Foreign Policy
[The U.K. is] making choices [to back Biden on competition with China], and the choices have consequences [AUKUS, Afghanistan].
They’re [the British] making choices [to back Biden's prioritization of competition with China], and the choices have consequences.
Aftershocks: Pandemic politics and the end of the old international order
[The people claiming that there is some sort of unified theory of Blob-dom are not thinking clearly. For one thing, even within Brookings there is a wide range of opinion on Afghanistan. Wright supported the withdrawal, for instance — which would seem to make him a traitor to the Blob, even though he is, by any definition, in the Blob himself.] My impression is that people who talk about the Blob have not read or inquired into what the people in the think tanks have actually said about the topic. They don’t know what they’re talking about. [But...] if they want to say that Biden is doing something that Richard Haass disagrees with, then that’s true, he is.
