Discussion of American foreign policy is an endless string of talking heads and think tank hacks claiming that we “must” do this or that, for reasons such as global security, values, or credibility. With a little bit of knowledge, it is apparent that the foreign policy class is generally responding to problems they themselves caused (if the problems exist at all). Either way, their concerns are completely remote from what any normal person would understand to be U.S. national interests. In concluding his recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton stated...

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...