Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Tag: U.S. President Donald Trump
Jailed in America for Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano says making up crimes where none exist and arresting without investigation — as was the case with Larry Bushart — are crimes in and of themselves.
Trump, Russian Oil & Tomahawk Missiles
M.K. Bhadrakumar considers the possible complications for the U.S. president now that he has assumed the war-monger avatar and is escalating the pressure on Russia.
Trump’s Test in Gaza & Ukraine
Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby, write Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares.
Trump’s Military Occupation of America
Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
NUCLEAR WAR — Diplomacy to Stave Off Annihilation
With the last remaining U.S.-Russia missile treaty expiring in February, Chris Wright calls for diplomacy between the two countries to prevent a massive arms race.
The States & the US Presidency
Trump’s campaign to use federal force to enhance public safety lacks constitutional authority, writes Andrew Napolitano.
Europe’s Final Descent
European elites, who have lived under U.S. shelter throughout the post-war period, are in no way capable of becoming independent. So-called EU strategic autonomy is an empty world. This is a new form of Stockholm Syndrome, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump & the Russophobes
The extent to which Trump’s démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century.
RAY McGOVERN: Applying the Lost Art of Kremlinology
ALASKA SUMMIT: If Moscow wants to avoid its own Vietnam in Ukraine, Putin may accept a “negotiated solution” that applies copious lipstick to the pig of actual defeat for the U.S., NATO and Ukraine.