#Sanctions

The current US approach to promoting human rights in East Asia is too geopolitical, punitive, & inconsistent. It promotes backlash without tangible improvements.The US must adopt a new multipronged approach
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The US admin currently possesses way less leverage than it did in 2013, but one truth remains: the regime and its allies respond to credible threat of force. This can
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#Turkey-backed Azerbaijani soldiers engage in a beheading. Other theaters of Turkish backed barbarity and terrorism are #Syria and #Libya. Sanctions currently on the table in the EU and US.https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/13362480523535
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In defense of cancel culture, a thread:One of the markers of canceling is that it is crowd action. Being canceled is not being fired, being jailed, being excommunicated. It can
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Today #Ethiopia is entering civil war territory as federal troops deploy to take on #Tigray (TPLF) forces after what Addis said was an attack by the northern region against a
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WaPo got Bolton book too. “Pres. Trump asked Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election...”https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17
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Accusations about #Xinjiang China is a huge topic that I will go into more detail another time. One thing that is striking about the controversy is how 'witness testimonies' quickly
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Situation Update, Dec. 14th – Calls grow for Insurrection Act, window of opportunity Dec. 18th – 24th Overview of the Dec. 14th Situation Update:Increasing calls for Trump to invoke the
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In recent weeks, IR scholars have reckoned publicly with the central position of White supremacy in the theory and practice of international affairs. As he's laid to rest, I wanted
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Five years ago, I had barely slept for 2 weeks. Now I've recovered, and with the #Parisversaire today, I've been thinking about how we designed the #ParisAgreement – and how
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everytime i hear about a Coinbase executive claim that politics should be left at the door, i think about one of their old pitch decks in which they (approvingly) highlighted
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BREAKING @SidneyPowell1 “You might as well call them Venezuelan machines, because that’s essentially what they are, through a number of different companies, to do this. And yes, we have Venezuelan
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BREAKING: DNI Ratcliffe confirms foreign interference in elections; deep state desperate to DELAY the report, Dec. 18th deadline will be missedCritical developmentsDNI John Ratcliffe has now publicly confirmed that the
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When we rest we often feel guilty. Society values effort, productivity and achievement above everything. But for me resting isn’t doing nothing, it’s an essential part of preparing to do
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Today @PerthUSAsia launches ‘Adapting Australia to an era of geoeconomic competition’. We argue that geoeconomics - the application of economic instruments to geopolitical ends - will be a major challenge
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2003 Belarus playbook from a CIA regime-change NGO "It is much easier to shut off one valve than ten or a hundred"https://web.archive.org/web/20200811141232/http://www.ceche.org/communications/Axis.html 1. Global propaganda campai
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