Fallout from the Biden-Merkel deal on Nord Stream 2
Back in 1989, a large group of Americans, composed mostly of Republican conservatives, went to Moscow to help Russians understand the “values of Western civilization.” The delegation included Sens....
View ArticleBiden's pivot from nuclear war to civil war -- danke!
The timing was poetic: President Biden’s Philadelphia speech comparing states curtailing election fraud to the Confederacy was delivered the same week he hosted outgoing German Chancellor Angela...
View ArticleAfter the Afghanistan debacle, what's next?
As expected, the blame game on who lost Afghanistan is now in full swing.I think the best answer was given by P. Michael McKinley, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, when he stated in Foreign...
View Article'Independence Day' summer meets with yawns
One dares hope that our latest foreign policy disaster, Afghanistan, might derail us from our foreign policy disasters in the making, such as Russia and China. That President Biden's first phone calls...
View ArticleVolodymyr the Invincible
Soon after the spectacle of woke America's self-humiliation in Afghanistan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was getting an "'ironclad commitment" to Ukraine's security, sovereignty and...
View ArticleUkraine on my mind
During his recent visit to Washington, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Biden and a few members of Congress. One of the officials, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Democrat, presented...
View ArticleTo combat the energy crisis, scrap the Green New Deal and revive industrial...
It wasn't long ago that many people found themselves rolling their eyes upon hearing officials like Mark Carney in 2015 first talk about a greening of international finance.Reducing pollution and maybe...
View ArticleThe roots of Europe's gas crisis
The gas crisis in Europe has added yet another dimension to a global crisis, with many well-known experts predicting that the worst is still to come.Nowadays in Washington and Brussels, practically any...
View ArticleBefore fixing the world, we should repair our own foundations
It wasn't long ago that many of the liberal supporters of Joe Biden would have found themselves among vast swaths of protesters condemning the foolish imperial aims of U.S. power projection onto the...
View ArticleAnother failed summit? Here's a better choice
Despite the rather dismal and disappointing results of this year's Group of Seven, Group of 20 and COP26 summits, President Biden is getting ready for another one. This next one is dedicated to the...
View ArticleToday's Ukraine gambit as Dr. Strangelove's revenge
Nearly 60 years ago, leading U.S. military and intelligence officials saw only one viable pathway to resolve the Cuban missile crisis: war with Russia and the use of "the bomb." Mocked by Stanley...
View ArticleThe day of reckoning postponed -- for now
As recently as last week, all red flag indicators were pointing to Armageddon. The threat of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and plans for forceful western retaliation were bandied about by the...
View ArticleAndrei Sakharov: Second Coming to His Homeland and the World
If the legendary scientist, peace and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov was alive today, he would have celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year and we can imagine that he would be more than...
View ArticleTreaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on...
During the December 15, 2021, meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry, the U.S. party received a draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on security guarantees and...
View ArticleSearching for an end to the crisis, but is there one?
Some important talks are set for next week between Russian and U.S. officials. These talks will start in Geneva on Monday, followed by a NATO-Russian dialogue in Brussels on Wednesday, and will end...
View ArticleWhat does America stand to gain by surrounding Russia with missiles?
In the wake of the Dec. 31 phone call between Presidents Biden and Putin, two very different perceptions of reality were brought into conflict which we can only pray will be resolved in the coming days...
View ArticleToday's tragicomedy threatens to burn down the world stage
Karl Marx, once the USSR's communist guru but abandoned in Russia while enjoying his second coming in America, quipped that history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. This is what...
View ArticleTime for a new U.S. security doctrine: Revisit Monroe Doctrine
The U.S. is in desperate need of a new security doctrine more befitting those ideals laid out in its founding documents.These principles were elaborated upon by President George Washington himself who...
View ArticleOn the edge of the abyss
Former Sen. Sam Nunn coined the phrase "sleepwalking into nuclear catastrophe" long before the current crisis. Many other prominent American foreign policy experts agreed and presented ideas on how to...
View ArticleWhat happened to America's anti-Fascist traditions?
Americans once took great pride in defeating the Nazi scourge that threatened to run roughshod over the 20th century and beyond. Under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, America mobilized not only...
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