This is the second part of a three-part series on ‘the Blob’ that runs American foreign policy. Read part one here. WASHINGTON – The Russian war on Ukraine has seen ‘the Blob’ reassert itself with …
Author: James Carden, Asia Times
George Kennan and the Russian Future
US President Joe Biden’s ill-advised and reportedly ad-libbed call for regime change in Russia last week implicitly raised the question what kind of government Washington has in mind should Preside…
The Tragedy of Zelensky
In 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky, a novice politician and former television comedian, rose to the Ukrainian presidency on the strength of a peace platform. But once in power, the peace candidate turned …
George H.W. Bush Was Right About Ukraine
On August 1, 1991, US president George Herbert Walker Bush arrived in Kiev with a message not everyone wanted to hear. Abjuring the temptation toward triumphalism that has since marked the American…