Politicians and pundits want to declaim the lessons we should learn from Russia’s war against Ukraine despite the fact that the war — now eighteen months old — may not yet have reached its halfway point. Russian President Putin, as…
Based on its last experience approving a new NATO member, it is no wonder that so many in Hungary’s conservative government have been wary about doing so again. Just a little over a week after Hungary gave the green light…
As melting ice opens up trade routes in the Arctic Ocean, the Far North is becoming another geopolitical battlefield between the United States and its adversaries. The U.S. Coast Guard has fewer ships able to puncture through the frozen sea…
Friday’s announcement that the United States would send $345 million in military equipment to Taiwan from existing US stockpiles under President Biden’s “presidential drawdown authority” was pretty much ignored by the media. It shouldn’t have been. It should have gained…
Unsurprisingly, the question of NATO membership for Ukraine generated the greatest discussion among both the participants at the recent NATO summit in Vilnius and commentators in the major western media outlets. Beyond the sometimes testy exchanges, however, much of the…
When Edward Luttwak speaks, world leaders listen — and now they must consider heeding his advice on Ukraine. Luttwak has been advising world leaders, including U.S. presidents, since the 1980s. He is the author of seminal books on history and…
A recent Fareed Zakaria Washington Post op-ed nicely summarized our new reality: There is a debate within the Republican Party. Some senior figures, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and former vice president Mike Pence, are vigorously making the case for an active and…
In 1946, George Kennan, the U.S. Charge D’Affaires in Moscow, sent an 8,000 word telegram to the State Department warning of Joseph Stalin’s aggressive foreign policy. The following year, writing under the pseudonym “Mister X,” he reiterated his warning in…
Since President Joe Biden took office, the media have made it a policy to ignore his failing mental health. That may be changing very gradually because some in the media who fear a Republican victory next year want to see…
