It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U.S. foreign policy establishment for over 20 years set the stage for what’s happing now.
The United Arab Emirates: America and Israel’s Frankenstein Monster
On February 24, 2026, Donald Trump, the president of the United States now in the second year of his second term, entered the United States Congress on Capitol Hill and delivered what Ronald Reagan’s favorite speechwriter called “the Oprah State of the Union”: an...
