| | | | | Dear friend,
Thank you for registering for the Founding Fuel Masterclass series on The World in 2025, scheduled for Friday, 31st January 2025, 6:30 pm and Friday, 7th February 2025, 6:30 pm. This newsletter is part of a series designed to help you prepare for the event, featuring insights about and from our panellists. | | | | | Justin Logan is Director of Defence and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute. He specialises in US foreign policy, international security and US grand strategy. He holds a Masters in International Relations and National Security Studies from the University of Chicago. | | | | | | Logan served at Cato Institute in two phases, starting in 2003 and moving his way up to director of foreign policy studies by 2011. He quit to take on other assignments, including trying his hand at setting up a distinctive wine bar, Ruta del Vino, with his wife Jessica in 2015 in Petworth, Washington D.C. It is named in the 13 essential wine bars in the capital by Eater, a digital media brand dedicated to all things food and dining, months before the couple decided to shut it down in 2018. In 2022, Logan went back to Cato Institute to serve in his present role. | | | | | | | The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank, headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 in San Francisco by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries, before shifting to Washington D.C. in 1981. | | | | PUTTING A STOP ON US OVERREACH | | | | | In line with the Cato Institute’s policy advocacy for a limited governmental role in domestic and foreign affairs and strong protection of civil liberties, in his writings, Logan has called for the US to strategically withdraw from conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, undo the last four years of global insolvency and instead focus on dealing with its most important rival: China.
Logan argued in his articles in The American Conservative that Washington’s blank check to Ukraine has gone on too long, as has its dominance of European security affairs. That burden needed to be shifted back to the European Union states.
Logan has repeatedly said that Congress would be foolish to rack up billions in debt to support a failing war in Ukraine. He has called out the Biden administration’s attempts to publicly advance the delusion that Ukraine can achieve a total and decisive victory against Russia.
“Trump has a generational opportunity to renegotiate the division of labour on European security and get American taxpayers and service members a better deal,” Logan wrote in his blog on the Cato Institute website. Despite attempts by the establishment to “Trump-proof” any efforts to contain military aid to Ukraine, Logan believes there is no way that will constrain a motivated President from cutting off aid to Zelensky and also ensuring that Europe takes charge of its own destiny. | | | | | | | | | | | | Tomorrow: Spotlight on Philippe Le Corre, senior fellow, Asia Society and professor of geopolitics and Asian studies, ESSEC Business School, based in Paris)
ICYMI: Spotlight on Yao Yang, Director, China Institute for Economic Research, and Professor, Peking University, based in Beijing. | | | | FOLLOW US AND ENGAGE WITH US | | | | Warm regards,
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