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The International Traffic in Arms Regulations — was created in the 1970s to stop Soviet spies from sneaking American missiles out in suitcases. It made sense back then. The battlefield was tanks, jets, rifles, and radios. Power was measured in steel and gunpowder.
Syria is not a declared war. There is no Syria-specific Authorization for Use of Military Force. There is no victory condition, no end state, no honest explanation that survives five follow-up questions.
This weekend, the global intifada against Jews (for now) visited Australia. A Muslim father and son turned attacked a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
An 1100 foot oil tanker called The Skipper was sitting off the coast of Venezuela, when the U.S. Coast Guard boarded the vessel and took possession of ship, cargo and crew, launching an international chorus of hand-wringing, microphone-grabbing, and camera-mugging.
The Monroe Doctrine was articulated in President James Monroe’s seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States’ sphere of interest.
Every few years, Washington discovers a brand-new way to make ordinary people miserable in the name of “security.” The latest brainstorm? A proposed rule requiring visitors from 42 friendly nations—including Australia—to hand over five years of their social media history just to enter the United States.
Communist China has exploited United Nations subsidiary organizations, such as the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, for years in pushing Chinese strategic goals and objectives through relentless information and influence warfare. These efforts attempt to shield Beijing and its allies from human rights scrutiny by misdirecting attention away …
María Corina Machado left her hiding place in Venezuela to visit Oslo, where her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for Machado on Wednesday—just as President Trump seized an oil tanker that was trying to smuggle contraband oil for the Venezuelan regime.
President Trump has the opportunity to do in Venezuela what Dubya could not do in Iraq—depose a dictator without a war.
Across Western Civilization immigration becomes invasion when the number of immigrants exceeds the capacity or the capability to assimilate them.
Bosnia’s collapse wasn’t ancient history. It wasn’t a medieval tribal feud. It wasn’t inevitable. It was a functional, modern, educated society that disintegrated in less than two years — not because of poverty, not because of famine, not because of foreign invasion — but because its political factions became so polarized that neighbors stopped seeing each other as citizens and started seeing each other as enemies.
In an ambush near the White House, West Virginia National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom was killed and Andrew Wolfe wounded. Charged is 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan who worked with CIA-backed units during the war in Afghanistan.
President Trump and the modern populist conservative movement have campaigned on ending the forever wars, and are proud that they’ve started no new conflicts (so far, anyway) during either Trump term.
Scripture teaches something modern diplomacy avoids: nations are not equal in strength, discipline, or character. Some restrain evil; others unleash it.
Our good European friends in NATO are very, very concerned that President Trump is going to negotiate a peace deal, or at least a ceasefire, between Russian President Vladimir Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy that won’t be as favorable to Ukraine as they’d like, or, more accurately, too favorable to Russia. However, the European …
The New York Times had another heart-breaking story about poor scared immigrants worried that the mean old ICE will send them back. This time, the concerns are by legal aliens who are from Afghanistan.
For two decades, Democrats and RINOs have refused to uphold our immigration laws—undermining the rule of law and the notion that no one is above the law. Ha!
China, Russia Iran, North Korea and Venezuela are working together, engaging in unrestricted warfare against the United States. Such warfare includes what the Chinese Communist Party describes as a reverse opium war against the United States.
A billion-dollar scandal in Minnesota has solved the puzzle of why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate. It wasn’t because she was drunk (although she was). It wasn’t because he is the only national politician who is dumber than she (although he is). It wasn’t because he is a Chairman Xi-approved communist (although he is). Follow the money.
I have long held that the reason the Arabs stopped fighting Israel was the Arabs were losing money and prestige. Wars are expensive and unless you have a surplus of military-age men that you want to get rid of, you don’t go to war.