Samuel Charap and Mike Mazarr have responded to Vindman’s fantasy history about U.S. Russia policy:US policy toward post-Soviet Russia has never come close to the extreme accommodationism that Vindman describes. Washington did try to forge a partnership with Moscow,...

Ali A. Olomi calls attention to the damage being done by US sanctions and asset freezes in Afghanistan:Despite militarily withdrawing, the United States continues to pursue a policy of financially starving Afghanistan of desperately needed funds in an attempt to force...

Bob Wright identifies a recent article as an example of Blobbish self-parody:Spencer-Churchill argues that “Invade that sovereign state!” can be a good answer – so long as the sovereign state is the Solomon Islands and the invader is the United States or Australia....

Eric Miller wants to sound the alarm about future Chinese bases in Africa, but mostly he just recycles the same unpersuasive claims we have been hearing for months:Chinese military basing efforts abroad have become a topic of great international interest and scrutiny....

Walter Russell Mead doesn’t want us to bicker and argue over who killed who:If the U.S. is going to develop an effective response to this combination of strategic threats, our political leaders will have to move beyond finger pointing and blame games over the fate of...

Gideon Levy condemns the State Department’s whitewashing of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh:It’s difficult to imagine a more clumsy, unprofessional, ridiculous and even insulting mobilization in the service of Israeli propaganda. Once again it has been proven that...

Tom McTague praises America’s “necessary myth”:The dumb simplicity of America’s interventions is often infuriating and obtuse, or even disastrously naive and destructive. It exists in people like Neal and Holbrooke, Bush and Biden. And yet if America stops believing...

Christopher Mott makes the case for restoring normal relations with Venezuela:Danielle Pletka wants you to know that she thinks targeted killing “works”:Targeted killing has become a tool of statecraft because it works, in the sense that it achieves the limited goals...

Christopher Mott makes the case for restoring normal relations with Venezuela:With attachment to Guaido fading, Washington should now disavow interference in Caracas’s internal affairs and offer sanctions relief as an easy price to pay for setting up a full and robust...

H.R. McMaster and Gabriel Scheinmann try their hands at comedy:Contrary to the narrative of US belligerence and imperialism that has been impressed on countless university students, the United States has, since the end of World War II, largely pursued a policy of...