By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Washington Examiner on December 7th, 2022. Click Here to read the original version. The “peaceful rise” of China as a “responsible stakeholder” in international affairs has long been Beijing’s mantra to conceal its extraordinary expansion of military capabilities. Its rapidly growing nuclear weapons arsenal, which makes it the third-largest […]
By Ambassador John Bolton This article was first published in The Hill, on December 1st, 2022. Click here to read the original article For over three decades, economic sanctions against America’s adversaries have been a critical element of our foreign policy. Unfortunately, increasing evidence shows that, far too often, sanctions are poorly conceived and enforced. […]
By Ambassador John Bolton This article was first published in the Wall Street Journal on November 28th 2022. Click here to read the original article. Taiwan’s local elections on Saturday weren’t exactly held under fire, but the threat from China was palpable enough. The island’s competitive voting contrasted sharply with the Chinese Communist Party’s National […]
This article was first published in the Washington Examiner, on October 28th, 2022. Click here to read the original By Ambassador John Bolton Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine seems an unlikely trigger to awaken long-dormant strains of isolationism within the Republican Party. The worst conflict in Europe (and the largest refugee flows) since World War […]
By Ambassador John Bolton This article was first published on October 4th, 2022, in 19fortyfive. Click Here to read the original. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” President Biden said of Vladimir Putin in March, a month after Russia’s second unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, in remarks the Washington Post called “the most […]
This article first appeared in The Telegraph on August 12th, 2022. Click here to read the original article. Be prepared for Russia to halt hostilities and exploit European weakness in a brazen attempt to secure many of its objectives Russia’s failure to capture Kyiv shortly after its February 24 invasion, kill or overthrow Volodymyr Zelensky, and seize […]
The Georgia Senate loss belongs to Donald Trump. @RepMTG, do you agree with Trump that he should be declared the 2020 winner or that a new election should be held? And what provision of the Constitution would permit that?
As rogue states and powerful rivals grow more dangerous and belligerent, even Biden acknowledges its necessity. By Ambassador John Bolton This article was originally published in the Wall Street Journal, on November 13th, 2022. Click Here to read the original article. Iran now boasts that it possesses hypersonic ballistic missiles capable of defeating existing missile defenses—even in […]
By Ambassador John Bolton Why does President Biden favor policies alienating Saudi Arabia, whose alignment with the U.S. dates from Franklin Roosevelt, while coddling Iran, our most dangerous Near East enemy? Biden’s recent visit to Riyadh, pursuing his political priority to reduce gasoline prices before November’s elections, unmistakably failed. Criticizing Riyadh for meddling in domestic U.S. politics, […]
This article was first published in the Washington Examiner, on October 28th, 2022. Click here to read the original By Ambassador John Bolton Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine seems an unlikely trigger to awaken long-dormant strains of isolationism within the Republican Party. The worst conflict in Europe (and the largest refugee flows) since World War […]
This article first appeared in Politico Europe on October 24th, 2022. Click Here to read the original article. By Ambassador John Bolton John Bolton served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. Watching the United Kingdom’s ongoing political turmoil […]
By Dr. David Wurmser The problem with the Israel-Lebanon maritime agreement just concluded is not only its content, but the surrounding arguments promulgated to justify it in the public eye. There may be secret provisions to the agreement that render it an achievement, but the public disclosures of the terms and rationale for the agreement […]
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