Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“U.S. leaders routinely intone that the United States stands for a ‘rules-based international order,’ and that Washington has always tried to play its role as benevolent global leader. The reality is decidedly less savory and far more self-centered. Washington’s actual attitude since World War II is one of arrogant national narcissism, and the problem persists in our own era.” (06/23/21)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/arrogant-narcissism-the-essence-of-u-s-foreign-policy/

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“‘The Trump-Deep State clash is a showdown between a presidency that is far too powerful versus federal agencies that have become fiefdoms with immunity for almost any and all abuses,’ I wrote in an FFF article a year ago. Since then, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by fewer than 50,000 votes in a handful of swing states that determined the Electoral College result. There were numerous issues that could drive that relatively small number of votes. But machinations by the Deep State probably cost Trump far more votes than it took to seal his loss.” (06/23/21)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2021/06/23/the-deep-state-defeat-of-donald-trump/

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“Exploiting the memory of the deaths of American servicemen to promote a confrontational agenda that makes another unnecessary war more likely is disgraceful and low, but then that is what we have come to expect from Mike Pompeo.” (06/22/21)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/pompeos-disgraceful-fanaticism

Source: Foreign Policy
by Jack Detsch

“When U.S. and Russian negotiators first shook hands on a comprehensive arms control deal in 2010 that put stiff limits on the nuclear stockpiles of the world’s two biggest atomic powers, the White House saw signs of a thaw in the post-Cold War relationship. … But more than a decade later, even though the Biden administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top deputies in the Kremlin are optimistic about a follow-up nuclear deal, there’s little hope for any breaking of bread or clinking of glasses. As the U.S. State Department plots its negotiating strategy with the Russians ahead of an expected follow-up arms control talk … the talks are increasingly seen as less of a new start and merely a new starting point for a diminished relationship where the two sides can agree on avoiding nuclear war — but perhaps little else.” (06/22/21)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/22/biden-putin-russia-arms-control-new-start/