Here Pat Buchanan looks at American hypocrisy and history as related to today’s Ukraine standoff. Today, two courses of action are being hotly pressed upon the Obama White House by the War Party. Both appear likely to lead to disaster. The first is to arm the Ukrainians. This would likely provoke a war with Russia […]
The War Dogs Got 90,000 Americans Killed in Korea and Vietnam
Here Pat Buchanan outlines this astounding number. The United States, Pat explains, has today no vital interest in Syria, Crimea, Iraq, Afghanistan, the South China Sea, or the Senkaku Islands. And Mr. Buchanan correctly notes that countries all over the world want America to come and fight their wars. On our TV talk shows and […]
Is a Serious Washington Foreign Policy Blunder Just Ahead?
Washington does not want to drive Russia and China together. China is nervous about Russia’s aggression in the Crimea. Cato Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter provides detailed perspective and a warning. Henry Kissinger once observed that it should be a crucial objective of U.S. foreign policy to make sure that Washington’s relations with Beijing and Moscow […]
Misguided Putin Aggression Sends Russian Stocks Down 16% YTD
The best way to deal with Putin’s aggression, inspired by Eurasianist Alexander Dugin, is to drive Russian asset values sharply downward while isolating Russia and its oligarchs from international financial institutions. There is also no debate that a plan to drive oil prices downward would have a powerful negative impact on Russia. On a somewhat […]
The Benghazi Cover Up: It Gets Worse
The principals are known. Why have they not been arrested? Here the WSJ looks into the botched effort Congress has made of the cover up investigation. Last week’s encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael Morell and the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence may have brought us a bit closer to the truth of how […]
Russia the World’s Pro-Family Leader?
Is Russia truly a Christian country? Does Vladimir Putin actually believe that it is Russia that is on God’s side and that the West is Gomorrah? And has Putin entered a claim that Moscow is the Godly City of today and command post of the counter-reformation against the new paganism? Pat Buchanan offers a startling […]
Buy an American War on Iran?
If there is a single fat-cat Republican donor who must be shunned by any serious 2016 presidential candidate, this is the guy. Pat Buchanan pries open a festering stew pot that should give every American cause for concern. For four days ending Sunday, a quartet of presidential hopefuls trooped to Las Vegas to attend the […]
Dateline France Elections: Front National (FN) Embarrasses Hollande Socialists
Although NKM came up short in her gaffe-prone bid to become the first lady mayor of Paris, the rest of the news from Sunday’s second round of voting was breathtakingly ugly for Francois Hollande and his imploding Socialist party. The French people, by in large, are fed up with French politics as usual and have […]
Is NATO Less Formidable in Countering Russia?
The New York Times would have Americans believe yes, by referring back to cold war levels of troop deployment and a strange philosophy of a resurgent Russia. My Cato Institute friend Chris Preble pulls the Times editors away from the brink of hysteria with some logic and common sense. We have cut military spending modestly, […]
Putin Bares His Russian Soul
In the WSJ, Peggy Noonan reflects on Vladimir Putin’s remarkable speech last week at the Kremlin. As Peggy writes, “It was a full-throated appeal to Russian nationalism and an unapologetic expression of Russian grievance.” I think we got a deep look at Mr. Putin’s attitudes and goals in his speech last week at the Kremlin, […]