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...

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...

Daniel Larison on China and ‘Our African Friends’

Near the end of an Associated Press report on Vice President Harris’ visit to Africa this week, John Kirby, a national security spokesman for the White House, was quoted saying this:John Kirby, a White House national security spokesman, said this past week that...