“A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.” Scott Horton is the liberty movement’s foreign policy hedgehog, endeavoring to convince the American public of one essential truth: the folly of war. But within that sphere, Horton is a fox, weaving an...
The short-lived Assad dynasty has a complex history that ironically came to power by participating in a series of coups that ultimately established the family’s leadership in 1971. Bashar’s father, Hafez, was a key player in the 1963 Syrian Coup d’Etat that brought...
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule is an opportunity for the United States to overhaul its bankrupt Syria policy. The U.S. should have abandoned this policy years earlier, but now there are no longer any pretexts for continuing the collective punishment of the...
After over fifty-three years of sitting on their throne in Damascus, the Assad family's regime has collapsed in Syria. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Moscow without a word, the rebels are in command of every major city and airport, and prisons have been opened. The...
There was a time, just before and just after Russia's invasion, that Ukraine might have lost no territory except Crimea and few lives. But America said no. In December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the United States and NATO with a proposal on...
Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani. Julani found his way to...
On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC), after months of delay, finally issued arrest warrants as requested by the ICC Prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Both men are charged with being...
The recent meeting between outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru offered a stark illustration of the divergent priorities and perspectives shaping the fraught U.S.-China relationship. While the Biden administration’s...
