The growing enthusiasm for a military option in Mexico just shows how addicted to military intervention many Republicans are.Ron DeSantis is trying to catch up with the other Republican hawks that want to attack Mexico:DeSantis, who’s trailing Trump in national polls...
End the Senseless Economic War on Venezuela
Some House Democrats, including Rep. Gregory Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on the Biden administration to provide sanctions relief for Venezuela:A group of House Democrats called on the Biden administration to ease sanctions...
Nikki Haley’s Neo-Imperialism and ‘Chinese Influence’
Nikki Haley asks silly questions: 4. Why is China infiltrating the Western Hemisphere? It’s not just the spy base in Cuba. Beijing is trying to turn almost every country in the Western Hemisphere against us, often using economic bribery. We need to get Chinese...
The Evils of Economic War
Francisco Rodriguez reports the findings of a new paper on the destructive effects of sanctions:The evidence decisively shows that sanctions make living conditions worse in target countries. I looked at 32 academic papers that estimated their effect. Of these, 30...
There Is No Case for South Korean Nuclear Weapons
Surprising no one, Max Boot gets another important foreign policy call wrong:But if, in the future, South Korea does decide to go nuclear, it should not be a game changer for the United States. The United States has long tolerated nuclear weapons owned by friendly...
An Unnecessary Containment Policy
Walter Russell Mead cheerleads for the new Cold War:Today, the Chinese Communist Party has become an expansionist, tyrannical power whose inordinate ambition endangers freedom world-wide. America’s interests and values both lead us to oppose that ambition, even as we...
DeSantis’ Slippery Ukraine Maneuvering
Ron DeSantis expands on his Ukraine position in response to a questionnaire from Tucker Carlson:While the U.S. has many vital national interests – securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence,...
Republicans Rally Behind the Stupidest Possible War
The “peace president” is at it again:Now a candidate, Trump is reviving his hawkish instincts toward the drug lords. He has already vowed to deploy US special forces to take on drug cartels, “just as we took down ISIS and the ISIS caliphate.”In one policy video...
Biden’s Lackluster Diplomatic Record
Stephen Walt is underwhelmed by the Biden administration’s diplomatic performance to date:I raise this issue because the Biden administration took office vowing to put diplomacy at the center of U.S. foreign policy, yet it has relatively few diplomatic achievements to...
Get US Troops Out of Syria Now
The White House says that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping US troops in Syria:Kirby added that Biden is “absolutely” committed to keeping American troops in Syria, where they are stationed to fight back any remnants of ISIS forces.US troops have no business...
