Over the past week, Trump has made an anti-war, or at least ‘anti-endless war’ sentiment a central focus of his messaging. He’s talked about wasted American dollars and wasted American lives. He’s at least hinted at the possibility of troop withdrawals (as opposed to merely re-positioning troops within the countries they’re already deployed in). These…
“The Obama-libertarian foreign policy does not make America safe. If ignoring radical Islam made America safe, there would NOT have been a 9/11.” –Lindsey Graham today on Twitter The Obama-libertarian foreign policy does not make America safe. If ignoring radical Islam made America safe, there would NOT have been a 9/11. — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC)…
President Trump announced on Tuesday that he asked for John Bolton’s resignation Monday night and Bolton complied this morning. “I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore…I asked John for…
Hasan Piker, a commentator for the progressive media network, The Young Turks, got really nasty in his criticisms of Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (R-TX) approach to foreign policy while doing a commentary of the congressman’s conversation with Joe Rogan on Tuesday. Piker went on a minute-long angry rant in which he asked if the Congressman had learned…
Former Congressman and two time presidential candidate Ron Paul had some very nice things to say about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) on foreign policy when he was asked whom he favored on the Democratic side in the 2020 race for the White House in an interview last week on the state-funded Russian media network “Russia…
Molly Prince America has been bouncing between interventionist and isolationist policies when embracing international relations, but foreign policy is not a binary option. Sen. Ted Cruz advocated for peace through strength, which he contended made him a “non-interventionist hawk.” America must acknowledge how the world objectively is and handle situations with pragmatic judgment rather than…
I recently got a fortune cookie that read “necessity is the mother of all invention.” That takes on a whole new meaning under Communism as is evident with North Korea’s new edible clothing line for men that can be eaten to “avoid starvation.” Alek Sigley, an Australian graduate student at Kim Il Sung University in…
Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) seems to think that President Trump’s decision to withdraw from never-ending wars in the Middle East is a bad idea. On Wednesday night, the Texas representative took to both Twitter and Instagram to criticize Senator Rand Paul, saying that he was giving President Trump “bad advice.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BsuEOg7ncFa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link What was Crenshaw…
The Trump administration is reportedly considering former Democratic Senator Jim Webb as a replacement for General Mattis as the next Secretary of Defense. The idea to select Webb for the position has been mentioned by three officials, potentially bypassing more hawkish Republican options. Mr. Webb has been an outspoken critic of military interventionism and the…
Hanna Bogorowski Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan replaced James Mattis in the Pentagon role late Monday and vowed to work with President Donald Trump to advance his agenda, a task Mattis professed in his resignation letter to no longer being able to do. Trump announced the leadership change Dec. 23, just three days after…