Ukraine Aid Factor in Speaker McCarthy’s Ouster

Though little noted on mainstream news, America’s disastrous proxy war against Russia was a factor in the MAGA Republicans mutiny against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Their only good spending cut, which fueled their removal bid, was ending all military aid to...

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The Pitfalls of Biden’s Partnership Proliferation

Stephen Walt criticizes the Biden administration’s version of “Pactomania”: Even when states are united by a shared perception of threats, however, the ultimate value of the partnership depends in part on whether the members agree on a common strategy and are willing...

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Canada Applauds a Waffen-SS Soldier

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In 1985, President Ronald Reagan was attacked for visiting a German military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, because that cemetery included forty graves of members of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the...

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A Revealing Few Days in Ukraine

On Sunday September 3rd, Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky replaced Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov with a 41 year old former lawmaker named Rustam Umerov. Since Russia’s invasion of February 2022 Ukraine’s military and Ministry of Defense have been “dogged by...

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