In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump’s calling himself a nationalist. „Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism; nationalism […]
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Macron to Trump: ‚You’re No Patriot!’
Has Russia Given Up on the West?
By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an „evil empire,” was strolling through Red Square with Russians […]
Is Trump Going Neocon in Syria?
Is President Donald Trump about to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war? For that is what he and his advisers seem to be signaling. Last […]
Are the Interventionists Now Leaderless?
„McCain’s Death Leaves Void” ran The Wall Street Journal headline over a front-page story that began: „The death of John McCain will leave Congress without perhaps […]
Would War With Iran Doom Trump?
A war with Iran would define, consume and potentially destroy the Trump presidency, but exhilarate the neocon never-Trumpers who most despise the man. Why, then, is […]
Trump Stands His Ground on Putin
„Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Under the Constitution, these are the offenses for which presidents can be impeached. And to hear our elites, […]
The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back
With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated. The […]
Has the West the Will to Survive?
„If you’re … pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people, and if you’re strong, then you don’t have any heart, […]
Boehner’s Right — It’s Trump’s Party Now
„There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Michigan, gathering of the GOP faithful last week. „The Republican Party is […]
What Is America’s Cause in the World Today?
After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the […]
Are Bibi and Bolton in the Wheel House Now?
Brushing aside the anguished pleas of our NATO allies, President Trump Tuesdaycontemptuously trashed the Iranian nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. Prime Minister Theresa May of Great Britain, […]
Don’t Trash the Nuclear Deal!
This next week may determine whether President Trump extricates us from that cauldron of conflict that is the Middle East, as he promised, or plunges us […]
Macron: The Last Multilateralist
„Together,” President Macron instructed President Trump, „we can resist the rise of aggressive nationalisms that deny our history and divide the world.” Before Congress he denounced […]
We and Mr. Trump are heading into interesting times.
Syrian Showdown: Trump vs. the Generals With ISIS on the run in Syria, President Trump this week declared that he intends to make good on his […]
Reining in the Rogue Royal of Arabia
If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his royal highness of any notion that America […]