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Donald Trump’s looming inauguration bodes poorly for vital Western security interests, and Ukraine in particular. Read my full Op-Ed for @Telegraph

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A Biden-Starmer Giveaway Helps China

10/21/2024

The U.K. had no good reason to cede the Chagos Islands, a militarily strategic archipelago, to Mauritius. By John Bolton As a one-term president, Joe Biden appears eager to take actions he might not have taken if he had to worry about getting re-elected. The latest example: He apparently pushed the U.K. to cede sovereignty of the Chagos […]

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A Biden-Starmer Giveaway Helps China

10/16/2024

As a one-term president, Joe Biden appears eager to take actions he might not have taken if he had to worry about getting re-elected. The latest example: He apparently pushed the U.K. to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the island country of Mauritius. The Chagos archipelago is unremarkable but for one […]

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What Next in the Middle East?

10/07/2024

One year after Hamas launched Iran’s “Ring of Fire” strategy with a barbaric attack against Israeli civilians, the Middle East has changed significantly.  Now, the world awaits Jerusalem’s response to Tehran’s ballistic-missile attack last week, the largest such attack in history.  It was the current war’s second military assault directly from Iranian territory against Israel, […]

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Lasting Middle East peace requires regime change in Iran

10/07/2024

October 7, 2023, is truly “a day which will live in infamy,” to borrow Franklin Roosevelt’smemorable description of Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. But what Hamas did to innocent Israeli civilians on October 7 and thereafter is the moreinfamous for its outright barbarity, savagery committed with malice aforethought, thevery definition of terrorism.Stunningly, however, and sadly, […]

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Learn from History or Lose

10/03/2024

Divining the future of European-American relations is particularly difficult when so many Western nations face contentious, rapidly changing domestic politics. In America, the one certainty is that there will be a new president on January 20, 2025, although we cannot confidently predict who. Since neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris have clear national security views, […]

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