Washington’s Real Credibility Problem Is That It’s Not Agreement Capable Indian Treaties are the only kind the hegemon knows how to make Daniel Larison 28 Dec 21 713 8
Neutrality for Ukraine Is the Right Answer The West won't fight for Ukraine and couldn't win if it did, but Moscow is offering to leave it alone anyway, under one condition Daniel Larison 20 Dec 21 1131 6
Jens Needs to Cool It Down. His Mouth Is Writing Checks NATO Can’t Cash Jens has been playing with kerosene Daniel Larison 5 Dec 21 1159 6
Stay Classy MSM Let’s Talk About Those Chinese Flights Into “Taiwan’s Airspace” “The Chinese are using these flights increasingly for training purposes and this is actually the end of the typical annual training cycle" Daniel Larison 10 Oct 21 2087 12
Our Benevolent Empire Sanctions Are War. Coward’s War. 'There are certain weapons and tactics that we consider inherently indiscriminate and unjustifiable, and we should apply the same restrictions to sanctions' Daniel Larison 15 May 21 771 5
Stop Prostrating America Before Its Middle East Clients Presidential Administrations — addicted to dancing to the tune of Riyadh and Tel Aviv Daniel Larison 11 Mar 21 243 0
A Malevolent Decision That Will Kill Countless Yemenis "Like all other so-called Pompeo victories this one is empty and comes at a high price in the blood and suffering of innocent people" Daniel Larison 12 Jan 21 537 2
Our Benevolent Empire Trump’s Parting Move? Push Yemen Deeper Into Famine 130,000 dead children is not enough Daniel Larison 6 Dec 20 417 26
Our Benevolent Empire Allies Aren’t Friends and Clients Aren’t Allies "Permanent alliance structures create perverse incentives for the most reckless members, and the other members of the alliance are then stuck with them" Daniel Larison 28 Oct 20 529 6
Empire Eyeing Expansion of Drone War to Kenya, Neither Congress nor Voters Will Be Consulted "That the government is contemplating launching airstrikes against Somalis in Kenya a generation after the 9/11 attacks illustrates how futile the 'war on terror' has been" Daniel Larison 1 Oct 20 375 0
Our Benevolent EmpireRogue State USA Nothing Brings More Joy to Imperial City Than Using American Power to Bully and Wreck Small Powers The bully Empire Daniel Larison 27 Aug 20 607 2
Declaring Cold Wars Is Easy. Winning Them Is Another Matter Does the US look in any shape to fight a Cold War right about now? Daniel Larison 3 Aug 20 1074 0
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Escalates Somalia Drone Murder and No One Cares Hand in hand with the Afghanistan drawdown there has been a bulking up of the Somalia intervention Daniel Larison 30 Jun 20 376 4
Empire Woes US Hegemony Is Already on Its Way Out; What’s Left Is for America to Decide What Its Role in the World Will Be After US dominance in the world is in the rear view but the Imperial City refuses to make peace with it Daniel Larison 25 Apr 20 1730 26
Bonesaw Saudis MBS Ramps Up Purges, Arrests Ousted Crown Prince and King’s Only Surviving Full Brother for ‘Treason’ America's 52nd state Daniel Larison 9 Mar 20 1129 4
Trump Picks Fool Who Blew Up US-German Relations to Head US Intelligence Agencies Absurdly Grenell gets to also stay on as Ambassador to Berlin Daniel Larison 21 Feb 20 1204 31
Our Benevolent Empire Comedian Mike Pompeo Says “West Is Winning” Against Russia, China, and It’s Because It Respects Sovereignty So Much Pompeo mistakes the Munich Security Conference for an improv comedy club Daniel Larison 16 Feb 20 1916 17
Adventures in Trumpia Trump’s Neocon State of the Union Address Foreign policy part of the speech that could have been writen by Paul Wolfowitz Daniel Larison 5 Feb 20 1361 11
Adventures in Trumpia Mike Pompeo Is a Weak and Pathetic Loser "The Secretary of State has all of the vanity and arrogance of a diva, but none of the talent" Daniel Larison 29 Jan 20 1176 12
Pompeo Crumbles Under Pressure An obnoxious, thin-skinned excuse for a foreign affairs minister. He sure is good at kissing up to Trump however Daniel Larison 27 Jan 20 1376 7
Our Benevolent Empire The Failure of Trump’s Pseudo-Engagement With North Korea Is Now Complete All because Trump isn't a member of the reality-based community Daniel Larison 23 Jan 20 845 16
Here’s the Menagerie of Idiots, Fanatics and Hacks Competing to Take Over From Pompeo at State Cotton and Rubio in the mix, it could even go to trainwreck Ric Grenell, the shambolic ambassador in Berlin Daniel Larison 27 Dec 19 876 5
Empire vs the United States Trump Admin Is Going to Take Saudis at “Their Word” on Pensacola Terrorist Attack A treacherous attack on US officer candidates on US soil and Trump' first reaction is to run interference for the Saudis with the press Daniel Larison 11 Dec 19 277 4
The Coming US-North Korea Crisis North Korea has been very clear year-end is a deadline for them to end the freeze if realistic talks are not resumed Daniel Larison 1 Dec 19 719 5
