Someone Has to Keep the Wolves at Bay. For Now, It’s Still Us.
Scripture teaches something modern diplomacy avoids: nations are not equal in strength, discipline, or character. Some restrain evil; others unleash it.
Foreign News/Policy
Wouldn’t it be great if the Europeans could offer a real peace plan that didn’t threaten to start World War III?
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 …
Media frets over Afghans and dead narcos; Not so much Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Sergeant Andrew Wolfe
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.
No room for Third Worlders
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!
Trafficking, Drugs and Crime: Unrestricted Warfare Against the United States
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.
Tim Walz, Bagman for Somalia
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.
Make Money Not War; My reaction to the headline was the opposite to the one the Wall Street Journal intended.
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.
Will Vlad and Volod kiss and make up?
Great wars always seem to hinge on obscure places. The end of the Putin War on Ukraine—or at least a cease fire—may rest upon Zaporizhzhia a metropolis of 700,000 people. Just because you may not have heard of it before does not make it unimportant.
So Many People Tell Us to Fight, Fight, Fight for Ukraine Who Never Go to Ukraine Themselves to Fight
We noted, on Saturday, that the proposed peace plan is “a horrible deal for Ukraine, no doubt about that. But it does one thing: it stops the killing! It would be very dispassionate to suggest that Ukraine should keep on fighting, and its people keep on dying, if there were any reasonable prospect that they …
Golden Toilets and the Unresolved Biden Corruption in Ukraine; Ukraine virtue-signalers make me sick
The Ukraine corruption rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper without a shred of accountability for any of the perps – particularly the Americans who were hip-deep in the corruption from the beginning.
Reality Prism – Revelations
It was late September, an early fall in Montana in 2013. I received a call to inquire if I would co-chair a non-governmental organization (NGO) delegation to Cairo, Egypt. The purpose was to meet the head of the Egyptian Armed Forces and other groups involved with the protests and removal of the Muslim Brotherhood
The Trump-Haters and The Neocons Want to See the Fruitless Fighting in Ukraine Go On and On and On
If there is one thing that The Philadelphia Inquirer’s ‘Worldview’ columnist has been adamant on is arming Ukraine to fight the evil Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Russia. But even she couldn’t hide the fact that after 3½ years of war, Ukraine is starting to lose. As Ukraine falters, Trump tries to hand the country to …
A Nobel effort to oust Maduro
Maybe I was wrong. A month after the Norwegians awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader, the decision looks better and better especially when I look at things from what may be their perspective.
Zelensky and the Golden Toilet of War
Under Zelensky, it is open season for Hunter and all the other spawn of politicians in Kyiv thanks to the Russian invasion.
How One General Serves Two Masters — And Somehow Doesn’t Get Court-Martialed for It
Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call a man who works for the President of the United States and thirty-one other heads of state — all at once — and can’t tick off any of them? Answer: The SACEUR.
The Savagery We Forgot: Bosnia’s War Didn’t Fade — We Just Stopped Looking
America has the attention span of a goldfish on an energy drink. If a war isn’t trending, isn’t hashtagged, or doesn’t have a Marvel movie tie-in, it simply evaporates from public memory. And so we forgot Bosnia.
Poor, poor #Hamas terrorists, trapped in their own tunnels
these are Hamas fanatics, who can, and will, and already have tried to continue the war. From The Jerusalem Post:
Winning the tariff war; Ford and GM praise Trump doing for them what Reagan did for Harley-Davidson
It’s happening. President Trump’s tariffs are taking hold and the attitude of Be American, Buy American is returning.
The Old Lie: A U.S. Combat Veteran Reflects on Empire
The old lie will always sound poetic. It always has. But maybe, this Veterans Day, we can start telling a new truth: The most noble act of service isn’t dying for empire — it’s living for liberty, for truth, and for the people God entrusted us to protect.
Afterword — Shadows That Stayed -Balkan Ghosts That Will Never Die
The Balkans Civil Wars never truly vanish from American foreign policy; they just fade into the background noise of newer crises. Yet even now — in 2025 — the traces still remain after 30-years.