Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“So sick of liberal hegemony, critics of Washington’s foreign policy have long been apt to seize at anything that promises something, anything, different. Hence the vigorous applause directed towards anyone who doesn’t mindlessly embrace every single one of the blob’s wars. One of the most prominent in the second Donald Trump administration is Elbridge Colby, current Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, who has drawn the predictable beltway ire for reviews of Ukraine aid and AUKUS, among other things. But here’s the problem with Elbridge Colby, and everyone else like him, from the perspective of a restrainer or non-interventionist: he markets himself as the sober realist who corrected Washington’s post-9/11 drift, but his program amounts to militarized primacy by another name.” (08/21/25)