Category: Foreign Policy
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Trump has Made News Great Again
Politics in hyperdrive. Who can keep up? And to what extent should one keep up? Here are a couple of articles that caught my eye: The Islamic Republic's New Lease on Life. Mercifully brief, and very interesting. In Foreign Affairs, by one Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar. I'd be interested in Caiati's and Soriano's comments. Elon Musk…
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Is Trump Still the TACO Man? Or is he now THE HAMMER?
VDH, Ten Iranian Questions: Trump had warned the Iranians on numerous occasions. They never got the message. They were apparently listening to the American Left’s smears of Trump as a “TACO” (“Trump Always Chickens Out”)—a silly slur phrase that just died Saturday night. And die it did. To hell with the American Left with its…
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Trump, Nukes, and Nation-Building
It is blindingly evident that Ayatollah Khamenei and the rest of the radical Islamists in control of Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Donald Trump has been clear and consistent about this during the ten years he has been in the political spotlight. He may speak of diplomacy and agreements but he…
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The Lion Rises and Roars
It's about time. Expert analysis.
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How Trump Won the Canadian Election
Philip Cunliffe: In electing a consummate globalist to defend Canadian sovereignty, Canadian voters exhibited a voluble national pride more commonly seen south of the border. In that sense, even if Trump may not get his 51st state of the Union, he has nonetheless imposed the value of sovereignty and national independence on the archetypal post-national…
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Nile Gardiner on Trump, Eurosceptic
Key Takeaways Trump is treating the European Union as a competitor and even an adversary, as a force that is actively undermining the U.S. economy and the American people. Trump shares with Europe’s rising national conservative parties the view that far too much power is in the hands of Brussels. Americans increasingly hold that the…
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MACGA: Make the Continent Great Again!
Europe has lost its collective mind. The UK is especially troubling: The University of Oxford, one of the most revered and historic institutions of higher learning in the world, has requested that Oxford city council officials add the names of five soldiers who fought against Great Britain in the First World War to a memorial honoring…
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Zelenskyy’s Performance in the Oval: Two Views
We live in times of extreme social and political polarization. (We are so polarized that we are polarized over the nature, extent, and causes of polarization! But I will resist the temptation to meta-level digress.) Cathy Young, A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle Philip Wegmann, How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump
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Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope
Victor Davis Hanson
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A Reason to Shut Down USAID
Here
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Move Over IRS: Make Way for the External Revenue Service
I kid you not. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change.…
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Why Israel Deserves Our Support
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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About Whataboutism
A quick take of mine. Why it works internationally.
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Fire the Bastards!
Here: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that federal employees who take part in a planned walkout in protest of the Biden administration’s Israel policy should be fired. Well of course. But don't expect the Biden admin to do so since their talk of the rule of law is just talk. If the Biden bums took the rule of…
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Robert Kaplan on Henry Kissinger
Robert Kaplan: Kissinger’s beliefs, which emerge through his writing, are certainly not for the faint-hearted. They are emotionally unsatisfying, yet analytically timeless. They include: Disorder is worse than injustice, since injustice merely means the world is imperfect, while disorder tempts anarchy and the Hobbesian nightmare of war and conflict, of all against all. It follows,…