needed to end this thing in Afghanistan…but we need to do it smartly, not wildly screaming for the exits, hoping that Beijing, Moscow, Islamabad, and New Delhi can keep everything together. They can’t–and won’t.
Tag: Barack Obama
What Are Biden’s Foreign Policy Priorities?
China,. Iran, Russia, and the future of America in space are all topics of concern in this wide-ranging, freewheeling discussion between popular author and leading geopolitical analyst, Brandon J. Weichert, and Salem Radio Network’s Seth Leibsohn. Weichert assesses the efficacy of current early Biden foreign policy priorities and whether or not the 46th president will rise to this most serious historical challenge. Thus far, it’s a rocky start. Here’s to hoping things can get better over time, though!
Joe Biden’s ‘Values-Based’ Foreign Policy is a Loser
This article originally appeared in Brandon J. Weichert’s November 5, 2020 op-ed column at The Washington Times. Should former Vice … More
Watch Out for Russia
BRANDON J. WEICHERT | THE WEICHERT REPORT “Only nuclear weapons protect Russia from enslavement by the West.” – Vsevolod Chaplin, … More
Obama Broke NATO
In 2013, the Turks, a NATO partner, wanted access to U.S. Patriot missile defenses to protect against any spillover from the Syrian Civil War. The Obama Administration refused. Since that point, U.S.-Turkish relations have collapsed and NATO has quietly broken because of this. The recent Turkish invasion of Syria merely highlights this fact.
What Is Russia Doing?
Russia has behaved boldly on the world stage under Putin. Now, I believe they are targeting Western communication linkages in space and undersea in order to render the US deaf, dumb, blind all to achieve their geopolitical goals of reclaiming a safe space buffering their borders from Europe.
Was Afghanistan the “Good War”?
“The next time some hack tries to argue that the War in Afghanistan was the “good war,” just remember Shakespeare’s old line about life being a “Tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Much like his jog through the deserts of Iraq, former President Bush’s War in Afghanistan lost sight of the real enemy: jihadist terror networks in favor of an unpalatable regime (in this case, the Taliban).”
The New-Old World Order is Here (Part V)
“Basing our foreign policy on hard-to-discern ideals–or conflating the ideals that must define the American citizens’ relationship with his government with the kind of brutish action that is often necessary to preserve the national interest abroad–is idiotic.”
Stop Calling It the “Long War”
America doesn’t–and shouldn’t want to–fight long wars. The immense failures of the Global War on Terror prove why.
After Action Report: Cyber Peace With Russia?
I cut through the partisan miasma and actually perform a cost/benefit analysis of Putin’s proposed joint-Russian-U.S. cyber warfare unit.
