Republicans Are Stumped By Ukraine
Why did Republicans spend the past half-decade cozying up to Putin? Money and ideology.
Category: Foreign Policy
A Pocket Guide to Mideast Politics
It’s a large, complex place, but it’s not so complex that we can’t understand a few key details.
Trump Trade Theater
One more time, Trump has manufactured a crisis then secured victory by arbitrarily declaring that crisis over. This Great Wall of Bullshit approach to international relations has been remarkably successful so far, at least politically.
Trump’s Syria strike was theater, and that’s the good news
We launched a faux attack in which any element of conflict had been removed by collusion with our supposed enemy.
Donald Trump loves terrorism
There are people and institutions that benefit from terrorism. Terror tactics undermine free markets, trade, tourism, pluralism, and every institution that thrives on trust-based interactions. An atmosphere soaked in indiscriminate violence is fantastic for authoritarians. Unlike the British government in the 90’s, Donald Trump fosters terrorism because it furthers his political goals.
When Idiocrats go to war
We can debate the relative merits of a potential strategy or policy all day long, but it just doesn’t matter anymore. Whether you’re talking about health care, tax reform, Syria, or anything else, all policy questions have been rendered irrelevant by Trump’s win.