Washington Fellow @diplomacy_peace. Author: 'The Formless Empire'. Bylines various. The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Realism and Restraint. Anti-anime pfp.
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I can be quite skeptical on this concept personally, but we are always up for the challenge of rebutting Rubio and the rebranded crusaders using their own frameworks.
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After the last trip to Japan I promised that next time I would do a round-up of off the beaten path shrines, as those are my favorite part. So here it is.
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One guy on the entire team acknowledges the existence of the vice president of the United States who is standing just feet away. Humiliating.
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One of the benefits of a great power concert is that the great powers can jointly shut down practically any war they want.
People who rail against a spheres-of-influence world don’t seem to understand the benefits. The entire opposition to it comes from a knee-jerk moralism.
"The Iran War just might help end the Russia–Ukraine War. And the Russia–Ukraine War just might help end the Iran War. But first, senior Trump advisors need to play their cards right."
New by me in @amconmag
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🆕 While foreign policy rarely determines U.S. election outcomes, the Iran debacle has brought the costs of military intervention directly into American household budgets.
Disillusionment among voters who believed Trump’s promises to end forever wars and pursue a genuine #AmericaFirst foreign policy could lead them to stay home or reconsider their support at the polls.
Will the midterms become a referendum on Trump’s foreign policy record?
⤵️ Read leading foreign policy experts’ assessments in IPD’s new symposium, featuring @ArtaMoeini, @markphannah @InGlobalAffairs, @jekavanagh @defpriorities, @MrMaitra, @GeorgeBeebe13 @QuincyInst, @SinaToossi @CIPolicy, @ChrisDMott, @RonDodson, @BrettErickson28.
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🆕 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently delivered a speech in Greece calling on Europe to join the United States in its existential struggle to save Western civilization.
At the Kyoto Symposium, IPD’s @ArtaMoeini and @ChrisDMott argue that this is tactical rebranding of liberal internationalism.
Their presentation examines how the Trump administration is distorting civilizationalism and explores what a genuinely civilizational foreign policy would entail in a post-unipolar world.
⤵️ Watch now:
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I can be quite skeptical on this concept personally, but we are always up for the challenge of rebutting Rubio and the rebranded crusaders using their own frameworks.
youtu.be/5jrXcZs2Fh8
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@AMercouris: “We’re looking at a policy of conflict & aggression against non-western countries, but China specifically.”
@ChrisDMott: “If America wants to be the enemy of China, they are finally picking a rivalry with someone who is designed to humiliate & outclass them.”
#Iran
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Trump killed ‘America First’ in Iran — and the midterm bloodbath will prove it | OP-ED by @ArtaMoeini, an international political theorist and managing director at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy in Washington, D.C.
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Enjoy a little tour of id Software back in the ’90s with John Romero! @romero
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NEW POLL: Ending US wars overseas is a supermajority position (67%) among swing state voters.
Recognizing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide and ending all military aid to Israel are majority positions, with even stronger support among Independents.
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Our midterm discussion in light of the Iran War where I also coin the term 'Carpetslobber' for Fetterman.
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Christopher Mott & Oliver Bateman | Elections, Empire, & the Limits of American Democracy
@ChrisDMott @MoustacheClubUS
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The Trump adminstration invokes Xerxes and talks of civilizational war with Persia to mask its "red-pilled" globalism and sell its wars of choice as crusades for "the West".
More likely, they'll end up like Valerian— ensnared, desperate, and losing an empire in the East.
My latest @amconmag.
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The US is the most geopolitically secure nation in human history. The challenge for hawks since WWI has been to overcome this by expanding the definition of America and its obligations in order to justify their foreign policy aims.
Same move, different venner.
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Maybe it was a bad idea to appoint as ambassador to Israel a radical Christian Zionist who thinks it would be fine for Israel to conquer all of the Middle East.
