Reprinted from The Realist Review: At this Saturday morning’s rambling, incoherent press conference announcing the invasion and take over of Venezuela, President Trump made a Freudian slip when, as he was about to hand the mic over to his brain-dead secretary of war,...
Reprinted from The Realist Review: Recently, the New York Times relayed Tucker Carlson’s view that, “The most depressing thing about the United States in 2025 is that we’re led not just by bad people, but by unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people.” This is...
Reprinted from The Realist Review: With the war in Ukraine back at the top of the fold (for now), I was thinking about how it all began and why so few of the good and right thinking liberals here in Washington--with their yellow and blue flags plastered on their cars...
Reprinted from The Realist Review. Donald Trump’s Give Me A Nobel Prize Tour made a stop in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday. At a much anticipated gathering of over 800 US flag officers – who were ordered to the Marine base at the behest of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...
Reprinted from The Realist Review. According to a report by the estimable Kelley Vlahos, this year’s National Conservatism conference in Washington, DC came replete with fireworks – of the figurative variety. In a debate moderated by Modern Age editor Dan McCarthy,...
Reprinted from The Realist Review. A recent CBS News headline blares: Suspect arrested in shooting death of pro-Western Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy, Zelenskyy says. Well. That’s one way of describing Parubiy. Here’s another: In February 2016, I got wind of...
The Realist Review and The American Committee for US-Russia Accord have gathered over a dozen experts on US-Russia relations and US foreign policy to share their thoughts on Friday’s summit in Alaska. Below are contributions from Norman Solomon, Ted Snider, Martin...
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The following is an interview with Nicolai N. Petro about his book, The Tragedy of Ukraine (De Gruyter, 2023). What inspired you to approach the Russia–Ukraine conflict through the lens of classical Greek tragedy? Why...
Reprinted from Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue. In mid-February 1945, a dying Franklin Roosevelt, on his way home from his final meetings with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta, met with Saudi King Ibn Saud on the deck of the USS Quincy on the Great Bitter...
Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The days of Gog and Magog are back. Back in 2003, during a conversation with French President Jacques Chirac, President George W. Bush expressed his view that, …Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East… The...
