What does the US want in Ukraine? A joint article by me, Stephen Wertheim & Josh Shifrinson looks at what comes after the supplemental - and argues that we're making similar mistakes to prior wars prioritizing spending while kicking strategic debate down the road. foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/09/a...
Washington’s current approach is a strategic cop-out—and risks making another forever war.
“War will be a key part of Biden’s legacy,” said Stephen Wertheim..."What’s hard to wrap one’s head around is that, although the United States is not directly involved in the wars in Ukraine or Gaza, the risks of large-scale conflict have become higher over the course of Biden’s presidency.”
The president has spent much of his tenure mobilizing military might against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supporting Israel.
"So long as dominance is the goal, U.S. foreign policy will be defined by worsening tensions with adversaries and a “with us or against us” mentality that forces fencesitting states to take sides." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-us-lik...@stephenwertheim.bsky.social
So long as dominance is the goal, U.S. foreign policy will be defined by worsening tensions with adversaries and a “with us or against us” mentality that forces fencesitting states to take sides.
Never in the years since the Cold War has the United States looked less like a leader of the world and more like the head of a faction — reduced to defending its preferred side against increasingly aligned adversaries, I write in @nytimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/o...
Never has the country looked less like a leader and more like the head of a faction.
US policy in Ukraine is both reasonable and a capacious cop-out. It usefully papers over differences among supporters of aid but risks making a forever war—or worse. In @foreignpolicy.com@emmamashford.bsky.socialforeignpolicy.com/2024/05/09/a...
Washington’s current approach is a strategic cop-out—and risks making another forever war.
Danish version here: www.raeson.dk/2024/stephen...
”Der findes en illusion om at gå tilbage til dér, hvor vi var i historien: At normen er Joe Bidens niveau af amerikansk støtte og ledelse af Europa. Men historien antyder, at tingene er ved at ændre s...
The United States stepping back from European security is a matter of when, not whether, I told Raeson magazine in a wide-ranging interview: carnegieendowment.org/2024/04/01/u...
The younger generation is not likely to carry on President Biden’s level of commitment to a leading U.S. role in European security. So the United States stepping back from Europe is a matter of when, ...
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Stephen Wertheim sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and where the United States should be less involved in the world. This episode is the first in a special The President’s Inbox serie...