david samuels, author at tablet magazine
Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of West.. ..…
Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of West.. ..…
Obama's perspective draws on that of the critics of Cold War strategy of active balancing, U.S intervention is more likely to generate anti- American coalitions precisely the kind of threat United States feared when it decided to balance. ..…
In particular it was true in 2015 under Obama, who increased it to over Cold War levels. ..…
Chapters eight and nine—too many lies, the new cold war with Russia, and Obama’s betrayal of his Cairo vision—are the most detailed-researched of the ten chapters. ... Such comments were part of Obama’s efforts to cast the new Cold War as a moral..…
Bush and Barack Obama, to list just American Presidents who have held office between the end of Cold War and 2017. ..…
Jeremy Kuzmarov is author of four books on U.S policy including most recently Obama's Unending Wars Fronting Foreign Policy of Permanent Warfare State and Russians are Coming, Again The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano. ..…
The entire US media establishment, the Times in the lead, waged propaganda war on him and Syria since the Obama regime launched hot war on the country in early 2011 — a cold hard truth they suppress, falsely blaming him and his government for US-led high crimes against..…
So believed his father and Bill Clinton and even, albeit with caveats, Barack Obama. After the Cold War, an exalted conception of America’s historical role and responsibilities had become a precondition to being elected president. . ..…
Jeremy Kuzmarov is author of four books on U.S policy including most recently Obama's Unending Wars Fronting Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State and Russians are Coming, Again The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano. ..…
Likewise, Trump administration repudiated Iranian agreement signed by Obama administration, and is escalating warfare with its proxy armies in Near East. U.S politicians waging New Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, and oil-exporting countries that United States is seeking to..…
Likewise, Trump administration repudiated Iranian agreement signed by Obama administration, and is escalating warfare with its proxy armies in Near East. U.S politicians waging New Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, and oil-exporting countries that United States is seeking to..…
Likewise, Trump administration repudiated Iranian agreement signed by Obama administration, and is escalating warfare with its proxy armies in Near East. U.S politicians waging New Cold War against Russia, China, Iran, and oil-exporting countries that United States is seeking to..…
The notion of U.S today revolves around America's Cold War policy of containment. Obama outlined principles for U.S response in May 2011 speech, no simple set of principles could have guided U.S president effectively through Arab Spring.. ..…
France had already begun its metamorphosis during the second round of Presidential in 2017, with the elimination of the right and left of First Cold War parties. During the presidency of Barack Obama, UK decided to leave EU and join North American Free Trade Agreement . ..…
The strategy used by Barack Obama administration placing emphasis on Asia-Pacific region was the first move toward Cold War with China.. ..…
In series of detailed case studies, Carson also discusses Soviet- American air-to-air combat during Korean War, covert operations during Vietnam War, and covert Afghanistan toward the end of Cold War. Carson mentions in passing Obama administration's to launch..…
It could also affect some U.S. companies that began investing in the island, an old Cold War foe, since former President Barack Obama began a process of normalizing relations between the two countries from the end of 2014. . ..…
So much for those who dismissed post–Soviet Russia as merely a “regional” power, including former President Barack Obama, and for the myopic notion that a new Cold War was not possible. . 3. ..…
By intense conflict between, including former President Barack Obama, and for the notion that Cold War was not possible. — except Cold War was driven Soviet Communism and Western capitalism. ..…
Covert operations to overthrow elected governments, as Iran, Chile, and Guatemala, were staple of U.S conduct in this period, and the number and scale of U.S military interventions rose in the aftermath of Cold War.. By pursuing what amounted to But even there, Obama..…
For the past six decades, the U.S. and Cuba have remained locked in a Cold War, with a brief thaw under President Barack Obama. . ..…
For the past six decades, the U.S. and Cuba have remained locked in a Cold War, with a brief thaw under President Barack Obama. . ..…
The Death of Global Order Was Caused by Clinton, Bush, and Obama . America’s post-Cold War presidents could have taken a road that didn’t end at Donald Trump. . . . . . . ..…
After the Cold War, what is the biggest threat to America? The debate between Obama and Romney famously bogged down over the question of whether Russia was our biggest geopolitical foe. While Obama slammed Romney’s answer as a Cold War relic, after..…
Perceptive historians will conclude that a multitude of insensitive actions by those governments poisoned relations with Moscow, and by the latter years of the Obama administration, led to the onset of a new cold war. ..…
