Killing New START Is Crazy so of Course the Trump Admin Is Doing It And saying it has to be killed because China is not in it is the dumbest thing yet Daniel Larison 21 Nov 19 483 7
Adventures in Trumpia The Trump Administration’s Weird Cyrus the Great Fixation Daniel Larison 5 Nov 19 696 4
Our Benevolent Empire Trump, the Cartoon Version of an Imperialist What the Russians are calling “state banditry” he is proud of it and wants credit for it Daniel Larison 31 Oct 19 637 8
Our Benevolent Empire How the Pentagon Used Trump’s Fixation on Plunder to Get Its Syria Occupation Reinstated "'This is like feeding a baby its medicine in yogurt or applesauce' said the official" Daniel Larison 30 Oct 19 731 1
Operation Rolling Plunder "If there is one thing that can get Trump to commit to a pointless foreign intervention, it is the imaginary prospect of loot" Daniel Larison 25 Oct 19 710 3
Our Benevolent Empire Trump With a Plan to Divorce Syria’s Kurds but Not Her Oil Trump: "I don’t want to leave troops" in Syria except to "secure the oil" Daniel Larison 22 Oct 19 640 7
NATO Squabbles The Sanctions Addicts Look For Their Next Fix Trump sanctions "NATO ally" Turkey and throws away any goodwill throwing the Kurds under the bus may have bought him in Ankara Daniel Larison 15 Oct 19 319 3
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Picks ‘Bolton Lite’ and GOP Establishment Darling for National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien is your run of the mill Republican hawk Graham, Rubio and Cruz are tripping themselves over to endorse Daniel Larison 18 Sep 19 310 2
Our Benevolent Empire Trump Announces He’s Waiting for Saudi Instructions on What US Foreign Policy Should Be "America First!" Daniel Larison 16 Sep 19 416 3
Our Benevolent Empire Bolton’s Exit Doesn’t Change Anything, The Real Problem Has Been Donald Trump All Along It's Trump's narcissism, not Bolton's subterfuge, that has been blowing up settlements that could have been had Daniel Larison 11 Sep 19 576 7
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Doesn’t Know the First Thing About Negotiating The result is that all of his foreign policy initiatives are failing or have already failed Daniel Larison 26 Aug 19 632 3
Empire Woes US-Backed Coalition Fighting Itself in Yemen as Saudi Quislings Ousted From Backup Capital Iit just so happens that no one in any part of Yemen wants to be governed by the US-backed Hadi Daniel Larison 13 Aug 19 465 1
Empire’s Sanctions Are Now Driving Venezuela Toward Famine The country grows only a third of its food, and oil sanctions will cost it 94 percent of what it spent on imports last year Daniel Larison 15 Jul 19 490 6
Persia Under Siege Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” Blows Up in His Droopy Face If Iranians are ever going to talk to the US again they have to restore their leverage first Daniel Larison 3 Jul 19 1006 11
Our Benevolent Empire Bolton Gets Ready to Kill the Last Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia Hello a costly and unwinnable arms race in world-destroying weapons Daniel Larison 28 Jun 19 620 8
Those Pesky Persians Iranians Meet Trump’s New Sanctions With Mockery and Derision Trump merely proves that short of hot war he has no bullets left to fire Daniel Larison 25 Jun 19 633 2
Our Benevolent Empire Aides Got Trump to Approve Iran Strikes Once and They Can Do so Again "Planes were in the air and ships were in position" — Bolton, Pompeo and Haspel all pushed for blood Daniel Larison 21 Jun 19 776 6
Ouch! ‘I Don’t Consider Trump a Person Worthy of Exchanging Messages With’ — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei sends Trump's messenger boy Shinzo Abe back without a message for Trump Daniel Larison 14 Jun 19 952 7
Those Pesky Russians The US-Russia-Israel Summit in Jerusalem Will Be a Curious Photo Op, Nothing More The idea Russia will force Iran out of Syria for Trump and Bibi is a fantasy Daniel Larison 6 Jun 19 563 8
Biggest Obstacle to North Korea Nuke Deal Is That the US Is Not Agreement-Capable The US has thrown previous agreements with Libya, Iran and North Korea in the garbage before the ink was dry Daniel Larison 31 May 19 298 1
Our Benevolent Empire US Threatens to Wreck Its EU Relations With Sanctions Over Iran Trade Mechanism Empire threatens to sanction senior British, German and French foreign ministry officials Daniel Larison 30 May 19 945 7
Adventures in Trumpia Trump Sends out “Genocidal Tweets” Then Wonders Why Iranians Won’t Talk to Him This is what the President of the United States thinks diplomacy is Daniel Larison 23 May 19 568 12
Pompeo’s Briefing on Iran “Threat” to NATO Europeans Went Over Like a Lead Balloon Pompeo thought they'll eat out of his hand like Congress and American media do Daniel Larison 21 May 19 1072 5
Persia Under Siege Empire’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Provokes Iran’s Unyielding Resistance US is the stronger party on paper but helpless to prevail when defiance and survival are victory enough for Tehran Daniel Larison 16 May 19 264 0
