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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.

Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander
QiOSK

Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander

The highly unusual move sparked outrage among press freedom advocates

Trump $1.5 trillion
Military Industrial Complex

The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal

This dramatic escalation in military spending is a recipe for more waste, fraud, and abuse

tim kaine war powers
QiOSK

Finally: Senators vote to block military action in Venezuela

Body moved to discharge War Powers Resolution today, moving to a full chamber vote.

 Ngo Dinh Diem assassination
Washington Politics

JFK oversaw Vietnam decapitation. He didn't live to witness the rest.

A coup likely set unto motion by Kennedy memo ended with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem in fall of 1963. Two years later, the US was fully at war.

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