American Foreign Policy: The Rest of the Story
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Jun 14, 2021
. Gates quotes Russian General Valery Gerasimov who says the rules of war have changed. The role of nonmilitary power has grown and has often exceeded military power.
After Russian aggression in Ukraine, the US opted for economic coercion and exclusion against Russia. The U.S. promised sanctions and isolation would bring the Russian bear down to its knees. That did not happen.
Instead, a ran economic rings around the US. Putin applied counter sanctions on food imports to jump-start Russian agriculture. That market signal inspired Russian farmers to boost output. Russian agricultural production soared, and Russian food imports fell 33%. In 2019 Russian wheat production was the highest ever recorded. Russia earned a record $24 billion in agricultural exports in 2019. That is over twice what Russia made from exporting arms.
Democrats and Bush Were Right! There Were WMDs in Iraq â of Little Use
We were told two days ago that ISIS now has control of a WMD factory with chemical weapons.
There were WMDs found in Iraq as late as 2008 according to The Atlantic which went through a trove of documents uncovered by wikileaks. From 2004 – 2008, WMDs were unearthed. In 2011, Hillary admitted that there were WMDs in Iraq.
They were relatively small stockpiles, according to The Atlantic.
They were all destroyed, allegedly.
Now we are being told that ISIS occupied Saddam’s loaded chemical weapons facility in Muthanna, Iraq and they were in control of the weapons.
Keeping the Home Court Advantage: Securing America s Cyberspace | Opinion Keith B. Alexander and Jamil N. Jaffer On 4/9/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
The past few months have brought revelations about two of the most significant foreign hacking operations conducted against the United States government and our private sector in recent memory: the SolarStorm / Holiday Bear hack by the Russian government and the exploitation of the Microsoft Exchange infrastructure by the Chinese government.
Last week, the U.S. government highlighted a blind spot in defending our nation in cyberspace. Our adversaries used infrastructure that is based here in the United States. These facts once again demonstrate that as a nation, we simply are not organized, equipped, or trained effectively to take on this mission. More now than ever, as we become even more reliant on our cyber infrastructure in a post-COVID environment, it is critical that the government and the private sector work together