Presidential administrations come and go but the war machine churns relentlessly on. “Defend the Guard” legislation can throw a monkey wrench in its cogs. Defend the Guard is a state-level bill that would stop the deployment of a state’s National Guard units unless...
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Zelensky: Peace Talks Are an ‘Impossibility’
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an “impossibility.” The decree was first put forward by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine....
On Ukraine, Democrat and GOP Leadership Agree That War is Good
by David Pyne | Oct 3, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the past seven months, the Biden administration has pursued an increasingly escalatory policy to help Ukraine kill tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, destroy Russian military assets and even attack targets inside Russia itself. As I mentioned in my number one...
TGIF: The Scourge of Conscription
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
By now Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" ought to be such a cliche that it would hardly need to be said. And yet, it must be said -- often -- because many still haven't gotten the word. If the state is the adversary of liberty, as it...
Who’s Winning in Ukraine? George Orwell (and Baghdad Bob)
by Peter Van Buren | Sep 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Score another point for author George Orwell as his masterwork 1984 continues to serve as an instruction manual for our society. In the world of the future, war was a constant feature, though the sides changed frequently. Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are the three...
Congress Set to Approve $12 Billion in Additional Aid to Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Congressional negotiators agreed to include nearly $12 billion in new spending on the war in Ukraine in a stopgap spending bill that will likely be voted on this week, Reuters reported on Monday. Sources told Reuters that the $12 billion will include $4.5 billion in...
I Didn’t Join the Military to Fight for Taiwan
by Dan McKnight | Sep 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Are you ready to go to war to “protect” a place, thousands of miles away from our nation, which we have no treaty alliance with and no overriding national interest? I’m not talking about Ukraine, even though we continue to pump that country full of billions of dollars...
Vladimir Putin Makes His Nuclear Threat
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a partial mobilization that will call up 300,000 reservists and warned Western countries that Moscow would use nuclear weapons to defend its territory. The move marks Putin’s biggest escalation of his war in...