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 […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton Taiwan may be Asia’s most imminent flashpoint, but the threats facing South Korea are no less perilous. North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs continue advancing amid constant rumors of another nuclear test, which would be North Korea’s seventh. Particularly significant for South Korea’s emerging strategy in response is the growing realization […]
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This article first appeared in the Washington Post on September 12th, 2022. Click here to read the original article. John R. Bolton served as national security adviser under President Donald Trump and is the author of “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” Few areas of the world seem more distant from the […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on September 6th, 2022. Click Here to read the original article. When there’s a leadership vacuum in Washington, a resolute Britain is crucial to Western interests. Frissons of disapproval shook the State Department last year when British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss first met Secretary […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton In an unprecedented joint public appearance on July 6, FBI Director Christopher Wray and his British counterpart, MI-5 Director General Ken McCallum, warned a London audience of business leaders and academics that China posed a “massive, shared challenge.” Beijing, said Wray, was “set on stealing your technology—whatever it is that makes […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Washington Examiner on July 24th. Click here to view the original article. Whether or not Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) travels to Taiwan in August is a major foreign policy issue. Indeed, the answer will tell us a great deal about who actually controls American […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on July 20th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. President Biden admitted last week that his long-suffering efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal were finally nearing their end: “We’re waiting for their response. When that will come, I’m […]
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By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Washington Examiner on June 27th, 2022. Click here to see the original article. This week, President Joe Biden attends the G-7 summit in Germany and a NATO summit in Spain. These meetings of the free world’s major economic powers and its paramount political-military alliance are particularly significant. America and its allies, […]
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Part II: Reactions to Jordan’s incitement By David Wurmser In part one of this essay, I described the harsh and increasingly hostile anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic rhetoric recently employed by Amman, but also its attempts to champion the Palestinian cause and wrest sovereignty from Israel on the Temple Mount, if not all holy sites in Jerusalem […]
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A history of the struggle to defeat Islamic State in Iraq casts a cold light on America’s strategic decisions in the region. By Ambassador John Bolton This article first appeared in the Wall Street Journal on June 10th 2022. Click here to view the original article. In what may be the final volume of a […]
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