It has been observed by many that the main foreign policy difference between the American political parties is a disagreement over which other super power to hate more. For the Democrats, it has been a deranged obsession with Russia for several years now. For the...
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Fact-Finding Mission Reports Normalcy Returning to Xinjiang’s Uyghur Population
by Andrew Corbley | Oct 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2019, China was thrust onto the world stage to account for accusations of gross human rights abuses in the far-western province of Xinjiang. A report consisting of hacked documents and compiled by a fanatical Christian sinologist named Adrian Zenz suddenly made it...
Someone Wants ‘the War to Continue’
by Ted Snider | Oct 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At times, Ukraine has been unwilling to negotiate an end to the ongoing war with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has gone so far as to issue a decree banning negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At other times, Russia has given up on...
Losing a Plane? Try Losing a Nuke
by Kym Robinson | Oct 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, the U.S. Marine Corps lost (and later found) an F-35 aircraft. The circumstances are mostly undisclosed or rumor based, though that is to be expected in regards to such a sensitive matter. While it has become a comical example of incompetence, it’s not the...
Congress Passes Stop-Gap Spending Bill, Ukraine Aid Relegated to Separate Vote
by Connor Freeman | Oct 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Editor's Note: Before midnight, President Joe Biden signed the temporary funding bill. A partial “shutdown” of the federal government, which seemed inevitable amid battles over spending in both chambers of Congress, was averted after the House and Senate passed a...
A Rough Diplomatic Week for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Sep 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the early weeks of the war, a peace was still possible that would have seen Ukraine lose few lives and little to no land. Even the Donbas would have remained in Ukraine with autonomy under a still possible Minsk agreement. Only Crimea would have remained lost. A...
Stone Cold Dead Republic: When Everything is Cast as a War
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Several politicians have vaunted a muscular but myopic plan for dealing with the fentanyl crisis: to eliminate sources of the drug near the U.S.-Mexico border through the use of military force. The fentanyl crisis is being portrayed as an international conflict, not a...
World War III Requires Conscription, Muses U.S. Army War College
by Zachary Yost | Sep 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The most recent edition of the U.S. Army War College’s academic journal includes a highly disturbing essay on what lessons the U.S. military should take away from the continuing war in Ukraine. By far the most concerning and most relevant section for the average...