In his new capacity as head of the White House’s National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow has begun a push to create an alliance against China’s bad trade practices. To doubters of President Trump’s recently announced punitive tariffs aimed at China, Kudlow said people should blame China itself, not Trump. Bloomberg reports: The U.S. wants to […]
Scheuer: Putin’s Re-annexation of Crimea Justifiable
Writing at his blog, non-intervention.com, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer suggests that the reannexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia was justifiable. Scheuer also casts some doubt on the legitimacy of claims against Russia by the West. He writes (abridged): No blessing ever seems to arrive in a manner […]
Will Trump End the Iran Deal?
Neocons in the Trump administration want to put an end to the Iran nuclear deal. Despite some flaws, the deal has been working. Daniel Larison reports in The American Conservative that the reason neocons dislike the deal is because it peacefully settled a dispute. The neocon crowd in Washington has been pushing war with Iran […]
Is China Setting Trump up to Fail in North Korea Meeting?
After North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un met with Chinese President (for life?) Xi Jinping this week, it’s hard not to imagine that the two had a long conversation about Kim’s pending meeting with President Donald Trump. What did they discuss? Was Xi urging Kim to reconcile with America, or giving him pointers on how to […]
Carlson vs. Bolton: War of Words over Iran, Iraq and Regime Change
After Tucker Carlson suggests to John Bolton that regime changes in Iraq and Libya have been disasters, Bolton calls Tucker’s analysis “simple minded.”
Why is Trump Surrounding himself with Hawks?
At The American Conservative this morning, Pat Buchanan wonders if Donald Trump is actively assembling a “war cabinet.” With the elevation of Mike Pompeo to the position of Secretary of State, and John Bolton to National Security Adviser, it seems that may be the case. Pat writes (abridged): The last man standing between the U.S. […]
Cato’s Preble: Thumbs Down on Bolton
Chris Preble, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, gives President Trump’s new pick for National Security Adviser a thumbs down. McMaster may not have been great, but Bolton will be a far worse influence on the president. Preble (author of The Power Problem) writes (abridged): Bolton has been one of […]
Bolton, Neocons and Israel Firsters
Michael Schuer, writing at his blog, non-intervention.com, damns the president for his appointment of John Bolton. Scheuer is the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, and he believes that with the appointment of John Bolton as the next National Security Adviser, President Trump has played into the hands of the neocons and the […]
Tillerson Will Be the Last of His Kind
A lot of ink has been spilled, and shade thrown, over the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The broad consensus in DC is that Tillerson was little more than a wrecking ball–a guy who did great damage to the State Department by depopulating it, demoralizing it, and overall degrading it. Some combined contempt […]
Will Trump’s National Security Adviser Go from Bad to Worst?
Originally posted February 1, 2018. Of all the possible options for National Security Adviser, the one that would likely be the worst is former ambassador John Bolton. Bolton is the loudest neocon of all on the airwaves today, and any semblance of foreign policy realism in the White House would be terminated with his appointment. […]
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