A hostile handover
President Trump has backed down from his efforts to stop the United Kingdom from surrendering the key Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. Only weeks ago, Trump rightly opposed the United Kingdom’s planned surrender of the island of Diego Garcia, a move that would benefit the top threat to the American way of […]
A stable Middle East?
The Middle East remains a violent place with Islamist forces warring against the Judeo-Christian rooted West, even as a ceasefire holds against Israel and Hamas. Once Israeli forces began to withdraw, Hamas poured into the streets and has been conducting public executions of any Palestinians deemed insufficiently loyal. There are no signs that Hamas will […]
On the road to peace for Ukraine?
President Trump greeted Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday and when a reporter shouted: “What is your message to the people of Ukraine?” President Trump answered, “We love them.” And the rest of the day went about like that for Ukraine and the NATO Alliance. This was a wildly different interaction than […]
Israel’s Righteous War and Lessons for Americans
Years of restraint have given way to a culminating punishing assault by Israel, and now it is eliminating Hezbollah’s top leadership in Lebanon. It should not come as a surprise that Israel is thumbing its nose at the Biden administration, which urged it to negotiate a deal with the Iranian-supported terror group rather than escalate […]
America’s New Nuclear Deterrence Era
In a speech earlier this month, senior National Security Council official Pranay Vaddi acknowledged a new, uncomfortable reality: For the first time ever, the United States must deter two nuclear peer adversaries. “The president recently issued updated nuclear weapons employment guidance, which takes into account the realities of a new nuclear era,” Vaddi told the Arms Control Association in […]