Important piece by @BobDreyfuss2017 on Trump's foreign policy team's extremism in military and intelligence affairshttps://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-foreign-policy-appointees-are-set-to-provoke-war-with-iran/ …
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@onesarahjones: "The problem isn’t so much that left-wing candidates for Congress haven’t spelled out foreign policy positions on their websites [...] but that there’s little infrastructure to supply them with ideas once they take office."https://newrepublic.com/article/150317/left-wings-foreign-policy …Show this thread -
“As a community of scholars, we should be spending less time looking backward and defending a troubled status quo, and spend more time thinking about how the current situation can be improved.”https://twitter.com/stephenwalt/status/1024739697577340929?s=21 …
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@PatPorter76: “Grand strategic change is possible. But it requires two interacting elements that come together rarely: a major strategic shock and a determined president willing to bear the costs of overhauling American security commitments”https://warontherocks.com/2018/08/crisis-and-conviction-u-s-grand-strategy-in-trumps-second-term/ …Show this thread -
Philip Weiss of
@Mondoweiss: “All Trump’s major moves in the Middle East ... are moves that make Adelson happy. We can just be thankful that Trump has not checked off every box on Adelson’s wishlist, and nuked Iran.”https://mondoweiss.net/2018/09/adelsons-possibility-palestinian/amp/ …Show this thread -
This is a very helpful resource: a list of progressive/ left foreign policy analyseshttps://twitter.com/patrickiber/status/1042131848632119298?s=21 …
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@dbessner discusses five principles that “can serve as the base upon which future leaders can build a left-wing foreign policy that ushers in a more just and peaceful era” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/opinion/democratic-party-cortez-foreign-policy.html …Show this thread -
Thoughtful review by
@DavidKlion of@benrhodes's memoir calls attention to the urgent need for a Leftist, "alternative approach to the liberal-internationalist, realist, and neoconservative" foreign policy thinkinghttps://www.thenation.com/article/ben-rhodes-and-the-crisis-of-liberal-foreign-policy/ …Show this thread
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