Sanctions alone rarely force capitulation or even major concessions. The post Trump’s ‘Low-Key’ Economic Strategy Won’t Work appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s ‘Low-Key’ Economic Strategy Won’t Work Sanctions alone rarely force capitulation or even major concessions. Although President Donald Trump is unable to publicly admit that “mistakes were made” in his war with Iran—as American leaders sometimes describe their own blunders—he seems to be implicitly acknowledging that the military strategy he pursued has failed. He’s moving to a new strategy of extracting concessions from Iran via economic coercion, rather than bombing. Trump has described this as a “low-key ” and longer-term approach to the conflict. He is concentrating on…Open
AI:Ivan Eland argues that President Trump's current economic approach toward Iran is insufficient, asserting that relying on sanctions alone is a failed doctrine that rarely forces concessions from hostile regimes. This critique suggests that the administration's "low-key" methodology lacks the necessary decisive action to achieve true capitulation, potentially resulting in mere political theater rather than actual strategic victory over the Iranian regime.Open
American adversaries have learned how to outlast the U.S. The post Is the U.S. Capable of Being Cautious About Foreign Interventions? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Is the U.S. Capable of Being Cautious About Foreign Interventions? American adversaries have learned how to outlast the U.S. (Photo by Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr./U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images) The United States loves to remember the Second World War and the Gulf War, because they resulted in the United States smashing the huge conventional armies of diabolical adversaries such as Adolf Hitler, the Imperial Japanese, and the former American ally Saddam Hussein. Yet most recent U.S. wars haven’t gone all that well. Although the outcome of the Korean War against countries using conventional…Open
History and the mechanics of world oil markets undercut a narrative about the Iran and Venezuela adventures. The post Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China History and the mechanics of world oil markets undercut a narrative about the Iran and Venezuela adventures. Credit: Mark Geistweite It was astounding to learn from the TV show of the former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) that an overall theme seems to be forming for President Donald Trump’s much more aggressive, second-term foreign policy in his private conversations with high-level Trump administration officials. Unfortunately, that theme is based on a very shaky grasp of reality. Scarborough said the Trump administration rationale coming…Open