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As part of his strategy for isolating the radical mullah-ruled government of Iran in the world community, President Trump has announced plans to issue a 25% tariff against all countries that continue to do business with the current Iranian regime. This is a counterproductive approach for three reasons. First, and most immediately, this kind of …
The Trump administration did what it needed to do, collecting the Venezuelan dictator in the early hours of a Saturday morn, and bringing him back to the United States, starting the process for a long-awaited regime change in Venezuela at last.
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.
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.
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
Israel’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stood to address the United Nations on Friday, September 26, and much of the room walked out. The world press paints this as a repudiation. The world is wrong.
There are stories in the news saying that the bloom is off the rose, that the special relationship between the United States and Israel is breaking down.
Did we hit Iran hard enough before we stopped? This is always the question, anytime you engage in diplomacy, warfare, or a combination of the two. When it becomes necessary to do something, the question is “How much?”
Well, we are a republic, with a constitutionally organized separation of powers. In the USA, to start a new war, the Congress declares it after taking a proper vote.
When a head of state – such as the President of the United States, for example – wants to encourage certain behaviors in a foreign government, the toolbox is limited.
Diplomacy has rules. No matter how serious the subject matter, the negotiators are expected to be cordial, respectful, no matter what they may privately think of the person or persons sitting on the other side of the table….Most days.
American manufacturing has been declining for half a century. It hasn’t disappeared, of course; manufacturing is still a big part of the American economy. But it’s not what it was, and that’s a problem.
While pictures out of Syria show people celebrating the removal of Assad, I’ll provide some key points about the factions, possible strategic consequences, and a few words of caution.
Please stop pleading for a ceasefire as if it was a simple barfight over some meaningless disagreement. This is existential, and Israel deserves the support of the world in defending itself from these demonic enemies.
The World is on fire. This conflagration is a direct the result of poor leadership by President Biden and VP Harris along with their inability to understand and manage the fundamentals of National Power to our nation’s benefit.
What the United States has yet to understand is that most of the world is getting weary of our meddling in their internal affairs.
The war has been dragging on for seven months; Hamas and Israel are negotiating. This wasn’t ever going to be easy.
Victims included some foreign tourists and hundreds of Israeli soldiers, but the lion’s share of the day’s victims were innocent civilians, ranging in age from infancy to the elderly.
By all appearances, American Democrat party leadership is like a confused gaggle of geese running around in circles honking to the world about who’s in charge
Are you a betting man? As we look at the next six to nine months, as Americans, we know the many possibilities surrounding the coming election.