Today is the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting between North and South Korea. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died pointlessly in that conflict. If politicians and policymakers were honest and prudent, the Korean War would have vaccinated...
Foreign Policy
Russia Will Not Renew International Grain Deal; Some Context
by Ted Snider | Jul 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Like the war that necessitated it, Russia’s decision not to renew the United Nations and Turkish-brokered grain deal is bad for the world but not wholly unprovoked. The deal allowed Ukraine safe passage for its grain laden ships through the mined and blockaded Black...
Sanctioning China in a Taiwan Crisis: Scenarios and Risks
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last month the DC hawks’ favorite think tank, the Atlantic Council, released their long anticipated study “Sanctioning China in a Taiwan Crisis: Scenarios and Risks.” Produced in collaboration with the Rhodium Group, the final product is a highly detailed forty page...
‘Not One Inch’: A Brief Look at the Written Record
by Michael Chapman | Jul 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Although the Joe Biden administration and much of the major media contend that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO expansion, U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor (ret.) told Valuetainment Founder Patrick Bet-David that Vladimir Putin has opposed “the...
Enemies Above: The FBI and the Creation of the Brown Scare Myth
by Brandan P. Buck | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
"Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery." Such were the remarks from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
China Should Be Allowed to Buy American Farmland
by Benjamin Seevers | Jul 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
To suggest that Chinese businesses and Chinese nationals should be allowed to buy farmland in the United States will intuitively send many conservatives reeling. “But…but…it’s a national security threat!” This is presented by both Republicans and Democrats as the core...
Was ‘No NATO Expansion East’ More Than a Promise?
by Ted Snider | Jul 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008, eventual membership in NATO was promised to Ukraine and Georgia with the statement that “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agree today that these countries will become...
Defending the Defensible: Free Trade and Economic Liberalism
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 13, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 1989, the economist John Williamson introduced the phrase “Washington Consensus” to the politico-economic lexicon. It was shorthand for a set of interrelated policies that, taken together, would free trade within states and between them while boosting overall...