The Big Stick

Deep dives on international security & foreign policy.

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[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

"There was always going to be a billpayer for the brave new world of globalization, and it was our communities themselves. Maybe we didn’t know it at the time, or maybe we just didn’t care."

https://t.co/DkxSnmk6g9

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

This is beyond awful. President Trump should issue an E.O. tomorrow forbidding any executive branch agency employee from doing anything to advance this absurdity while we wait for Congress to kill it. What is wrong with the people who designed this? Have they spoken to any veterans of GWOT much less families of the fallen?

[BNO News @BNONews]

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

Best estimates say the US economy loses $200-600B a year due to Chinese economic espionage. My latest breaks down why the exact figure is still unknown and why China's intellectual property theft is so hard to counter.

https://t.co/AZ2wgx2bqU

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

Congrats Morgan!

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

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@RapidResponse47 @POTUS

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

It's a fugazi.

[Marko Kolanovic @markoinny]

I have a sense that China, Japan, and EU may come with their own trade deficit formula that involves buying of US treasuries.

[Russ Read @RussCanRead]

We are once again watching the usual power vacuum cycle play out in Syria at the cost of countless lives. My latest breaks down why so many are quick to turn a blind eye to this violence.

Here's a snippet from @TheBigStick:

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

A snippet from my latest piece: The Utterly Predictable Sectarian Violence in Syria.

Full link here:
https://t.co/qYOb4kIYar

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

NEW: The Utterly Predicable Sectarian Violence in Syria

"We’ve seen the scenario play out time and time again. From Gaddafi in Libya to Saddam in Iraq—a Middle Eastern strong man falls, a power vacuum ensues, and sectarian violence is the result."

https://t.co/Kdt5b1TzX8

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

@ElbridgeColby's confirmation hearing for Undersecretary of Policy is being held today. I had the opportunity to interview him last year. Check it out here: https://t.co/rchmIzrzcp

[Russ Read @RussCanRead]

"Yet 26 months have elapsed since the enabling legislation was enacted, and the Commission has never met."

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

@DefenseAnalyses @smallwars

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

NEW: The Foreign Policy Blob Has Forgotten How to Negotiate.

https://t.co/QmiMBp6NGp

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else." - Theodore Roosevelt

[Russ Read @RussCanRead]

Le Grande Canadian Resistance, a story in 3 acts:

[The Big Stick @TheBigStick]

NEW: Trudeau knows Canada can't win a trade war with the U.S., so why is he adding fuel to the fire?

Read more to find out:

https://t.co/nZF2cCGjKD