Wow, diplomacy! How can it possibly hurt to start talking with an adversary? Watch the counter on our blog and see how long it’s been since we’ve had diplomatic relations with North Korea. Hint: We’ve NEVER had diplomatic relations with North Korea. …
I’m stunned. A US General who actually speaks with reason. “He said that if the U.S. were to withdrawal without first finding Iran in material breach of the deal, allies would likely question other American treaty obligations. And North Korea, for its part, would have little incentive to enter into talks over its own nuclear program if Washington were to tear up an agreement that, by all accounts, Iran is adhering to.”
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American policy in Syria has always been bizarre. Israel and Saudi Arabia (two of our claimed allies) wanted Assad gone. We trained and armed (at great expense to we the taxpayers) opposition groups that gravitated to ISIS. We sent ground military forces there to train opposition groups. The CIA did the same. CIA forces engaged in direct combat with US Army forces. It’s a mess. A mess caused by us acting as a “for hire” military for our allies.
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How do you describe a nation that ignores laws and treaties whenever it decides it doesn’t want to follow them? For the rest of the world, they are more and more calling that nation a bully. And it’s the United States who is the bully.…
Just think about this for a moment. These folks live right next door to North Korea. They would bear the biggest brunt of a war. And they say “no” to President Trump. This is kind of like a disagreement with your next door neighbor, and then the Governor sends in the National Guard.…
Something rather unprecedented just happened in Syria: US backed “good terrorist” forces attempted a surprise attack against Syrian government forces stationed to the north and northeast of the city of Hama. …
Most of the embargos against Iran back in the day never really worked, as European countries violated them regularly. France was a huge violator. It’s a cliché, but in this case it really was about the oil.
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As usual, things aren’t always as they seem when presented to us in the US media.
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26 years of the Defense Department running our foreign policy has not been a good thing for the United States or the rest of the world.…
After 26 years of using the Department of Defense as our foreign policy, we’ve forgotten how to deal with countries that aren’t intimidated by us. We need to get statecraft back. Is Ukraine really an “extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States”?
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