Category: Daniel Serwer
Stevenson’s army, August 6
– WOTR has a piece on military innovation, mainly about the army, but with excellent links to a wide range of writing on the subject.-
– Prof. Brands has a new book on “the coming conflict with China,” and WSJ has an excerpt.
– US strengthened defense ties with Philippines.
– NYT has background on Xi’s thinking about security.
– Politico sees multiple factors explaining Stevens/Levin contest, not just Israel.
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Stevenson’s army, August 4
– NYT reports US war-gaming Chinese responses to Pelosi visit.-
– WaPo says Russia did pre-invasion cyber attack on Ukraine.
– It’s always good to check out recent CRS reports. Here’s one on the Vacancies Act and how it limits “acting” officials.
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Stevenson’s army, August 3
– Speaker Pelosi has left Taiwan and China has muscled up.
– More details on al-Zawahri killing, from NYT and also from WaPo.FDD analysts explain new Senate bill on Taiwan.
– State approves new arms sales to UAE & Saudi Arabia.
– A retiring congressman explains how partisanship grew.
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Stevenson’s army, August 2
– al-Zawahri assassination: CNN has the tick tock; Fred Kaplan has analysis.
– Pelosi going to Taiwan: Tom Friedman criticizes; White House warns China; Senators Menendez and Graham file big bill on Taiwan policy.
– Sen. Hawley opposes NATO membership for Sweden and Finland, another example of eroding US support for countering Russia policy.
– RUSI analyst has revealing comments on Russian military problems
– Lawyer worries about unintended consequences of new security assistance law.
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Stevenson’s army, August 1
Celebrate the admission of my home state to the Union in 1876.
– Mixed news from Ukraine: at last, a grain ship has left from Odessa.
– But Russia has placed its artillery near nuclear plant.
– NYT tells how Russia is preparing for annexation of captured areas of Ukraine.
– NYT sees a new and growing group of single issue voters — parents opposed to masking and vaccination mandates.
Charlie added:
On this anniversary of my home state’s admission to the Union, I was shocked to learn [thanks to Axios Denver] that laws admitting Colorado had twice been vetoed by Andrew Johnson, primarily because the population was too small, perhaps 27,000 just after the Civil War. What shocked me was the section of the veto message noting that the territorial legislaturehad enacted a law forbidding “negroes and mulattoes” to vote “and at the very time when Congress was engaged in enacting the bill now under consideration the legislature passed an act excluding negroes and mulattoes from the right to sit as jurors. This bill was vetoed by the governor of the Territory, who held that by the laws of the United States negroes and mulattoes are citizens, and subject to the duties, as well as entitled to the rights, of citizenship. The bill, however, was passed, the objections of the governor to the contrary notwithstanding, and is now a law of the Territory.”
I also had been proud that Colorado was one of the first to allow women to vote — in 1892 — only to learn later that the key motivation was to dilute the votes of unmarried miners. I guess lawmakers did the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Another troubling fact is that the second Ku Klux Klan was very active in the 1920s, electing a governor, a highly regarded mayor of Denver, and many other officials.
History tells many stories. We should be open to all of them.
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Stevenson’s army, July 30
– Politico wonders whether Russia was behind the collapse of the Italian government
– NYT says Blinken resists Hill calls for Russia to be designated a terrorist supporting state.
[I agree. It causes more diplomatic problems than it adds to Russian punishment. But, of course, it sounds beautifully tough.]
– Here’s CRS background on the law.
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