The past two years as recorded by the news media have felt like something out of the book of Revelation. First came the pale rider in early 2020, mounted on jetliners and sleeper trains, as coronavirus became a pandemic. His…
Oleg Ustenko, a top economic adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenksy, slammed the international community in a statement Monday. Ustenko called on all countries currently buying oil from the Russians to stop and said all those who continue to buy…
In its invasion, Russia still possesses, for the time being, a multitude of material advantages over Ukraine. Its air force fields more planes and launches more sorties, though it has largely failed to achieve air supremacy. Its navy has blockaded…
Israel has so far pursued a non-interventionist response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that hard line may soon change as the nation faces mounting pressure from the West to act. In a sign of change to come, Israeli…
Yesterday, Iranian missiles struck near the huge U.S. consulate in northern Iraq. Iran claimed the attack was in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed two members of its Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria last week. What is…
When I’m with kids, I tend to respond to their worries with “it’s perfectly normal” in order to reassure them. You know: “I got a rash.” “It’s perfectly normal.” “My foot hurts.” “It’s perfectly normal.” “My brother bit my ear…
Last October, The American Spectator ran my op-ed declaring that “Putin Has NATO Over a Barrel.” It lamented the precarious position of Europe and the U.S. national security, caused by energy policies intent on total decarbonization. The unintended consequence of…
President Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels has emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin to wage war on Ukraine. Recent sanctions imposed by Biden on Russia, while onerous, have stopped short of crippling Russia’s cash crop: oil and gas. In fact,…
During President Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union Address, he predicted: “We are going to be okay. When the history of this era is written, Putin’s war on Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the…