Lev Stesin

The American House of Cards

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,139, August 30, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: US policy in Afghanistan was based on lies, ignorance, and irrational thinking. Many other aspects of American foreign policy, still doggedly pursued, look dangerously similar. For 30 years, US …

The American Colossus May Crumble

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,103, July 23, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US is no longer the country that recovered from the Pearl Harbor disaster and won WWII, or that both morally and economically sustained itself throughout its prolonged ideological …

McConnell, Trump, and the GOP

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,955, March 9, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mitch McConnell embodies what it takes to govern, but Donald Trump represents what it takes to win. Separately, however, these archetypes can achieve neither. Yet unity may prove elusive …

Are We on the Brink of a New Dark Ages?

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,735, September 8, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The foreign policy of a progressive US administration could entail a fanatical pursuit of race-based “intersectionality” policies, similar to the proletarian internationalism of yesteryear. If US foreign policy were …

Kabul in 1979, Minsk in 2020?

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,705, August 23, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Alexander Lukashenko’s days as the autocratic president of Belarus are clearly numbered, and Russia will likely play a key role in his exit. What is less clear is just …

The American Left’s Media Purge

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,675, August 4, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The American Left is intensely frustrated by President Donald Trump’s ability to penetrate their monopoly on the news cycle. When the Left is frustrated, it acts out, up to …

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