This article appeared in The Daily News on February 8, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton February 8, 2021 Yemen’s long, bloody “civil war” — which has essentially become a proxy war between Iran and Gulf Arabs — is correctly seen as a humanitarian tragedy. Too many, however, including President […]
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Beijing Won’t Let America ‘Compartmentalize’ Climate Change
Biden officials’ urgency about emissions makes them likely to sacrifice more-important goals. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on February 3, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton February 3, 2021 President Biden is eager to make climate change a central issue, and he can expect an intense debate. The trade-offs […]
Read MoreAssaulting Sovereignty and Freedom through Investment and Banking
By Dr. David Wurmser January 26, 2021 Many have recently become aware of the immense distortion posed by the alliance of large social media with government, enshrined in US Section 230, which exempts such firms from liability and undermines anti-trust actions. While this poses an obvious threat to free speech, as was exposed during the […]
Read MoreTrump didn’t think, or act, strategically about China. Biden needs to do both.
This article appeared in The Washington Post on January 25, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton January 24, 2021 China honored me with an Inauguration Day surprise, sanctioning 28 former Trump administration officials, myself included, for being generally unkind to its authoritarian rulers. China’s real target, though, was the minutes-old Biden […]
Read MoreTrump Impeachment 2.0 Is as Flawed as the First
I am not saying Trump is innocent. But if his foes really wanted to punish him, they would simply ignore him. This article appeared in The National Review on January 25, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton January 25, 2020 I have nothing good to say about Donald Trump’s meretricious […]
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong with a European Army
An expiring arms-control deal is a chance to address hypersonics and make China come to the table. This article appeared in FORUM.EU on January 18, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton January 18, 2020 The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, now completed at last, is the most consequential […]
Read MoreJoe Biden’s Early Test From Moscow and Beijing
An expiring arms-control deal is a chance to address hypersonics and make China come to the table. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on January 17, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton January 17, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden’s advisers have been signaling that they will rely on arms-control […]
Read MoreTrump has caused the Republican Party great damage. Here’s what conservatives should do next
Trump had no philosophy, no principles and no plan to govern, and yet the GOP supported his rise to power – with distastrous consequences. The party needs to understand how that happened before it can do better This article appeared in The Globe and Mail on January 16, 2020. Click here to view the original […]
Read MoreOne of the saddest days in American history has broken Trump – and deservedly so
The sooner the Trump aberration passes, the better This article appeared in The Daily Telegraph on January 8, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton January 8, 2020 January 6 was one of the saddest days in American history. A sitting President incited a mob of his supporters to attack the […]
Read MoreJCPOA 2.0
This article appeared in The National Review on January 7, 2020. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton and John Yoo January 7, 2020 The first great conflict of Joseph Biden’s presidency could erupt on the field of national security. In his most significant foreign-policy achievement, President Donald Trump withdrew from Barack […]
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