400 american troops can’t do anything

Washington seems to think almost anything and everything Syria is important enough to require the continued deployment of U.S forces. But the result is half-assed potentially permanent deployment that may not be capable of accomplishing anything at all.. ..

algerian crisis: opportunity for iran, threat to europe

In these games, red represents an allied Russia and China, and blue represents the United States. . rand analyst David Ochmanek said that in conventional war, the U.S. would suffer “heavy losses in one scenario after another and still can’t stop Russia or China,” despite the fact that the U.S...

political tribalism is overstated

This view, increasingly popular since the election, can leave the impression that partisans are unmovable by facts and logic, that they no longer want to associate with anyone on the other side, or that they would follow their leaders into battle against fellow citizens.. ..

banking on the cold war

For these realists, even more than the wooly moralists they sometimes ridiculed, it was the credibility of U.S. threats of force that ensured the freedom and mobility of productive capital and supported its resource needs and allied interests across an ever-widening sphere. ... But it is revealing..

farsnews

This is while the US-led coalition and their allied militants are preparing to declare end of the ISIL by helping out the ISIL terrorists from Deir Ezzur province. . ..

department press briefing

And we are applying this policy to numerous Maduro-aligned officials and their families. ... Many of those armed groups are aligned with Iran, which shares in the blame for their abuses, and which has used those groups to undermine Iraq’s security, stability, and sovereignty. ..

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