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Ted Galen Carpenter

Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow in security studies at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest. He has penned 12 books -- with his latest, "Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy," coming out in July 2022 -- and has authored more than 950 international affairs articles.

My Articles
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) give an address. (Photo credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Congress Is Willingly Abdicating Its War Powers Again
June 14, 2022 | 3:04pm EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow on Feb. 23. (Photo credit: ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
NATO Ignores Putin’s Ukraine Warnings at Its Own Peril
May 4, 2022 | 3:14pm EDT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addresses the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022. (Photo credit: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine
April 28, 2022 | 12:49pm EDT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky virtually addresses the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022. (Photo credit: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
The US Press Again Becomes a Conduit for Pro-War Propaganda
March 22, 2022 | 3:58pm EDT
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attends a press conference after a NATO video summit on Russia invasion of Ukraine at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 25, 2022. (Photo credit: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images)
Ignored Warnings: How NATO Expansion Led to the Ukraine Tragedy
February 25, 2022 | 2:58pm EST
Russia President Vladimir Putin chairs a video meeting of the Pobeda (Victory) organizing committee at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence. (Photo credit: ALEXEI DRUZHININ-Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Hawks Make Little Distinction Between Russia and the Soviet Union
February 22, 2022 | 4:44pm EST
Joe Biden participates in a debate. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Mr. President, Stay Out of Ukraine
January 27, 2022 | 3:08pm EST
Mark Milley is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Photo credit: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
America’s Privileged Policy Elites and Their Lack of Accountability
November 24, 2021 | 12:52pm EST
Afghan people sit outside the French embassy in Kabul on Aug. 17, 2021 waiting to leave Afghanistan. (Photo credit: ZAKERIA HASHIMI/AFP via Getty Images)
Saigon 1975, Kabul 2021, Baghdad 2024?
September 17, 2021 | 9:56am EDT
Joe Biden gives a campaign speech. (Photo credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
Allied Govs May Support US Neo-Cold War Policies, but Allied Populations Don’t
July 12, 2021 | 10:34am EDT