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2 weeks ago | 
ronpaulinstitute.org | Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR |Brandan P. Buck |Sohrab Ahmari |Larry Johnson
Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students!This year we will celebrate our SIXTH class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2025 Ron Paul Scholar!What is it?
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
cato.org | Brandan P. Buck
Among them was Vice-President-elect (and Iraq War veteran) Senator J.D. Vance, who noted that “[m]any of ‘the rebels’ are a literal offshoot of ISIS. One can hope they’ve moderated. Time will tell.”This gulf in narrative understanding threatens to undermine further public confidence in American foreign policy and the institutions that implement it.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
cato.org | Brandan P. Buck
Military incursions into Mexico would similarly risk undermining another agenda item of the forthcoming Trump administration, countering China. In recent years, the Mexican government, like Trump and his supporters, has come to view its economic dependency upon China as a net negative. A combination of trade deficits and the prominence of Chinese-owned businesses in Mexico have caused members of the Sheinbaum administration to look to its northern neighbor to diversify Mexican trade.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | Brandan P. Buck
The rapid fall of the oppressive Assad regime after a prolonged civil war has elicited a variety of reactions.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Brandan P. Buck
Tulsi Smears Are an American Tradition. They Shouldn’t Be.Calling Trump's DNI pick an 'asset or a dupe' has its roots in a long history of chilling anti-war speech.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
responsiblestatecraft.org | Brandan P. Buck
"Yes. There’s no question. I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset.” Such was the incendiary accusation that Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) leveled at the former congresswoman for Hawaii and current Trump administration nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Schultz’s accusation was not a one-off, but has been repeated by other elected officials and individuals who support the foreign policy status quo.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cato.org | Brandan P. Buck
Yet they returned with a vengeance on the eve of the Second World War and, due to the demands of the country’s postwar foreign policy, remained in the bloodstream of American discourse, poised to flare up whenever beneficial to the protectors of American power abroad. The “Great Debate,” the so-called (and often acidic) public and legislative disputes that preceded American entry into the Second World War, took on a similar tone to those preceding the First World War.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Brandan P. Buck
“Yes. There’s no question. I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset.” Such was the incendiary accusation that Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) leveled at the former congresswoman for Hawaii and current Trump administration nominee for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. Schultz’s accusation was not a one-off, but has been repeated by other elected officials and individuals who support the foreign policy status quo.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Brandan P. Buck
DRUG CARTELSAn Idea Whose Time Should Never Come: Using Special Forces Against the Cartels Would Be a Colossal MistakePublished 20 November 2024While this idea is not new, it has become hazardous now given the Mexican drug cartels’ increased military capacity and tactical competence. A perennial yet fanciful idea, the notion of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, has once again entered American political discourse.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
anixneuseis.gr | Brandan P. Buck
The documentary has three significant problems. First, it is primarily based on an inaccurate accounting of the past, one which holds that the United States was a disinterested geopolitical actor before the horrors of the Second World War. Second, Zakaria often downplays the costs of the American global order and seeks to assure the viewer that they were—and are—worth the price, suggesting that American prosperity relies on global leadership.
