To liberate means to make free. In the Second World War, Stalin no more liberated anyone than Hitler did. But Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to acknowledge this verity. The lord of the Kremlin periodically regurgitates Soviet propaganda about the…
Last week, lost in all the pointless haranguing about an impeachment trial that isn’t going anywhere was news of a truly entertaining political imbroglio. Namely, the $50 million lawsuit Tulsi Gabbard filed against Hillary Clinton. One doesn’t have to be…
Let’s fight hate with love. We can go to the North Korean Doughboy who fed his uncle to starving dogs, auguring that scene in Game of Thrones, and tell him, “Go ahead and build those nuclear bombs — because we…
At the end of the Cold War, the world was inundated with utopian pieties masquerading as informed policy options — Francis Fukuyama promised a Kantian “end of history” while Charles Krauthammer jubilantly declared America’s “unipolar moment.” Today, as the highs of the…
Many people roll their eyes when they hear “democracy is under attack,” but it is true. There are many countries in the world that do not subscribe to democratic practices and other countries that claim to, but seem to consistently…
The Kerch Strait is a little-known part of the world, yet it is extremely important. It is the lifeline connecting Ukraine into the Azov Sea, as well as the port of Mariupol. From this small waterway, Ukraine has maritime access…
President Trump announced on Saturday that America would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that President Reagan concluded with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The INF Treaty banned both parties from possessing ballistic or cruise missiles having ranges…
The real story about John Brennan’s security clearance is not that he lost it under a Republican president but that he once got one. One of the peculiar footnotes of Brennan’s history is that he obtained a position in Bill…
In a Friday interview President Trump repeated that for him to have a good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin “…is a positive, not a negative.” He added that if things don’t work out he’d be the worst enemy Putin…