Ted Snider

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?”

In both Gaza and Ukraine, the United States has followed a policy of allowing a war to continue – in the former case through its Security Council veto and in the latter by blocking negotiations – while attempting to limit a widening war. In Gaza, attempts to prevent a wider war have focused first on … Continue reading “Pressing the Triggers That Could Lead to Two Wider Wars”

In the early morning of December 31, 2023, the commercial freighter Maersk Hangzhou came under attack by Houthi fighters from Yemen who were attempting to board it. U.S. Navy helicopters responding to its distress calls were fired upon by the small Houthi boats, according to the U.S. Central Command, and “returned fire in self-defence,” sinking … Continue reading “Smashing the Iran Myth: From Houthi to Hezbollah”

The significance of the December 12 UN General Assembly vote goes well beyond the demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. It is a striking repudiation of US hegemony. The significance is not just in the content of the vote but in the context of the vote. US planners have long believed that the … Continue reading “The General Assembly Just Rebuked US Hegemony”

The mainstream media is full of reports that Venezuela is threatening to go to war in order to steal most of Guyana. But it is neither clear that Venezuela is threatening war, nor that annexing the territory would be theft. On December 14, under pressure from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), … Continue reading “Is Venezuela Going to War To Steal Territory from Guyana?”