The dangers of ‘Not our war’
Last year, American Compass founder Oren Cass was being interviewed by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart.
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What if America ‘loses’ the Iran war?
The fact that the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran has not gone to plan is by now patently obvious – most clearly in President Trump’s insistent pleas with European…
Pompous: Europe in a moral quagmire between benefactor US and evil Iran
The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now…
The Hormuz crisis is about much more than oil
The Western public has been conditioned to think of energy crises in terms of petrol prices and heating bills.
A hostile strait is a nautical death trap: Trump gives us the Dardanelles, Part II
Addressing an audience of military veterans in Alexandria, Virginia, last week, US Navy Admiral William Raven, formerly head of the elite Seals special forces unit,…
How the EU policy on ‘stupid’ stability chokes off spending in member states
Italian business and political leaders are calling on EU institutions to take extraordinary measures to address the energy crisis provoked by the war with Iran.
Gender identity: The new compulsory European value
Is the European Court of Justice transforming the EU into a woke club where LGBT ideology, and gender identity in particular, are legally binding, in defiance of…
The Cyprus anomaly: Why is EU soil still under British occupation?
The news from earlier this month has been more than revealing.
‘Rule of law?’ European Commission defies court order
On March 4, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union convened to hear the European Commission's appeal against its own judicial defeat.
Trump’s choice: Go big or go home
As the ramifications of the joint US-Israeli assault on Iran continue to spread, and as the war is already diverging from what clearly seems to have been the attackers’…
Is Peter Magyar panicking? Hungarian opposition suddenly looks shaky
Hungary is probably the only country in Europe where, just over a month before the elections on April 12, the picture might be so unclear, so foggy.
No more Obama-Biden timidity, it is time for America to assert itself again
It’s commonly said that generals always fight the last war.
Russo-Chinese allies disappear: A seismic shift as Trump puts the heat directly on China
It is emerging that the overwhelming US and Israeli defeat of the armed forces and repressive police of the Islamic Republic of Iran is already beginning to alter…
Iran-China vs the West: Who dictates terms to whom?
As the military campaign against the Iranian regime unfolds, the geopolitical landscape is being reshaped by forces far away from the immediate battlefield.
Pacifists, then and now: ‘Uncle Sam in a terrible jam, way down yonder in Vietnam’
Unintended consequence: That is invariably the great pitfall of any government policy, but there is an even greater horror in human affairs, that of the intended…
Europe needs severity: Mass deportations, even re-migration, must occur
On the surface, it would seem that Europe’s establishmentarians are finally waking up.
European political leaders: Old order living on borrowed time
All European leaders have had to adjust their ways of thinking and governing to address American President Donald Trump’s dramatic changes in US policy and its…
The EU sees a world that isn’t there
Twenty-five years ago, Europe stood poised to administer a world where all nations sought peace and prosperity.
German police conduct 13th Day of Action against online ‘hate’
On Wednesday, February 25, German law enforcement carried out a nationwide “Day of Action Against Online Hate” involving raids and interrogations in connection…
Iranian regime “conservative”? Never, the mullahs are like 19th century Bolsheviks
Western pundits love to call the Islamic Republic of Iran “conservative.” This label is lazy, misleading, and fundamentally wrong.
Hungarian elections: The EU’s dangerous wishful thinking
After Poland, Georgia, and Romania, it was clear that the Hungarian elections would be the next testing ground for the EU’s electoral interventionism, with the…
US tradition of respecting European leaders in danger of being squandered
Some readers will recall that last week I posed the question of what sort of an alliance the British government might think it had with United States after denying…
The Iran war will be long, bloody, and ruinous
There can be no doubt of the absolute wickedness and moral depravity of the theocratic totalitarian regime that has had its grip on Iran since 1979.
Warrant or not, the cops are coming: Polish government breaches ban on double jeopardy
In recent months Poland has seen an unprecedented situation.
Israel sizes up its next enemy: Will Turkey become the new Iran?
It should by now be rather clear.
The Great Game of Oil: Why Iran is about leverage not liberation
Within seventy-two hours of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli strike on Iran, Tehran had retaliated across the entire Persian Gulf.
Need more manure for energy but deplore its production? EU left with bullshit
Germany’s ruling coalition may be an awkward marriage of ideological rivals, but it does benefit from the absence of the Greens, who pushed many of the economically…
Behead the Iranian monster, but which head will grow in its place?
The root of debacle ultimately comes from the Latin, baculus, stick, and it derives from the act of removing a stick from a dam, with the debacle being what follows.
The neo-Ottoman shift: Why Turkey no longer looks like a Western pillar
The myth of Turkey as an indispensable bridge between East and West is beginning to give in under the weight of its own contradictions.
Trump trap: Do Democrats despise their own national culture?
On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union Address in American history in his usual style: Approximately one hour and 48 minutes of…