Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Foreign Policy

  • Ukraine

    A perfect storm may soon be upon us thanks to the feckless fool at the helm. These two gentlemen talk sense: Victor Davis Hanson James Soriano

  • James Soriano at The American Thinker

    His latest on Ukraine is America's 'Revolutionary Moment.' What follows is his response to the comments made here on his earlier article Do Not Underestimate Russia's Resolve: I just read through the comments this weekend.  There certainly was a spirited debate.   The comments divide into two kinds, with Michael Brazier and Dimitri raising points about how…

  • Do Not Underestimate Russia’s Resolve

    An American Thinker article by our friend, James Soriano.    The two camps differ not only on the cause of war, they have completely different world views as to how a system of sovereign states works.   Russian war policy is the epitome of a broader realist approach to international affairs:  states have interests, not friends,…

  • America Owns Germany

    Peter Hitchens

  • The Chinese Trial Balloon, Realpolitik, and What it Excludes

    Now this you should read. Excerpt: If I’m right, Beijing’s chief reason for floating a balloon over North America was to see whether it would elicit a response from the U.S. government and military, as well as from the American people. And so it did, judging from the subsequent uproar in the press and on…

  • Rod is Right

    Here: . . . in a turn of fate that is like something out of Greek mythology, the United States is once again fully committed to a war of choice with unpredictable consequences. Except this time, it's a proxy war against a nuclear superpower. As John Mearsheimer has warned, we are playing Russian roulette with…

  • Biden as Fitting Symbol of our Nation’s Decline

    Some of Joe Biden's personal attributes have national analogues in our general moral malaise, our infrastructural breakdown, our lunatic embrace of race-delusional 'critical' race theories and their noxious, anti-civilizational outgrowths such as 'ethno-mathematics,' our economic dependence on geopolitical adversaries for essentials . . . . Biden is corrupt morally, a brazen liar, a serial plagiarist,…

  • Madeleine Albright Dead at 84

    I will now have to leave off calling her 'Madeleine None-Too-Bright,' at least for a time. De mortuis nil nisi bonum, et cetera. This Revolver piece covers the essentials.  Unfortunately, Madeleine Albright’s long career represents all the failures and mistakes that, in just thirty years, have taken America from its superpower apex to the brink…

  • China’s Real Disease is Communism

    Gordon Chang.  

  • The Chinese Virus Wake-Up Call

    Good will come of the current pandemic. People will learn how to be more self-reliant and less reliant on government.   They will learn how to prepare for emergencies.  They will learn how to slow down, prepare their own meals, stay home, travel less, read books, be more thoughtful and introspective, repair things, and anally cleanse…

  • The Four Pillars of the Trump Doctrine

    Malcolm Pollack summarizes Michael Anton's latest. Lefties love 'conversations' about this and that. Why not a conversation — no sneer quotes this time — about Trump's policy ideas rather than about his personality?

  • The Trump Admin: One Solid Accomplishment After Another

    Here: The Trump administration announced Friday that it is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, following a review, commissioned by President Trump, of U.S. assistance projects in Gaza and West Bank. Another demonstration of what leftists lack, common sense. 

  • Dems and Spooks: Why Suddenly So Ferociously Anti-Putin?

    Michael Ledeen provides historical perspective and poses a good question.  It’s a hard question to answer, because we do not know if it is based on new intelligence, or if it is primarily motivated by politics. So far as we know, there is considerable information tying Democrats to the Russians, and relatively less showing Russian…

  • Paul Starobin on the Helsinki Press Conference

    Angelo Codevilla is good, but Starobin is better,  his piece a superb example of fair and balanced analysis. NYU's Stephen F. Cohen will also give you some real insight into what is going on.  Attend to these gentlemen and ignore the lunacies spewed by the lamestream media outlets. UPDATE (14:50). Andrew P. Napolitano weighs in,…

  • The Reason the Foreign Policy Establishment has Gone Mad

    Pat Buchanan: Not since Robert Welch of the John Birch Society called Dwight Eisenhower a “conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy” have such charges been hurled at a president. But while the Birchers were a bit outside the mainstream, today it is the establishment itself bawling “Treason!” What explains the hysteria? [. . .] Using…