Ted Snider

In an administration seemingly bankrupt of diplomacy or imagination, U.S. President Joe Biden and his team, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, have responded to the most hair trigger situations across the map in just the past few days with nothing but increased violence. As the risk of … Continue reading “America’s Answer Is More Violence”

“The war in Ukraine is a war in general for values: life, democracy, freedom. So this is a war all over the world,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. “Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine, we are fighting for the values of Europe and the world… That’s why today the American people,” … Continue reading “The Democracy Versus Autocracy Narrative Has a Ukraine Problem”

The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West Brought War to Ukraine, … Continue reading “Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In a New Cold War”

On January 28, the event the U.S. had expected and long dreaded happened. Drones launched by what President Biden called “radical Iran-backed militant groups” struck a U.S. outpost in Jordan on the border with Iraq, killing three American service members and injuring 34 more. There have been more than 150 attacks by Iran-backed militias on … Continue reading “Responding Is Not a Foreign Policy”

On January 13, the Taiwanese returned the Democratic Progressive Party and its new leader, Lai Ching-te, to power. Lai’s winning campaign had a platform of promoting a separate identity for Taiwan and rejecting China’s territorial claims. However, the election may not reflect the simple mandate the West projects onto Taiwan, of turning away from China … Continue reading “US-China Policy Is Not Going According to Plan”

In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned across the region, the people of Yemen rose up. On March 18, over 100,000 protesters gathered in the streets of the capital, Sanaa, demanding the resignation President Ali Abdullah Saleh. When Saleh resigned only to see Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States, slip in a reasonable facsimile, … Continue reading “Who Are the Houthis, and Why Are We Hearing From Them Now?”

The essential argument used to avoid negotiation and continue support for the war in Ukraine is based on a falsehood. That falsehood, repeated by President Joe Biden, is that when Vladimir Putin decided to invade, he intended to conquer all of Ukraine and “annihilate” it. Its falsity has been exposed multiple times by military experts, who … Continue reading “To End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie”

After already launching multiple missile strikes on Yemen, without waiting to see if the action had sufficient deterrent effect, and despite 24 hours of near total inactivity by the Houthi, the United States launched a second round of strikes the following day. After launching strikes from air, sea and submarine on January 11, the United … Continue reading “US Strikes on Yemen are Layered in Hypocrisy”

Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money spent at horrendous cost in life and limb has put Ukraine in a … Continue reading “Wall Street Journal Sets Standard for Irresponsible Journalism in Ukraine”

Fearing a widening war, U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and special envoy Amos Hochstein, have fanned out across the Middle East in a concentrated push to prevent it. Perhaps the greatest fear is that, knowing they will not apply their leverage to stop a wider war once it starts, the United States … Continue reading “Is Hezbollah Preventing a Widening War?”