Pure, Malevolent Theater ….. Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.”

What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit By Roger Kimball| July 16th, 2018 When Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin ended their joint press conference in Helsinki, the punditocracy predictably swarmed all over it like ants around a pile of crumbs. Was Trump winking at Putin? Did he really say he believes Putin more than he believes Robert Mueller about…

Merkel and Hollande’s conflicted loyalties mark limits of NATO’s and Washington’s influence

  Asia | The State of the Century     Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks in Kiev last week that the United States is considering providing weapons to the embattled Ukraine government of President Petro Poroshenko threatens to ignite a political crisis in Europe that could have profound implications for the U.S. Not since…

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The Weakened West: What will America Fight For ?

  A nagging doubt is eating away at the world order—and the superpower is largely ignoring it “WHY is it that everybody is so eager to use military force?” America’s cerebral president betrayed a rare flash of frustration on April 28th when dealing with a question in Asia about his country’s “weakness”. Barack Obama said…