Donald Trump's second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government. I previously wrote about “Fighting the Middle State," and at least on that count Trump has not disappointed. He has left the Democrats showing slavish devotion to the federal bureaucracy and the “NGO” sector which employs a veritable army of the useless and over-educated. Most notably, the Trump administration is doing its best...

On Monday, February 24, the third anniversary of what the media calls “Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” the United States shocked the world by voting against Ukraine’s United Nation’s resolution condemning the Russian invasion, which reiterated the same rhetoric that we have heard ceaselessly for three long years. This put the United States and its reliable supporters (besides Ukraine, of course) like Israel and a couple of insignificant Pacific Island nations on the same side as Russia and its supporters, such as Belarus and North Korea. Overall the vote was ninety-three in favor,...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian Arab Republic is one of the most inexplicable political events of the modern era. Though the regime was structurally unsound from over a decade of war and severe sanctions, by all accounts Bashar al'Assad's government had more or less won the war five years prior; they just weren’t able to take back some peripheral areas because they had foreign protection, most notably terrorist-controlled Idlib governate. Then, despite having survived so long in much worse circumstances, the Syrian Arab Army gave up when jihadists broke out of Idlib. An army that...

Tuesday, November 19 marked 1,000 days since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though Ukraine’s civil war has been ongoing for over ten years. President-elect Donald Trump has a clear mandate to try and end the war, but with staffing picks like Marco Rubio as secretary of State, it is not clear that he wants to. Meanwhile, the outgoing Joe Biden administration has agreed to let Ukraine strike into Russia with U.S.-supplied long-range missiles, something which almost everyone seems to agree is a deliberate attempt to sabotage future peace talks. The Biden administration is also trying to run...