Tag: belarus

Stevenson’s army, August 22

– NYT sees trends in recent elections in Ecuador and Guatemala.

– FT’s Gideon Rachman sees East Asia hitting a demographic wall.

– Both NYT and WaPo see trend of state legislation against China

– WaPo sees cluster bombs helping Ukraine

– OMB has released new Circular A11, tells agencies how to prepare their budgets [be careful, it’s 1,070 pages]

– State has warned Americans to leave Belarus immediately.

– Dan Drezner weighs the 14th amendment case for blocking Trump, says it would be better for him to lose at the ballot box.

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Stevenson’s army, August 10

– WSJ report on emerging US-ISraeli-Saudi deal is disparaged by NSC’s Kirby.

NYT explains Biden order on investing in China. Here’s the order.

– Intercept says US urged removal of Pakistan’s Khan.

AIPAC strikes back, Jewish Insider reports.

– Poland sends more troops to Belarus border.

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Stevenson’s army, June 13

– The ever-valuable Politico NatSec Daily explains the administration’s gyrations over the Chinese spy base in Cuba.

– It came up in class: Does Trump’s Judge Cannon have conflict of interest? New Yorker interview explains the law.

US rejoins UNESCO.

– Putin says he’s moving nukes to Belarus.

– NYT says Chinese Coast Guard is more like  a navy.

– Politics of military base names.

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Stevenson’s army, February 22

– The White House has released a fact sheet on the Ukraine war, including embedded links to even more details.

– Politico has a good summary of new laws and policies to counter Chinese technology [relevant to week 7 exercise]

– Yahoo News says Russia plans to take over Belarus.

– Prigozhin accuses Russian military of treason.

– David Frum makes case for AMLO as an autocrat.

– WaPo columnist details GOP budget games.

– Dan Drezner skewers DeSantis foreign policy

– A footnote inspired me to read this article on how, except for US independence, the British won the war of 1775-83.

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Stevenson’s army, February 17

– Munich Security Conference begins today. Here’s their background report.

– NYT has more on Chinese civil-military fusion.

– Belarus president sets Ukraine conditions.

– WSJ reports impact on eastern Europe.

– AP review US military adjustments because of Ukraine.

Commerce & Justice collaborate on security.

– Stimson has a review of Ukraine issues.

– Another debunking of Hersh article on Nordstream2.

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Stevenson’s army, December 30

I have a piece in the Hill about the NDAA.

I’ve been reading a lot lately about the foreign policy debates during 1939-43. In many ways, the emerging split in the GOP is like the earlier one.

David Brooks in NYT calls attention to several long articles during the year, including this about the generational split among progressive groups.

WaPo says Venezuelan opposition has given up on Guaido.

Belarus blames Ukraine for attack.

AP reports on today’s Xi-Putin talks.

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