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Vor 2 Tagen · — Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President George H. W. Bush. Campaigning in 2020, Joe Biden promised to resume Barack Obama’s policy of normalizing relations with Cuba “in large part.” But Democrats lost big in Florida, partly because Cuban American voters made a sharp turn to the right. That setback made the Biden White ...
Vor 3 Tagen · As President George H. W. Bush’s National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft put it, “Cuba is not a foreign policy question. Cuba is a domestic issue.” The result is a policy of regime change that, in 65 years, has done nothing to advance the cause of democracy or human rights in Cuba, but has lowered the living standard of the Cuban people and alienated Washington from allies in Latin ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Brent Scowcroft was appointed as the National Security Advisor, a role he had also held under Ford. In the aftermath of the Reagan era Iran–Contra affair , Bush and Scowcroft reorganized the National Security Council , vesting power in it as an important policy-making body.
Vor 3 Tagen · First and foremost among these was Boris Yeltsin. He was the first popularly elected Russian President whom Brent Scowcroft US NSA observed was «Fundamentally after power.» Douglass Hurd, who was serving as UK foreign secretary at the time, similarly referred to Yeltsin as a ‘dictator in waiting.’
Vor einem Tag · The End of Ambition: America's Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East
Vor 5 Tagen · I’ve read similar remarks made at a National Security Council meeting in the Ford Administration – by Brent Scowcroft – and the idea can be traced back to formal modelling, through rational choice theory, of the rational basis of irrational nuclear posturing done by Daniel Ellsberg during his RAND Corporation days.
Vor 5 Tagen · Her expertise in Soviet affairs caught the attention of Brent Scowcroft, leading to her role in the National Security Council under President George H.W. Bush. From 1989 to 1991, she served as the director of Soviet and East European Affairs, contributing to the policy that facilitated German reunification. In 1993, she became the first woman and African-American provost of Stanford University.
