Amb. John Bolton – Tensions with North Korea and Russia-Ukraine war still grinding on
May 22, 2022This Interview first appeared on Cats Roundtable on May 22nd 2022. Click here to hear the original interview.
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Twilight of Turkish Democracy
April 22, 2022This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on April 22nd 2022. Click here to view the original article. Turkish democracy has reached a turning point. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s two-decade strongman rule has reversed his country’s progress toward a liberal society. On April 6, the Turkish President secured the passing of new electoral laws that will […]
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DETERRENCE, UKRAINE, AND TAIWAN
March 29, 2022This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on March 29th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. President Joe Biden has again befuddled America and its allies. Biden not only advocated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s removal from power — until, that is, administration aides quickly “clarified” that he wasn’t doing so. No, there’s more. […]
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Entente Multiplies the Threat From Russia and China
March 01, 2022This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on February 15th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. It’s been more than 75 years since the U.S. last faced an axis of strategic threats. Fortunately, that axis proved dysfunctional. Had it been otherwise, Japan and Germany would have systematically attacked the Soviet Union, not […]
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Broken Biden sank the West’s efforts to stop Putin invading Ukraine
February 28, 2022This article appeared in The Daily Telegraph on February 28th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. President Joe Biden has explained why he failed to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He admitted that he had no idea what he was doing. For months, Nato members and other governments thought they were working to […]
READ MORE.Gradual Sanctions Against Russia are a Loser
February 27, 2022This article appeared in The New York Post on February 27th, 2022. Click here to view the original article. The Biden Administration has been explicit that it is pursuing a strategy of “graduated escalation” in imposing sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine. This approach is virtually certain to be less effective in imposing economic hardship […]
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How China uses the UN and WHO for its own nefarious ends
December 14, 2021This article appeared in the New York Post on December 13, 2021. Click here to view the original article. One unforeseen consequence of the pandemic was seeing the World Health Organization perform like China’s puppet. WHO’s ponderous bureaucracy repeatedly accepted Beijing’s version of the pandemic’s origins; yielded to crippling restrictions on independent epidemiological experts trying to assess the virus, and resisted […]
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Congress must not let Biden bungle nuclear posture review
November 22, 2021This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on November 22, 2021. Click here to view the original article. The Biden Administration’s ongoing Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is extraordinarily consequential. Unlike previous NPRs, which assessed a bipolar Moscow-Washington contest, the 2021 edition must establish nuclear doctrine to confront Beijing’s rising threat and increasingly dangerous Iranian and […]
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Biden Has a Summit With Xi, but No Strategy for China
November 19, 2021Beijing’s arms buildup and menacing of Taiwan make U.S. directionlessness dangerous for the world. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on November 17, 2021. Click here to view the original article. America has no China strategy 10 months after President Biden’s inauguration. Monday’s Zoom meeting between Mr. Biden and Xi Jinping only highlighted […]
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India’s S-400 missile system problem
November 10, 2021This article appeared in The Hill on November 10, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton November 10, 2021 India’s nearly completed, $5.43 billion purchase of Russian S-400 air-defense systems raises serious obstacles to closer politico-military relations between Washington and New Delhi. It requires rigorous strategic thinking to avoid hampering deeper […]
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