Erik Prince, former Blackwater CEO and retired Navy SEAL, joins Donald Trump in advising that we can work with Putin to defeat a common enemy, Islamic fascism. Putin is large and in charge in Russia. He is enormously popular with the Russian people, because the country had drifted, post-Soviet communism, kind of off into the […]
Will Sanctions on Russia Just Make Things Worse?
The history of success, or lack thereof, from sanctions put in place by America’s government would indicate that they don’t do much good. They may even do some harm by exacerbating tensions with already belligerent nations. Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at Cato Institute and a regular contributor to The American Conservative, writes that […]
Did America Vote Against Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Today America’s relations with China and Russia stand in worse shape than when President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Did Americans vote for a worsening of relations with near-peer countries? Or did they vote to see these relationships mended and prosperity unleashed? Pat Buchanan asks in “Shall We Fight Them All?” if the Trump policies are […]
Giraldi: Congress Should Consider Forcing AIPAC to Register as a Foreign Lobby
Former CIA agent, Philip Giraldi writes that Congress, rather than examining Russian collusion with no evidence, should instead consider forcing AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to register as a foreign lobby. Here Giraldi lays out his case: AIPAC’s website declares that it is “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby,” so by its own admission it functions […]
How Long Should America Spend in Afghanistan?
Here Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, slams the idea of a generation-long fight against extremism in Afghanistan. Children born at the beginning of the war in Afghanistan are three years away from fighting it. Given the exhortation of America’s neocons to continue to the wars in the Middle East, […]
Are America’s Overseas Bases Vulnerable?
At the Cato Institute, John Glaser makes the case that America’s bases on foreign soil are vulnerable and wasteful. According to Glaser, they may even cause more trouble than they prevent. He advocates for drawing down America’s foreign deployed troop levels in order to avoid being drawn into conflicts where the American people have no […]
Deeper in Debt, America Prepares New War in the Middle East
Pat Buchanan hammers the idea of America’s involvement in another war in the Middle East. The country still hasn’t paid for the last two, another war would only make it harder to ever pay down the trillions in debt accumulated fighting seemingly unending conflicts with no apparent purpose. “One knowledgeable official estimates that the CIA-backed […]
Is America Headed for War with Iran?
After some recent bellicose statements from elder statesman Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan is worried that America may be headed to another pointless war in the Middle East. Buchanan lacerates Gingrich’s comment that “Containment is appeasement and appeasement is surrender.” Pat makes it clear that there are many people interested in seeing the U.S. military begin […]
Vladimir Putin—America’s Puppet Master?
Russia is in bad shape, writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO. Innovative American technology to frack gas and oil has crashed world energy prices. The big loser in this is Russia, which has lost nearly half of its oil revenue, and Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently will do anything to see it stopped (Russia) is […]
Trump Finally Picks an Ambassador to Russia
After a rocky relationship going back to the 2012 presidential election, in which Trump called him weak and a “lightweight,” Jon Huntsman Jr. has been chosen by President Trump as the next ambassador to Russia. Huntsman should have no problem assuming this role. He has been an ambassador in the two previous administrations as well, […]
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