McConnell Undermines Conservatives to Help Reid
Right Scoop Staff Cruz, Lee, and Paul aimed to strip the IMF legislation out of the Ukraine aid package, which would double the US' IMF contribution while abating our influence on how the money is...
View ArticleRussia vs. Ukraine: The Tragic Perils of Nationalism
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow)| 3/26/14 From America’s standpoint, whose flag flies over Crimea today is irrelevant. But the revival of nationalism backed by military...
View ArticleWashington Should Not Risk War Over Ukraine
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) For most of its history the U.S. avoided what George Washington termed “entangling alliances.” The Russian invasion of Crimea has triggered a...
View ArticleCentury Old Terrorists Still Creating Wars From Iraq To Ukraine
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 7/2/2014 A century ago one of America’s most disastrous presidents, the haughty, sanctimonious, and egotistical Woodrow Wilson, imagined...
View ArticleUkraine Crisis Reminds Americans Why NATO Should Not Expand
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (@Doug_Bandow) | 7/30/2014 The ongoing strife in Ukraine is a crime by Moscow and tragedy for Kiev. It’s also a warning for America. Washington should...
View ArticleU.S. and Russia Must Find Exit to Ukraine Impasse
By Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/2/2014 Obama has no plausible strategy to reverse Putin’s policy toward Ukraine. While sanctions may be hurting Russia in the short...
View ArticleU.S. Must Tell Ukraine No to Joining NATO
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 12/30/2014 Ukraine is a security black hole and past NATO expansion has added members with minimal militaries and extensive problems. No...
View ArticleWashington’s Lonely Hearts Club: Six Allies America Should Dump
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 2/19/2015 Washington has spent decades collecting allies, like many people accumulate Facebook “Friends.” After Valentine’s Day Washington...
View ArticleDespite Ukraine, Europeans Won’t Protect Themselves From Putin
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] | 6/25/2015 Even if Russia threatens the continent, the Europeans don’t plan on defending themselves. Instead, virtually everyone expects...
View ArticleWhy is America Adding Montenegro to NATO?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] NATO originally was created to act as a firebreak to war. Current policy threatens to turn it into a transmission belt of war. After getting...
View ArticleTrump Is Right: U.S. Should Discuss Ending The Nuclear Umbrella Over Japan...
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute [@Doug_Bandow] The way Washington won agreement from some nuclear-capable powers to abstain from going nuclear is to provide a “nuclear umbrella,” that is,...
View ArticleDonald Trump has Upset America’s Allies: They Should be Disturbed
Doug Bandow [@Doug_Bandow] The U.S. is expected to protect virtually every prosperous, populous, industrialized nation. But that’s just a start. Washington also must coddle, pamper, praise, uplift,...
View ArticleWashington’s First Obligation is to Defend America, not the World
Doug Bandow [@Doug_Bandow] Former NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s greatest fear appears to be that Donald Trump might be elected and end Washington’s unique global role: “What is at...
View ArticleThe DC Establishment Is The Party Of War
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 9/22/16 Neither party establishment is prepared to advance a strategy for victory, neither party establishment is prepared to successfully “wage peace.” Only Donald Trump...
View ArticleExpanding NATO Makes America Less Secure
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute | 9/28/16 Donald Trump has questioned whether we are getting value for the defense dollars committed to NATO, CHQ contributor Doug Bandow makes the case that...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Never Met A War She Didn’t Want Other Americans To Fight
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Of Hillary Clinton's belligerent record Donald Trump observed: “Sometimes it seemed like there wasn’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton...
View ArticlePresident Trump Should Give NATO to the Europeans
Doug Bandow, former Special Assistant to President Reagan NATO should be turned over to the Europeans, allowing them to handle their defense as they desire. This would not mean cutting relations. But...
View ArticleTime for a European Nuclear Deterrent?
Doug Bandow, former Special Assistant to President Reagan There is no evidence that the Putin government intends to start an aggressive war against Europe, and no alliance member, including the Baltic...
View ArticleOilman Rex Tillerson and Ukraine
Daniel Oliver, American Greatness Rex Tillerson was the chairman and chief executive officer of the seventh largest company in the world. That means he is likely to be at least as capable a Secretary...
View ArticleWho Fears Russia? Not the Europeans!
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute | 6/9/17 Last year NATO Europe devoted an estimated $265 billion to defense, almost four times Moscow’s expenditures of $68 billion. The Russian Republic is...
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