Trump’s recent reversal of Obama’s landmine ban was not only a petty political move but just another boondoggle for the Pentagon.
Marshall Auerback and James Carden: The rotten alliance of liberals and neocons
Forswearing preemptive military action (wars of choice) isn’t enough. Change will only come about when U.S. foreign policy adheres to the principles of the UN Charter, and above all, the ancient Westphalian principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.
TAI: Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy
Lind, author of the new book The New Class War says “there’s agreement among people with very different views of history that what we call “liberalism”…has moved toward hyper-individualism in the culture and deregulation of the economy, and that this is a bad thing. It’s bad for community. It’s bad for the nation-state.”
Breaking Defense: The Fuzzy Outlines Of Biden’s National Security Policies
The first outlines of what a Biden administration’s national security policy and defense budget are coming clear.
Doug Bandow: Our Military Is Clashing With Russians While Defending Syrian Oil. Why?
Trump seems to think it’s okay to choose who controls resources and who doesn’t in other people’s countries.
VIDEO: Center for the National Interest: Belarus At the Eye of the Storm
The rapidly developing situation in Belarus could potentially trigger the most significant shift in the European status quo since events in Ukraine in 2014. How likely is regime change in Minsk? Could Russia realistically take military action to forestall it? Might an incipient struggle for predominance in Belarus spark a wider confrontation between the United States, Europe, and Russia?
Steven Pifer: Don’t Let New START Die
Little suggests grounds for optimism about nuclear arms control as long as Mr. Trump remains president. Change will require that the Democratic candidate win in November. His or her administration would then have to move immediately to extend New START before exploring additional measures that could usefully regulate an ever more complex arms competition with Russia and others.
Ted Galen Carpenter: Are We Deliberately Trying To Provoke A Military Crisis With Russia?
Adangerous vehicle collision between U.S and Russian soldiers in Northeastern Syria on Aug. 24 highlights the fragility of the relationship and the broader test of wills between the two major powers.
Gary Leupp: NATO and the Impeachment Trial
Trump will not be removed. But bipartisan Russophobia will be further deepened, NATO further lionized and immunized from criticism.
Lucy Komisar: How Democrats and Republicans Passed the Magnitsky Act
The Magnitsky act was the opening act of Russiagate, where Cold Warrior Democrats joined forces with Cold Warrior Republicans.
Barbara Boland: The machinations of the Democratic establishment are beyond parody
It’s hard to believe that many Democrats will accept the eventual tally out of Iowa, especially given that it will be proffered by the same people who spent the last three and a half years blaming Trump’s win in 2016 on Russian interference.
Andrey Sushentsov: Power Politics Makes the World More Predictable
There is no longer any ambiguity regarding the evolution of the international system. Moreover, in some situations, power politics can play a constructive role. So, in Eurasia, conditions are being shaped the formation of an extensive Eurasian concert, analogous to the European concert of the early 19th century, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Andrey Sushentsov.
Natylie Baldwin: Cold War Liberals at the State Department and the DNC
The author Natylie Baldwin asks ACEWA editor James Carden (also of The Nation magazine and the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy), about the foreign policy views within the Obama-era State Department.
Ted Galen Carpenter: Why Russia Likes to Play Aerial ‘Chicken’ with America
The already dangerous cold war with Russia could easily turn hot.
Stephen F. Cohen: Putin In Israel
On January 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Israel to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet (mostly Russian) army.
The Barents Observer: Rosatom releases previously classified documentary video of Tsar Bomba nuke test
Photos and short video clips have previously been available, but this unseen 40 minutes declassified footage of the Soviet Union’s monster nuclear bomb give a whole new insight into what happened on Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961.
Michael Krepon: The Long-Term Costs of NATO Expansion
NATO expansion was pre-cooked in 1993. It would have taken an extraordinarily farsighted president, largely immune from political pressures, to have opted for political, military and economic engagement without NATO expansion.
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos: Let’s Do The Pentagon Time Warp Again
Stepping into the 6.6 million square foot building is a return to the 1950s – a lot like our national security strategy.
Shannon Bugos: Extending New START Will Pull Back the Doomsday Clock
Until last week, the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock remained steady since 2018: two minutes to midnight
Melvin Goodman: Trump’s War On Arms Control and Disarmament
For the past two years, Trump has taken steps to thoroughly weaken the arms control regime.