U.S. dysfunction over impeachment dooms improved ties with Moscow
For anyone interested in the prospect, however remote, of improved U.S.-Russia ties, get this straight: It isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever.
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How Washington turmoil affects U.S.-Russia relations
As the political temperature in Washington rapidly rises to unprecedented boiling levels, when accusations of attempted coup and state treason are exchanged between the president and the speaker of the House, what's the danger of spillover into the foreign policy arena?
Why the G-7 is irrelevant
The world has changed since the establishment of the G-7. No longer are these economies the most important in the world. Italy, Canada, even Germany and France, have drifted into socialist zombie land, unable to grow or realize their potential.
Forget G-7, what we need is G-5
At the August Group of Seven summit in France, President Trump suggested inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to the next such summit that the U.S. will be hosting in 2020. Mr. Trump added that Mr. Putin might decline the invitation "psychologically" since Russia was kicked out of the Group of Eight in 2014 for the annexation of Crimea.
Sam Nunn and nuclear war
I had some dealings with Sam Nunn several decades ago, when he was Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia. Growing up in Savannah, I applied to be a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1981. Consequently, I had to drive multiple times by myself to be interviewed by Mr. Nunn's staff in Atlanta for consideration for a USAFA appointment, which in the end was a successful quest.
Mr. President: Send Sam Nunn to Moscow
Nowadays it is hard for anyone much under the age of 50 to imagine, but once upon a time the threat of nuclear war and the prospect of planetary extinction were things people actually worried about.
Is it about Western values or geopolitics?
When it comes to U.S. foreign policy, what we frequently hear from politicians and mainstream media is that it must be based on the well-known foundations of Western values, such as freedom, democracy, defense of human rights, and the supremacy of the rule of law.
Realpolitik or democracy now?
Things happen in cycles. Society shifts from conservative to socialist, from freedom to totalitarianism, from faithful to secular. We are experiencing a similar shift now -- from attempting to impose democracy in the world where we had no business doing so, to rationalizing our ability to impact events globally, and applying our limited resources as effectively as we can.
Russia's role in American politics
It looks like President Trump has a chance to demonstrate the foreign policy pragmatism he campaigned on and was elected for in 2016 at this month's Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
Russian 2020 election meddling is not the threat
The immature cries from the Looney Left have started already -- the Russians are coming in 2020! We have to protect ourselves! And Impeach Trump!
What's to be done about the dire state of U.S.-Russia relations?
The way things between U.S. and Russia are going, we are quickly approaching a repeat of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, which was a pivotal moment of the last century.
Neither Putin nor Trump can afford to back down in Venezuela
As the Russia hoax winds down in the United States and the investigations of the investigators begin, Americans would be wise to take a breath of the fresh air of freedom as it looks like our system of governance will work after all.
What's at stake for U.S. in Ukraine election? Nothing
The mainstream media wants you to think that the future of the free world depends on what happens in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election runoff, scheduled to take place on April 21st. It doesn't.
Ukrainian elections: Why should Americans care?
Back in 2002, when President George W. Bush was mulling his attack on Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell reportedly cautioned him with what came to be known as the Pottery Barn Rule: "You break it, you own it."
Is democracy the answer to the world's problems?
According to President Trump's enemies, the list of his high crimes and misdemeanors, as well as his domestic and foreign policy failures, is so overwhelming that it would be almost impossible to add something substantial to it.
Russia is responsible for Russia's problems
The United States is not a democracy; it is a representative republic.
Russia doesn't want peace; Russia wants power
Let's start out by discussing some plain truths. First of all, the United States pulling out of the INF treaty, to protect its right to do exactly what Russia has done, is not a threat to world peace. Second, no one is threatening Russia.
Are we sleepwalking into nuclear disaster?
If anyone needed proof that former Sen. Sam Nunn, Georgia Democrat, and former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz were right when they recently wrote in Politico that the U.S. and Russia are sleepwalking toward nuclear disaster, it came last week during Vladimir Putin's annual address to the Russian parliament.
The truth is, Russia is expanding
I have written before that I don't believe Russia is the No. 1 threat to American security. On the contrary, a rising China is much more bent on confronting America militarily in the South China Sea or elsewhere, and Iran is bent on developing nuclear weapons to use irresponsibly.
At midterm, mixed results of Trump's foreign policy
Of all Donald Trump's bucking of the bipartisan consensus in 2016, none struck terror into swamp spines more than his pledge to dump the globalists' endless wars and pointless commitments in favor of putting America first.
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