There is growing speculation about how the Russia-Ukraine war might eventually end. Three competing scenarios are strong possibilities. The most likely outcome is a definitive Russian victory after a grinding, bloody struggle lasting several more years. As time drags...
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Mearsheimer Predicts a Grim Future for Eastern Europe
by Zachary Yost | Jul 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war in Ukraine has been going on for over a year and shows little signs of abating anytime soon. This is bad news for the people of Ukraine, who continue to suffer from Russian missile strikes and from their own government dragging men off the streets to send off...
As America’s Influence Wanes, China’s Grows
by Ted Snider | Jul 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, the world has been vibrating with multipolarity in ways barely picked up by the mainstream news. Iran is a regional power that pursues a foreign policy that defies U.S. hegemony and refuses to get in line with the American vision of a unipolar world....
The Fake China Threat, Then and Now
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation: “We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into...
TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion: What Just Happened in Russia?
by Ted Snider | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert...
An Archaeology of Nineteenth Century American Expansion
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, context was added to Murray Rothbard’s assertion in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that American foreign policy underwent an abrupt shift during the second Cleveland administration (1893-1897). I argued that American foreign policy from...
TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people too -- just not in all the same ways. Anyone who understands the importance of keeping government power strictly limited in...