When Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, voices suggested his administration might wind down the Ukraine conflict and pursue a foreign policy of restraint. The reality reveals something far different. Trump's outreach to Russia is not Pat...
John and I continue reading and commentary on the old revolutionary text, Rule for Radicals.
President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will increase its nuclear warheads and allow for the deployment of nuclear-capable aircraft to foreign soil. In a speech on Monday, the French leader said nuclear-capable war planes will be deployed to seven...
President Donald Trump suggested he would be willing to deploy US ground forces to Iran. “I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” President Donald Trump told The...
Update: CENTCOM said the remains of two US soldiers were recovered, raising the overall death toll to six. The US military losses are beginning to build in the war against Iran. President Donald Trump acknowledged that more US troops will die in the fighting. On...
I am back from moving and health setbacks. With Western conflict in Iran escalating and in train, I discuss the vagaries and verities of the nuclear gambit in Iran in the Middle East and what this will mean to the future of warfare for the reminder of this century. I...
In an interview with Sky News Arabia, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza, comparing it to what the United States and its allies did to their enemies during World War II. “Just flatten it. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo," he...
On March 2, 1926, Murray Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, an only child of immigrant parents. His father worked as a chemist and his mother encouraged his voracious reading. Early interests in history and logic foreshadowed a career in which he relentlessly...
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
In an address, President Donald Trump said that three American soldiers had been killed by Iranian attacks, and there “will likely be more.” President Trump said that three American troops had died in the Middle East. He continued, “Sadly, there will likely be more....
