The European Union is wonderfully goofy. What other transnational government has three presidents? This has proved to be as ludicrous in practice as in theory. Years ago a planned visit by President Barack Obama triggered a vicious cat fight over…
President Joe Biden, at a press conference in Tokyo to launch the new Indo-Pacific trade pact, said Monday that the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked the island. A White House spokesperson was quick to say that this…
The late and colorful New York Mayor Ed Koch used to say, “We have a saying in New York: a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.” You can add an entire nation mugged by reality: Finland. Throughout the…
India has thus far not condemned the Russian Federation, nor has it criticized President Vladimir Putin for the barbaric invasion of Ukraine, its sovereign neighbor and former republic of the Soviet Union. Why is India on the sidelines making so…
France will choose its next president this Sunday. As in the 2017 election, voters will once again decide between Emmanuel Macron of the centrist Republic On The Move Party and Marine Le Pen, the candidate for the far-right National Rally…
Next Sunday, French voters will decide on their next president. While most of the country and the rest of the world are united, for valid reasons, against populist Marine Le Pen, the truth of the matter is that voters have…
Compared to her defensive position during the final — it was also the only — debate of the French presidential campaign, Marine Le Pen’s last speech, at a rally of her supporters in her northern circonscription (district) in Arras, was…
There are a variety of assessments about France’s role in world affairs, or in Western civilization and its hypothetical decline, but from the viewpoint of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, standing like a Maccabee against the hordes coming out of frozen…
The result of the first round of the presidential election has confronted France with the prospect of power in the hands of Marine Le Pen, the far-right populist leader. She is only two to four points behind President Emmanuel Macron…