The Death of Global Order Was Caused by Clinton, Bush, and Obama . America’s post-Cold War presidents could have taken a road that didn’t end at Donald Trump. . | December 10, 2018, 12:49 PM . ..…
He helped end the Cold War without, as Obama said, “firing a shot.” He spent his life serving his country — from the military to Congress to the United Nations to the CIA to the White House. ..…
Former President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that identity politics originated with Founding Fathers and charged that United States suffered from great smugness after Cold War.. ..…
But relations have deteriorated sharply since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, returning to Cold War characterizations of Cuba and tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been eased by Obama. . ..…
.- Cuban relations have deteriorated returning to Cold War characterisations of Cuba and tightening trade and travel restrictions that had been eased by his Barack Obama.. ..…
Bush’s 2002 repudiation of the ABM Treaty, one of the hallmarks of Cold War arms control, was short-sighted and reckless. Barack Obama’s New Start Treaty successfully put limits on active nuclear warheads, but these efforts were overshadowed by increasingly soured relations with..…
Given Russia and China's improved conventional military capabilities, I may be time for United States to rethink many of the assumptions that have underpinned its strategy since the end of Cold War.. The Bush and Obama administrations NPRs were based on the assumption that..…
Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050 (co-authored with Nick Turse), The United States of Fear, The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, The End of Victory Culture: a History of the Cold War and Beyond, as well as of a novel, The..…
Houthis are authentic home-grown force, and has important doctrinal differences with Iran, Saudi Arabia sees Iranian puppet masters behind every Shiite-led in Middle East, just as Washington saw Soviet control behind every Third World during Cold War.. He directed infamous drone strike..…
With sound judgment, common sense, and leadership, President Bush guided our Nation, and the world, to peaceful and victorious conclusion of Cold War. ... And it was his steady, diplomatic hand that made possible achievement once thought anything and ending Cold War..…
As former Obama administration official Samantha Power noted last year, “During the Cold War, most Americans received their news and information via mediated platforms. ..…
Was JFK’s America a better country than Obama’s America? . World War II and the Cold War gave us moral clarity. ..…
The Brussels massacre found President Obama in Cuba attending to archaic Cold War “misunderstandings”. ..…
Obama explained that he lacked the credibility of some of his predecessors, including Dwight Eisenhower, who, despite his exalted stature, also failed to calm Americans’ fears during the Cold War. . But when Obama tried to provide some useful context, it was clear that he didn’t..…
The move was hailed bringing end to the last remnant of Cold War in Americas. It was supported by both Clinton and Obama administrations, only to be torpedoed by Senate Republicans. ..…
President Obama got another cold shoulder from key senators on Wednesday in his quest for new congressional war powers authority to wage the U.S...…
Instantly after Berlin revealed the first arrest, respected members of the American intelligence community asserted that, in cost-benefit terms alone, there is little point in this kind of Cold War-era spying on Germany. ... It must listen and see in ways no administration found necessary..…
New Cold War Looming? . . . New Cold War Looming? . . . . . • Decision to expand Syrian war could help divert attention from scandals . ... President Barack Obama’s decision to . wade into the expanding Syrian conflict . by arming rebels, who include Islamic extremists..…
President Obama devoted one sentence to U.S weapons in his State of Union speech. Cold War ended more than 20 years ago, and the United States still maintains some 5,000 nuclear weapons in its arsenal, with roughly 2,000 of these deployed on missiles or bombers. ..…
Students of history know Washington savagely cut aid to Yemen following the Cold War. It was only after Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, took the advice of the Saudis and Israelis to make Yemen a military priority that massive aid flowed into Yemen’s government coffers. ..…
This push to establish a new world order under exclusive US authority has been prevalent in all of the US administrations since Ronald Reagan and the end of the cold war. . President Obama, despite what could be his personal convictions is a prisoner of this imperial system. ..…
When this occurs, Volker said, the United States will become even more skeptical of the role of NATO, an organization that many in Washington believe is a relic of the Cold War. “The Obama administration is coming to the same conclusion that George W. ..…
I've made it clear that United States respects the sovereignty of Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering Iran's affairs, said US President Barack Obama with straight face on June 23.. In the middle of Cold War, United States played in the overthrow of..…
Kennedy going eyeball to eyeball with Nikita Khrushchev at the height of Cold War McCain camp to emphasize the need for in dealing with America's enemies, Obama camp to praise JFK for opening dialogue with Soviets. ..…