President Trump has been handling the Venezuelan crisis skillfully and enjoying a substantial publicity boost as a consequence. Some may be wondering how Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan dictator — with his oil revenues cut off, the economy a wreck, and much of the population starving — is still managing to hold onto power. An important […]
In Afghanistan, It’s Deja Vu All Over Again
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and now a 17-year losing war in Afghanistan….One wonders: is the US ever again going to elect a leadership that fights its wars to victory or abstains from engaging in them in the first place? In important respects the Afghanistan fiasco is a carbon copy of earlier failures in Korea, Vietnam, and […]
Why does atheist China have Muslim and Buddhist allies?
Why are Muslim and Buddhist countries allies of an atheist China that murders their co-religionists? Key Muslim-majority countries allied with China include Pakistan, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Yet Chinese persecution of its Uighur Muslim population in Xinjiang is disgraceful and extreme. Key Buddhist-majority countries allied with China include Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. But China’s persecutions […]
What to do about China as an existential threat to the US and other free nations?
China within a matter of years will pose an existential military threat to the United States. At 1.34 billion inhabitants, it is four times larger in population than the US with its 311 million. Once a nation industrializes, a greater population means greater wealth and power rather than just too many hungry mouths to feed. […]
Republicans, Trump cave on guns; Mueller plagiarizes Russian journalists
Today we cover four headline issues: (1) gun laws post-Parkland shootings (“Republicans, Trump cave on guns”); (2) two health reports; (3) the latest in the Russian collusion narrative (“Mueller plagiarizes Russian journalists”); and (4) pipeline cooperation between frequent enemies Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Gun laws post-Parkland shootings Despite the advice of the Wall Street Journal‘s mainstay […]
