Saddam Hussein and Iran’s ayatollahs were horrendous leaders who inflicted horrors on their subjects, but neither posed a threat to the United States, despite claims that both were developing nuclear weapons.
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Will Trump Attack Iran?
It’s a far less promising military gambit than Venezuela, but Trump today is more desperate for a distraction.
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Can Marco Rubio Con Trump Into Cuban Regime Change?
The president clearly prefers graft and plunder to full-scale wars. But he’s also easily tricked.
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The Big Winner: China
Trump claimed that his Greenland foray was needed to contain the influence of China and Russia in the Arctic. The result: China is more globally powerful than ever.
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Donald Trump’s Degenerate Plans for Greenland
The worst president in history wants conquest for its own sake, even if it opens America up to nuclear attack.
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Trump Loses GOP Support on China Policy
Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.
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Can Canada Rescue North America?
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has a grueling mission ahead to preserve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
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Shooting the Wounded
Is the order to kill survivors the exception to U.S. conduct, or the norm?
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Trump’s Newest Policy: Is It Racist? Is It Megalomaniacal? It’s Both!!
Free admission to our national parks on MLK’s birthday has been canceled. Free admission on Trump’s birthday has replaced it.
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Trump’s White Christian Foreign Policy
According to our new official National Security Strategy, we have to support Europe’s neo-Nazi right in its fight to keep Europe white.
