Foreign Policy

Lame Duck Donald Fires Head of Pentagon's ISIS Task Force

Trump wants to claim he defeated ISIS.  Trump wants to make it difficult for President Biden to take over.  We are witnessing seriously treasonous behavior. Trump and his enablers are sabotaging our government.

The Pentagon policy official overseeing the military’s efforts to combat the Islamic State was fired on November 30, 2020 after a White House appointee told him the United States had won that war and that his office had been disbanded....

Federal Judge Says New DACA Rules Are Invalid, Crushes Trump Admin

Trump's incompetence has a few rare upsides, like his inability to repeal DACA despite trying really hard for four years.

Chad Wolf was not legally serving as acting Homeland Security secretary when he signed rules limiting applications and renewals for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and those rules are now invalid, a federal judge ruled Saturday.

Trump's Republican Admin Will Not Join Global Effort to Develop And Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine

As Trump continues to ignore the COVID-19 global pandemic, the rest of the world is taking action.

The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine.... a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic....

Pompeo's State Dept Did Not Consider Civilian Casualties When Selling Weapons To Middle East

The State Dept bypassed Congress to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia and others without ensuring they won’t be used against civilians.

The State Department did not fully consider the risk of civilian casualties when it approved more than $8 billion in arms sales to Middle Eastern countries last year...

UN Security Council Crushes Pompeo's Iran Sanctions Proposal

This is how stunningly weak America has become and how disastrous Trump’s Iran strategy is viewed by the rest of the world.

The United States suffered an embarrassing defeat at the United Nations on Friday [August 14, 2020] when the Security Council refused to go along with a U.S. proposal to extend an arms embargo against Iran that is due to expire in two months.

An Updated List of 37 Times Trump was Soft on Russia

CNN has made an admirable effort to continue to update the list of 37 - YES 37 - times Trump has obeyed his boss Putin.

Over the years, Trump's made no secret that he has a soft spot for the country and its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin. Trump has proved that he is willing to reject widely held US foreign policy views and align himself with the Kremlin on everything from Russian interference in US elections to the war in Syria.

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