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....

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, there was an initial sense of hope that he would wind down the conflict in Ukraine. However, continued flows of military aid to Ukraine and slow progress in the negotiations still make a lasting peace...

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with a small force of around 142,000 troops. Not enough to conquer Ukraine, the invading force was sufficient to persuade Ukraine to the negotiating table. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that was the original...

When I returned home from Afghanistan in 2007, I was frustrated and I was angry.  Originally, I had joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1994, more out of listlessness than patriotic fervor. And when Bill Clinton cut our branch’s budget, I transferred to the U.S....

At the end of June 2024, the world got its first glimpse at what Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine in one day might look like. Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg and former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz submitted a plan to then candidate Trump. In an...

On 14 August 2007, four massive truck bombs tore through the small Yezidi towns of Tel Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidr in Sinjar, a remote district in northwest Iraq. The explosions killed over 800 members of the persecuted religious minority, marking it one of the...

As President Donald Trump attempts to engage with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, supporters of the proxy war in Washington, Europe, and Ukraine claim that President Vladimir Putin is an evil dictator who cannot be trusted. The implication is that talking with...