Founders Broadsheet

Before explaining why we believe that the U.S. should power balance, not fight, in Mideast’s civil wars, let’s review the present situation “on the ground.” The Washington Post reports: “President Trump’s assertive new strategy toward Iran is already colliding with the reality of Tehran’s vastly expanded influence in the Middle East as a result of […]

The United States is completely vulnerable to Chinese, Korean, and Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and will soon also face the same vulnerability with respect to Iran. This is because arms controllers and crony defense firms have been blocking a truly effective space-based missile shield, the technology for which already exists. The U.S. also lags […]

It is looking more and more  like FBIGate is a bigger scandal than Watergate. The lead editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal (paywall) states that Russia has sown distrust in the U.S. political system—aided and abetted by the Democratic Party, and perhaps the FBI….Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a U.S. presidential […]

The Democratic Party and Clinton campaign’s attempt to smear the Trump campaign for collusion with Russia has badly backfired. It is now likely that the Trump dossier that Democrats and the Clinton campaign paid for — and got the FBI to swallow — was stuffed with smears provided by a Russian government disinformation unit (paywall). […]