Tag: Venezuela
Stevenson’s army, October 6
– The lame duck session of Congress will be packed with issues.
– WSJ says US will reduce sanctions on Venezuela to let it export oil.
– NYT says US wants to make Taiwan a porcupine.
– POGO has a big critique of F35.
– FP China newsletter reviews a bunch of books.
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Stevenson’s army, August 22
– NYT reports what Russian media have been saying.
– Miami Herald says Russia is holding exercises in Venezuela.
– In Foreign Affairs, John Mearsheimer warns about escalation in Ukraine.
– In Atlantic, a journalist says we know little about Chinese leaders.
-At Lawfare, a professor wonders whether Gen. Milley has endorsed a “duty to disobey”
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Stevenson’s army, March 8
– Operational problems may prevent MiGs to Ukraine.
– Venezuela maybe can’t produce much more oil.
– How China is censoring war news
– Preparations for insurgency.
– Why Ukraine’s Internet is still up.
Mission creep: 27 national security expertspropose a “limited No-Fly Zone” to protect refugees. Signers include former Amb Taylor, Prof. Edelman, & former Amb Vershbow. [No, no, no; must avoid nuclear war.]
Eliot Cohen has his suggestions.
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Stevenson’s army, March 7
– NYT says US has approached Venezuela about buying oil.
– WaPO says US is planning in case there is a Ukrainian govt in exile.
– WSJ says Russians are recruiting Syrians for Ukraine war.
– K St Lobbyists for Russia out of luck.
– Politico has more on the interagency fight over trade policy
– A student told me of Treasury Oct 2021 report on sanctions policy.
– Amy Zegart analyzes effects of Ukraine info ops.
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Stevenson’s army, October 25
– China competitiveness bill also stalled.
– Jim Fallows, who has analyzed presidential speeches for decades, does same for Biden’s CNN town hall.
– Military Times has a searchable guide to US military bases.
-CNN says Pakistan will allow US to use airspace for operations in Afghanistan.
– And news about Chilean elections: Right-winger on a roll in Chile: José Antonio Kast, an ultra-conservative politician who pines for the days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, has ridden a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to the top of the polls ahead of next month’s presidential election. He’s currently at 21 percent, one point ahead of leftist former student leader Gabriel Boric. Talk about political whiplash: it was just a few months ago that Chileans elected a broadly leftwing constituent assembly to rewrite the country’s Pinochet-era constitution in the wake of mass protests about inequality. But Kast, an avowed free-marketeer and social conservative, has tapped into rising resentment against the vast numbers of migrants – in particular from Venezuela and Haiti – who have arrived in the country in recent years. Last month, for example, saw an outbreak of violence against Venezuelan refugees in the northern city of Iquique. Kast has called for digging ditches along the borders and wants a special police force to root out illegal migrants. In the last presidential election, Kast got less than 8 percent of the vote. This time he’s making a race of it.
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Stevenson’s army, September 13
-About 8000 US troops are being deployed to help in what the Pentagon refuses to call an evacuation from Afghanistan.
– AEI’s Fred Kagan says Biden could have stopped the Taliban
-In the Atlantic, a retired Army colonel says US training of Afghan forces was flawed.
-Speaker Pelosi says House staff can now earn more than Members.
We’ll have an exercise in week 2 where you get to decide on the jobs and pay for a House office. Here’s more background from CRS.
-The Guardian profiles Biden’s head of legislative liaison.
-Venezuelan government and opposition are talking.
– FP profiles new Chinese ambassador to US, who used to work for UPI.
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