Carus Michaelangelo

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Provoked: The Long Train of Abuses that Culminated in the Ukraine War

12/12/2024 Mises Wire Carus Michaelangelo

[ Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton, The Libertarian Institute, 2024; 690 pp.] “ A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog...

“Victory Plan” or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan

11/01/2024 Mises Wire Carus Michaelangelo

It’s finally here: Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Victory Plan,” furtively touted for weeks as Zelensky sought, unsuccessfully, to peddle it to world leaders. Until now, all that Zelensky would say...

Four Years of Biden’s Foreign Policy Failures

10/26/2024 Mises Wire Carus Michaelangelo

In around three months’ time, the Biden administration will be out of office. Exits typically prompt reflection. For an outgoing administration, the chief task is to shape the narrative. Secretary of...

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“Victory Plan” or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan

12/03/2024 Carus Michaelangelo

The darling of America‘s political elites, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, now touts a “Five-Point Plan” that surely will extend the war and ultimately make his country even worse off. It is time to end this farce.

We Lose, They Lose: A Reagan-Trump Fusion

10/29/2024 Carus Michaelangelo

In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.

Enough Already: Stop Provoking Russia

10/11/2024 Carus Michaelangelo

The Ukraine war rages on and while the media and political classes repeat the “Putin started it” mantra, the evidence points elsewhere. The US government and its European allies have provoked Russia for years, hoping it would lead to an outbreak of war.

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