The goal of statecraft should be to end great-power rivalry, not relocate it. As long as the root causes of inter-imperial conflict (👇) persist, shifting America’s military presence in Asia simply relocates the line of competition www.un-diplomatic.com/p/naval-impe...

“If US military power falls back to the second- or third-island chain, that would simply shift the line of inter-imperial competition, substituting a new Pacific-Island powder keg for an old East Asian powder keg.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/naval-impe...

“If the Iran War teaches us anything it should be that bullshit wars are proliferating; and if they are possible, they are also inevitable. The only way to guard against bullshit wars...is to tie the hands of future presidents.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bernard-br...

“Who, in the age of MAGA counter-revolution and Democratic Party support for illegal war, thinks the US president should have push-button nuclear launch authority or options to ‘take decisive action against any target, anywhere, at any time?’” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bernard-br...

“If the Iran War teaches us anything it should be that bullshit wars are proliferating; and if they are possible, they are also inevitable. The only way to guard against bullshit wars...is to tie the hands of future presidents.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/bernard-br...

Inside Hegseth's counter-revolutionary future of war--the rationalists are out, and the fascists, freaks, and transphobes are in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayPR...

"Trump administration is [directing] more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human rights fund to.. advancing white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, a campaign against Brazil’s supreme court..Europe [groups] who protect “western civilizational norms”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NZ media keep publishing the “opinions” of people who profit off of the thing they advocate spending public money on. It’s so blatantly a conflict of interest (also poorly argued) www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Glad to see this piece from @vanjackson.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...

On imperialist multilateralism www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-im...

Important piece (w quotes from me) about the Philippines as a site of intersecting forces: the resource-extraction fetish, US militarism, Manila’s oligarchic families, and imperialist multilateralism www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Understanding Trump’s Greater North America on fascist terms suggests the worst is yet to come. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...

“Something that should arouse introspection is that the methods of fascist geopolitics are imperialist top to bottom—methods that the US has been intermittently deploying around the world for generations, and with growing frequency the past decade.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...

This by @vanjackson.bsky.social is very good on Trump’s neo-fascist regional politics. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/28/t...

I have a new essay out in Foreign Policy raising alarm and introspection about the geopolitical concept of “Greater North America”: "Is fascist geopolitics somehow unique? How, if at all, does liberal imperialism differ from fascist imperialism?” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...

I have a new essay out in Foreign Policy raising alarm and introspection about the geopolitical concept of “Greater North America”: "Is fascist geopolitics somehow unique? How, if at all, does liberal imperialism differ from fascist imperialism?” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/greater-no...