Thanks primarily to the renewal of President Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, Iran’s economy is again in the dumpster. Last week the Iranian rial was trading at a new low — more than one million rials to the U.S. dollar. When…
I continue this series of five articles on conservative long-term policies, today addressing the issue of security, which is fundamentally about freedom. Because without law, justice, and security, there is no freedom, no private property, and no democracy. I don’t…
Harvard University Professor Graham Allison, he of “Thucydides Trap” fame, writes in the National Interest that President Trump may be able to end the Ukraine War on acceptable, if imperfect, terms if he emulates President Dwight Eisenhower’s strategy that ended the…
At first blush it almost seems rational: placing U.S. nuclear weapons in Poland, a NATO member that spends nearly five percent of its GDP on defense would enhance deterrence against a potential Russian attack. And Polish President Andrzej Duda requested…
My colleague at The American Spectator Matthew Omolesky characterizes the “notion of a Reverse Nixon Maneuver,” proposed by Edward Luttwak and other foreign policy realists (including President Trump) as “utterly preposterous,” an “outlandish … geopolitical gambit,” a “pure fantasy, borne…
President Trump is causing a great deal of confusion among our allies and enemies. He has caused disruption of the economies of several countries — including our own — by imposing high tariffs on some imports and then suspending some…
I regret to inform the reader that the realists are at it again, and this time, they seem to have outdone themselves. No, this isn’t about annexing Canada, or invading Greenland, or trading Taiwan for mining rights in Antarctica —…
You can always rely on George Will to invoke the Munich analogy when urging the United States to become further embroiled in wars. The other day, the Washington Post’s favorite conservative columnist trotted out Munich to accuse President Trump, Vice…
It’s unclear whether President Trump wants to be a wartime president or a peacemaker. Trump is about halfway through his first hundred days in his new term as president. So far, he has threatened Hamas with military action, threatened action…
