the 'Russian Invasion' of the Trump Administration
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
Throughout the Trump years, various reporters have presented to great fanfare one dubious, thinly sourced story after another about Moscow’s supposedly nefarious plots against the United States. The unsupported allegations about an illegal collusion between Donald...
The Prosecution of Washington’s Kosovo Clients for War Crimes
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 4, 2020 | Featured Articles
The United States and its NATO allies launched a military intervention in 1999 that helped the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) win its secessionist campaign against Serbia. US officials justified that intervention on the grounds that Serbian security forces were...
The Foreign Policy Blob’s Alarmist Response to Trump’s Partial Troop Withdrawal
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 11, 2020 | Featured Articles
Given the reaction from advocates of Washington’s foreign policy status quo in Europe (and nearly everywhere else in the world), one might think that President Trump’s reported decision to order a modest drawdown of 9,500 US troops stationed in Germany was a crime...
Preventing Liberty from Becoming a Coronavirus Fatality
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
Public attitudes about the coronavirus outbreak increasingly exhibit features of a collective panic. That development creates the danger that government measures designed to deal with a very real public health problem may lead to enormous collateral damage both to the...
Syria: Another Forever War Beckons
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
An explosion of criticism had erupted in Congress and the news media in response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw a small contingent of US troops stationed in northern Syria. Those forces served as a (mostly symbolic) barrier to Turkey’s ambitions to conduct...
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