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Monroe Doctrine
Latin America

The Monroe Doctrine: Stop the revisionist madness and listen

Nostalgia is not strategy. Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way.

Gaza refugees
Middle East

By suspending 37 aid orgs is Israel pushing toward a final expulsion?

At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump's peace plan

Trump SOTU 2025
Washington Politics

Has my party become 'eunuchs in the thrall' of the president?

No provision in the Constitution allows the president to unilaterally bomb another nation's capital and remove its leader

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?
Africa

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?

Both countries have a lot to gain from the controversial new relationship, and judging from the backlash, a lot to lose too

ukraine russia war
Europe

Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right

As usual, critics are still trying to launder their abysmal policy records by projecting their failures and conceits onto others.

US weapons stocks booming, CEOs gloating after Maduro toppled
QiOSK

US weapons stocks booming, CEOs gloating after Maduro toppled

Palantir founder says company exists to blow up communists in the Western Hemisphere