The Realist Review
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippmann. Foreign Affairs and US Politics. Standing athwart Neoconservatism and Liberal Interventionism.
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On Radoslaw Sikorski’s Disgraceful Performance at CFR (opens the original)
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The most bizarre comment by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski at the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, was his comment about the Ukrainian Nazi who organized massacres of tens of thousands of Poles during WWII and who has been praised as a hero by Ukraine. He called him “flawed.” FLAWED?? But look, if you are a Russophobe promoting Ukraine, you can’t say bad things about a Nazi who slaughtered your countrymen, can you?That question came after mine, which I present
War Watch: The Storm Cone (opens the original)
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Martin Sieff received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting for The Washington Times. He served as Chief Political Correspondent at United Press International (UPI) from 1999 to 2009."This Is the midnight - let no star"Delude us - dawn is very far."This is the tempest long foretold"Slow to make head but sure to hold."Rudyard Kipling, England's greatest poet of Empire,
Trump Needs New Envoys to Russia (opens the original)
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James W. Carden is the author of The Great Betrayal: How the Democrats Became the Party of War and co-host of Warrior Diplomacy Weekly with Col. Douglas Macgregor, premiering on Monday, September 14th at 11 AM.A version of this piece ran on UnHerd last week and can be accessed here:<a href="https://unherd.com
US foreign policy elite cling to global dominance (opens the original)
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https://harici.com.tr/en/james-carden-warns-us-foreign-policy-elite-cling-to-global-dominance/In an in-depth interview broadcast on the Harici YouTube channel, James W. Carden, an American journalist and author, conducted an exhaustive assessment of global geopolitics and Washington’s foreign policy trajectory with journalist Sarp Sinan Hacır. Carden, who served as a special adviser on US-Russia policy at the State Department, addressed recent international speculation surrounding reported inte
A New Cold War For A Dying World Order (opens the original)
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James W. Carden, a contributing editor at The Nation, is the author of The Great Betrayal: How The Democrats Became the Party of War. Washington is more united than is often thought. Despite the ruptures with an imagined past that have been said to have been caused by the chaos agent in the White House, the foreign policy consensus (underwritten by the national religion of American exceptionalism) has shown itself to possess a remarkable resiliency in
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