Amid soaring tensions with the U.S. and China, the State Department approved a previously revealed White House plan to supply $1.1 billion in arms to Taiwan, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This announcement has angered Beijing which warned of...
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How a Classical Frenchman Predicted the 21st Century’s ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
by Bas Spliet | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Two hundred years ago, Benjamin Constant foresaw the rise of humanitarian intervention as the foremost modern pretext for war. In the age of commerce and democracy, the state had to concoct "scandalous lies" to subvert the peaceful international order based on free...
Liz Truss and the Future of British Imperialism
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as the British prime minister after the UK’s Conservative Party voted to make her the leader of the government. She beat out former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and is expected to be formally named prime...
For 18 Months, as ISIS Advanced, the U.S. Did Nothing to Stop Them
by William Van Wagenen | Sep 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2017, U.S. and allied Kurdish forces bombarded the city of Raqqa, the bastion of ISIS in Syria and the de-facto capital of the terror group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Concurrent to this, U.S. forces conducted massive air strikes on the Iraqi city of Mosul, to...
For First Time, Taiwanese Troops Take Aim at Chinese Drone
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Taiwanese troops fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that was flying in airspace over Kinmen County, an archipelago of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The Taiwanese Army’s Kinmen...
Joe Biden’s Demand of ‘Unconditional Surrender’ to Russia Will Fail
by Douglas Macgregor | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the Combined Chiefs of Staff Conference in Casablanca, Morocco ended in January 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill held a press conference. Toward the end of the press conference, FDR told the correspondents that the...
The Afghanistan Withdrawal, One Year Later
by Dan McKnight | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This is a mournful anniversary. One year ago, on August 26, thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed by ISIS-affiliated suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul during the evacuation. They were the last Americans to die in Afghanistan. Poor planning by the...
Washington Is Gaslighting Us About Taiwan
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since Nancy Pelosi’s purposeless diplomatic visit to Taipei on August 2, cross-strait tensions have soared between China and Taiwan. Pelosi’s envoy has effectively reduced U.S.-China relations to its lowest point since at least 1995—when diplomatic efforts between...