On COI #714, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Korea, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
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Yet Another Smear Piece on Tulsi Gabbard
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard:
How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be the director of national intelligence has raised alarms among national security officials.
Here’s the key paragraph from the article, which, of course, is delayed until the sixth paragraph:
No evidence has emerged that she has ever collaborated in any way with Russia’s intelligence agencies. Instead, according to analysts and former officials, Ms. Gabbard seems to simply share the Kremlin’s geopolitical views, especially when it comes to the exercise of American military power. [Emphasis added]
Ron Paul asks: Heading to WWIII? NATO Missiles Strike Deep Inside Russia!
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Just a day after lame-duck US President Joe Biden announced a radical escalation in its Ukraine war policy – allowing Ukraine to use US weapons to strike deep inside Russia – the first of the ATACMS missiles were fired. Russia’s modified nuclear doctrine provides for the use of WMDs if the Russian state is attacked even with non-nuclear weapons. Will we survive the Biden presidency? Also today, the knives are out for Trump’s Attorney General pick, Matt Gaetz.
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Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
Iran Hawks Rule the Roost
The Washington Post published an article Saturday with a headline saying that Iran hawks would have “less sway” in the next Trump administration, and then the article says this:
Trump’s election victory has meant that the GOP’s traditionalist foreign policy hawks — for whom Iran has long been a top focus — are ascendant once again [bold mine-DL], as the party prepares to take control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
To Tehran, the message from many of Trump’s surrogates has taken the form of a broad warning. Gone, they say, is the Democrats’ “weak” policy of appeasement. Prepare to be squeezed into submission.
Happy Birthday to Justin Raimondo: Remembering Antiwar.com’s Co-Founder
Antiwar.com co-founder Justin Raimondo passed in 2019. He would have been 73 today.
Justin had been a close friend and political partner of mine since 1976. We started Antiwar.com in 1995.
You can read about his life here. He wrote close to 3,000 articles for Antiwar.com which you can read here.
Here is a mostly-complete archive of Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the first Libertarian Party Radical Caucus, which was run by Justin Raimondo, Eric Garris, Murray Rothbard, Roy Childs, Colin Hunter, Bob Costello, Chris Weber, Diane Pilcher, Scott Olmsted, Johnnie Gilman, and others. Justin Raimondo was the editor and wrote most of the content. It existed from 1979 to 1984 and operated out of Libertarian Books and Periodicals in San Francisco.
Justin wrote a regular column for Chronicles Magazine. His archive is available here. They will allow you to read two articles at no cost but then require you to subscribe.
His book Reclaiming the American Right is an excellent history and analysis of neoconservationism. He also wrote the best biography of Murray Rotherbard, An Enemy of the State.
We at Antiwar.com all miss Justin very much.
‘Taking the Handcuffs Off’ US Missiles in Ukraine
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
I woke to this disconcerting story from CNN:
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use powerful long-range US weapons deep inside Russia.
Why now? Biden is a lame duck president, shuffling out the door, and now he decides to allow Ukraine to use American ATACMS missiles, with a range of roughly 190 miles, inside Russia. It’s also expected that these and similar longer-range missiles provided by the French and British will have no decisive impact on the war. They may kill and wound more Russians and inspire responses in kind by Russia against Ukraine, but their use won’t contribute to “victory” for Ukraine. So what’s the point?
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