The Musing of an American Cassandra
It borders on the unbelievable that the collective memory of Europe and the national memories of individual states are so short. Only twenty eight years after the end of the…
Hungary’s Sick Constitutional Order: The Time of the Political Gangsters
International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on December 9, to fight and raise awareness of corruption across the globe. In Hungary, the one party rule between 1948 and 1990, established…
Trump must rebuff Russian influence in Bulgaria, a key NATO and US ally
Recent developments in Turkey and Russia have raised the strategic importance of the Republic of Bulgaria for the United States, NATO and the EU. This past summer, NATO staged major…
Trump’s New National-Security Strategy Projects Confidence
by Jerry Hendrix • National Review President Trump today unveiled his new National Security Strategy (NSS), exceeding the expectations of the national-security community by producing a remarkably coherent NSS within…
Tillerson’s ‘No Preconditions’ For North Korea Means Things Are Worse Than We Thought
by Megan G. Opera • The Federalist U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sent shockwaves through the foreign policy establishment this week when he suggested that the United States is…
American Diplomat: US Looks to Counter Iran in Post-War Iraq
by Susannah George • Military.com BAGHDAD — As Iraq emerges from three years of war with the Islamic State group, the U.S. is looking to roll back the influence of…
Open Letter to Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I write this letter, because I care about the past, the present, and the future of the country in which I was born and grew up.…
Here Are The Real Reasons Syria Decided To Sign The Paris Climate Deal
By Megan G. Oprea • The Federalist It’s all over the news: Syria has joined the Paris climate agreement, leaving the United States as the only country in the world…
Iran Displays Missile, Calls Trump ‘Crazy’ in Marking 1979 U.S. Embassy Takeover
By Babak Dehghanpisheh • Reuters Iran put a ballistic missile on display as thousands marched on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy, with…
Obama’s So-Called Foreign Policy
The Obama campaign’s insistence in early July 2008, to have the then first term Senator to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was the harbinger of what…
Iran on Pathway to Fully Restart Nuclear Weapons Program
By Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon Iran is on the pathway to fully restarting its contested nuclear weapons program due to insufficient international inspections of its military sites and caveats…
The Conservative Politics of the Iran Deal
By Matthew RJ Brodsky • National Review Online Republicans have more or less coalesced into two primary political camps regarding the nuclear deal with Iran. Call them “the Fixers” and…
The Spectacular Rise and the Meteoric Fall from Grace of a European Banker: The Tzvetan Vassilev Phenomenon
Without exception, the history of the last quarter century of Central and Eastern Europe has again furnished the clearest and most convincing proof of the well established view that…
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Frontiers of Freedom at the Conservative Leadership Conference
Frontiers of Freedom will be at the 2017 Conservative Leadership Conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 16th. At the Conservative Leadership Conference, we will be presenting a panel discussion…
Unilateral Disarmament is Dangerous — in Both a National Security Context and as Economic Policy
The news is replete of reports of Russia developing new missile systems, escalating a war in Ukraine, selling missile technology to Iran, and intercepting US jets in provocative ways. In…