The Russian war to conquer Ukraine is nearly 11 months old. The U.S. media, which demands instant gratification, has grown bored with it. Nearly the only media mention of Ukraine occurred when top-secret intelligence information about Ukraine (and Iran and…
Unarguably, the war in Ukraine is the result of the machinations of Vladimir Putin, who has been the clear leader of Russia for nearly 23 years. Yet, as one who had a rather unique (for an American) association with Putin…
Two decades after George W. Bush’s disastrous misadventure into Iraq, the Republican Party is beginning to have a serious debate over foreign policy. Although the congressional GOP remains strongly interventionist most anywhere around the globe, the party base is increasingly…
WASHINGTON — It did not take the richest man in the world long to find himself in trouble with the American media. Elon Musk bought Twitter in October for $44 billion and, in no time, found himself in the doghouse…
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton professor, historian, and author of two magnificent volumes on Stalin (with a third planned), appeared recently on the Hoover Institution program GoodFellows with British historian Niall Ferguson, former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster, economist John Cochrane,…
“There is no indication that this was a deliberate Russian aggression on NATO,” affirmed Jens Stoltenberg, the Western military alliance’s secretary general, on Wednesday, following the explosion of a missile in the Polish border town of Przewodów. He said that…
Begin with impromptu remarks over Ukraine that our president made at a Democratic Party fundraiser: Think about it. We have not faced the promise of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly…
The hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton is scarcely believable. Despite her obvious attempt to steal the 2016 election — she hired foreign agents tied to Russia to smear her opponent as an agent of Vladimir Putin — she has the gall…
Russian President Vladimir Putin first took power in 2000. He succeeded Boris Yeltsin in Russia’s first peaceful transition of power from one democratically elected leader to the next — ever. It was a historic moment for Russia. Putin, however, had…
