Joshua Byun
@josh_byun
Assistant Professor @BostonCollege | 2022-23 Postdoc @perryworldhouse | PhD @UChicagoPoliSci | Grand strategy, alliance politics, political violence
My article with soon-to-be @JohnsHopkins sociologist Hyunku Kwon, “Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South” is now online at @apsrjournal [Thread]. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Year 67 of the embargo. No doubt this will be the year it finally works.
🚨 Today’s Cuba policy hits the regime where it hurts most: travel and dollars. We must cut off the regime’s oxygen. No more lifelines. No more cash flows. No more excuses. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/20…
Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for Hamas,…
Yet another typical straight line, worst case analysis of China’s strategic views and intentions. Taiwan is, of course depicted as an absolutely critical strategic location, which it is not. But hey, any number can play this game and it seems most do. nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/chin…
Generating support for an internationalist foreign policy requires more vivid fearmongering, says world-famous fearmongerer and Middle-East destroyer.
“Generating support for an internationalist foreign policy requires a president to paint a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active United States. In such a world, an emboldened Putin and Xi, having defeated Ukraine, would move on to their next conquest.”…
As I told France 24 yesterday, if Iran truly wanted nuclear weapons, they could have built them years ago. Just because they’ve enriched uranium to 60% doesn’t mean they want a bomb. It means they’re negotiating. @defpriorities france24.com/en/video/20250…
"US security is not at stake—no matter how many times Netanyahu goes on US television to claim otherwise." @DanDePetris makes the case against striking Iran that the U.S. public needs to hear. @defpriorities thenation.com/article/world/…
The U.S. has launched nearly 400 military interventions in the last 249 years. HALF of these interventions happened between 1950-2019. This is what we're talking about when we say Washington is addicted to war.
Try to imagine a US President telling Ford that they shouldn't sell cars to foreigners, and that they should cut their R&D. It wouldn't happen. But that's what we're doing to one of America's most important exports: Education. 🧵