1143: 2/2: Getting Caught Trying the Unlikely; & What is to be done? @RHFontaine. @CNASdc,
Image: The field of international relations dates from the time of the Greek historian Thucydides. Richard Fontaine, @RHFontaine; CEO of the Center for a New American Security, @CNASdc, in re: The Case against Foreign Policy Solutionism. The 2015 JCPOA: “We’ll get this nuclear deal, open new possibilities”–and of course nothing good happened. Russia, the recent Navalny affair; mass arrest of protestors in a hundred cities. Dismissing Russia as a second-tier power did not work. Sergey Lavrov, and Vl. Putin: do they practice Getting Caught Trying? No, they play a fairly weak hand very well. Assiduous use of [diminished] resources. The Middle Kingdom: get used to having to manage it. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-02-08/case-against-foreign-policy-solutionism?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tw_daily_soc&utm_source=twitter_posts