This profile of @nikkihaley by @LobeLog is key to make sense of current US foreign policyhttp://lobelog.com/nikki-haley-neocon-heartthrob/ …
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@StateDept nominee Pompeo, and his fundamentalist approach to religionhttps://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/988525136151183365?s=21 …Show this thread -
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@Cornell's Aziz Rana: “What is desperately needed now is a fully developed non-imperial articulation of American foreign policy—one that could challenge the@TheDemocrats establishment in the same way that Sanders’s call for 'Medicare for All' has done”https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-lefts-missing-foreign-policy/ …Show this thread -
Important account by
@adamentous of the US-Israel-UAE-Saudi alliance that is driving the US government's "more truculent and hawkish Middle East strategy"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/donald-trumps-new-world-order …Show this thread -
Informative, thoughtful interview by
@DanielDenvir with @stephenwertheimcuts on the Trump foreign policy, the limitations of the liberal criticism, and how the US left can defeat the War Party:https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/35189165/the-trump-doctrine-and-its-mandarin-detractors/ …Show this thread -
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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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@markperrydc: the backstage of the attempted Saudi meddling in Lebanon has laid bare the fact that the US is running two foreign policies in the Middle East, Jared Kushner’s and Rex Tillerson’shttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/kushner-kept-tillerson-in-the-dark-on-saudi-lebanon-move/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ted Galen Carpenter of
@CatoInstitute argues convincingly that the US track record of duplicity and betrayal is at the root of US foreign policy failureshttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-duplicitous-superpower/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Ted Galen Carpenter of
@CatoInstitute: Russia and North Korea are an example of how "Washington’s reputation for disingenuous behavior has complicated America’s own foreign policy objectives"http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-duplicitous-superpower/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@EliClifton: Replacing Secretary of State Tillerson with Mike Pompeo and making Sen. Tom Cotton the new CIA director would mark an elevation of two neoconservative Iran hawks to the most influential positions in national intelligence gathering & diplomacyhttp://lobelog.com/did-trump-greenlight-neoconservative-takeover-of-state-dept-and-cia/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yet another foreign policy realm in which the US government is isolating itself from the international community, including its historic allies https://www.ft.com/content/3e05f236-dd72-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52f9c …pic.twitter.com/lT5Fz96DZz
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Independent arms-tracking organization
@conflictarm found that some weapons bought by the US military in 2015 ended up in the hands of Islamic State fighters within two monthshttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/isis-weapons-arsenal-included-some-purchased-u-s-government-n829201 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Andrew Bacevich: "the great majority of the American people ... remain studiously indifferent to the charade being played out before their eyes. ... How long will it take before the public concludes that they have had enough of wars that don’t work?" http://lobelog.com/a-country-addicted-to-war/#more-42408 …
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