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1 month ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Ted Carpenter |Sumantra Maitra |Doug Bandow
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump enraged Ukraine’s usual band of cheerleaders in the United States and Europe when he called Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. Their reaction was similar to the sputtering outrage that townspeople directed at the boy who dared insist that the emperor had no clothes. It did not matter that anyone with eyes could see that the monarch was buck naked; noting that obvious truth was politically unacceptable.
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2 months ago | 
econlib.org | David Henderson |Ted Carpenter |Fiona Harrigan |Alex Nowrasteh
By Ted Galen Carpenter, Antiwar.com, February 17, 2025. Excerpts:A recent example of U.S. meddling in the internal affairs of another democratic country appears to have taken place in the Republic of Georgia. According to Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, USAID spent $41.7 million to support its preferred candidates in the country’s recent parliamentary elections. Adjusted for the size of Georgia’s population, such an expenditure in the United States would amount to $3.78 billion.
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2 months ago | 
19fortyfive.com | Ted Carpenter
Donald Trump is displaying a fondness for old-style, unapologetic U.S. imperialism with respect to policy in the Western Hemisphere. Even before entering the Oval Office for his second term, he set off alarm bells among neighboring countries. As president-elect, he said he intended to pressure Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. He also demanded that the Panamanian government return full control of the Panama Canal to Washington.
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2 months ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Ted Carpenter
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past eight or nine decades. Blather about the United States promoting or defending democracy around the world has already faded with the onset of the new administration.
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2 months ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Carpenter
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past 8 or 9 decades. Blather about the United States promoting or defending democracy around the world has already faded with the onset of the new administration.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Ted Carpenter
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents denounce Trump’s foreign policy views both for being “isolationist” and overly sympathetic to autocrats around the world.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
19fortyfive.com | Ted Carpenter
Until President-elect Donald Trump created an unexpected spectacle in the news media by suggesting that Washington coerce Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States and compel Panama to return control of the canal to Washington, most speculation about the new administration’s foreign policy centered around Trump’s likely stance on the Ukraine war. On one occasion, Trump himself boasted that he could bring an end to the bloody fighting between Ukraine and Russia within 24 hours.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
ronpaulinstitute.org | James Bovard |Paul Roberts |Ted Carpenter |Andrew Napolitano
Just before he leaves office, President Biden is commuting the prison sentences of 2,500 people who have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Biden stated, “This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars.”Biden’s last-minute drug-war commutations raise several questions.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Carpenter
Donald Trump’s political adversaries have long contended that he is a danger to democracy both at home and abroad. The alleged threat that he poses domestically is symbolized by the riot his supporters waged at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Opponents denounce Trump’s foreign policy views both for being “isolationist” and overly sympathetic to autocrats around the world.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Ted Carpenter
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government in late November and early December 2024 occurred with stunning speed. There was little question that Joe Biden’s administration and several U.S. allies, especially Turkey, were pleased with the outcome. Washington worked diligently to force Assad from power since 2011, even though the effort triggered a civil war that produced more than 600,000 fatalities and over thirteen million people displaced.
