Foreign Policy

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Blink – and You Missed Him: Blinken in the Middle East

The Prince of Peace came to Israel and the Palestinians. He saw. He flew off. In the blink of an eye. Twitch, and you missed him.

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VIDEO: ACURA’s Jack F. Matlock on the Neutrality Studies Podcast: On American Hegemony

The USA has “inherited” the Brezhnev-Doctrine, says last US Ambassador to Soviet Union, Jack Matlock. As one of the men who negotiated the Cold War to an end, Ambassador Matlock talks in a candid interview about how the USA has been using regime-change operations systematically and without remorse ever since the USSR has officially stopped doing so and how the motivations for those changes are—as as they were for the USSR—a matter of ideology. To spread “the liberal world order” the USA today would go further than its old rival.

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The Delusions Of CIA Chief William Burns

CIA Director William Burns’ January 30, 2024 article in Foreign Affairs — Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition – is a shocking display of ignorance and misinformation about Russia, the state of the war in Ukraine and NATO’s military capabilities. Although Burn’s is an educated man and experienced diplomat, this article displays a profound arrogance seasoned with provably false claims. The so-called vision he presents for “transforming the CIA” is a childish fantasy and signals that the CIA is drifting towards being irrelevant as well as incompetent.

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grand Delusions

This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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Flashback: Taking Aim At Maidan Myths 2018: Stephen Cohen Challenges Fictional Narratives

ACURA Founder and Princeton University Professor Stephen F. Cohen wrote that , “The events of 2014 also led to NATO’s ongoing buildup on Russia’s western border, in the Baltic region, yet another new Cold War front fraught with the possibility of hot war. Making things only worse, in late 2017, the Trump administration announced it would supply the Kiev government with more, and more sophisticated, weapons, a step even the Obama administration, which played a large detrimental role in the 2014 crisis, declined to take.”

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The Tragic Death of a Traitor

Part One: Origins

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Death of Navalny Being Exploited to Try and Sustain U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine

Media comparisons of Navalny to Nelson Mandela are totally off-base

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Are we many or few?

“No room! No room!” they shouted when they saw Alice. “There’s a lot of space!” said Alice indignantly.” L. Carroll. “Alice in Wonderland”.

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VIDEO: Col. Douglas Macgregor: Does the US Have a Coherent Foreign Policy?

Judge Napolitano talks with Colonel Macgregor on the latest developments in Ukraine.

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Russiagate or Intelgate?

The publication of the Republican House Committee memo and reports of other documents increasingly suggest not only a “Russiagate” without Russia but also something darker: The “collusion” may not have been in the White House or the Kremlin.