Category: US foreign policy

Inviting China Into Ukraine Conflict Would Be a Grave Mistake for the West

Commentary Recently, a prominent American holder of high office and an eminent American academic and historical biographer proposed similar methods for resolving the war in Ukraine. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who in an administration that had more capable and articulate spokespeople on foreign and strategic matters wouldn’t opine on the subject of war in Central…


State Department Missing in Action as World Changes Rapidly

Commentary The theme for incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2021 and the mantra for the entire Biden administration was clear: The adults are back in charge. As the world hurtles toward conflict, as China conducts influence operations in an unrestrained manner, and as former, trusted partners of the United States have seemingly changed…


Biden Admin’s Foreign Policy Impact on the World

Commentary The Biden administration’s military, diplomatic, trade, and economic policies are turning America into an irrelevant bystander on the world stage. Is the American century over? It is if the Biden administration has anything to say about it. A catalog of policy decisions since Joe Biden took office provides a clear and utterly damning picture…


Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…


[PREMIERING at 10AM ET] Is America’s Foreign Intelligence Service Interfering in US Elections?

Over the last decade, the U.S. government has turned its attention from hostile foreign actors to ordinary American citizens. It’s the assault on our constitutional rights that threatens to turn a beacon of democracy into a third-world security regime. And in the middle of this “whole of society” approach to censorship, surveillance, and propaganda is…


We May Be Losing but at Least We’re Morally Superior

Commentary “Can’t anybody here play this game?” That was the title, supposedly quoting the words of legendary Major League baseball manager Casey Stengel, of Jimmy Breslin’s book about the hapless, 120-game losing, 1962 New York Mets. I think the same words could apply to the American foreign policy establishment in the 45 years since another…


A Coherent Foreign Policy Could Revive Biden’s Fortunes

Commentary As America and the world watch the Biden administration sinking in every poll on its overall performance and in every specialized poll in each policy area, no one should imagine that the strategists of the Democratic Party, no matter how grim their reelection prospects may be right now, have resigned themselves to defeat. By…


Conservative Nationalism and US Foreign Policy

Commentary At its most exemplary, conservative nationalism is a democratically oriented and civic form of patriotism, a love of a particular place, maintaining that the world is best governed by independent nation-states and that only within the context of such states can a free citizenry experiment with constitutional forms of self-rule. In foreign policy, conservative…