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Francis P. Sempa
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August 11, 2023
Maybe empires aren't so bad?They're not so great, either, but democracy is not exactly distinguishing itself lately.
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January 24, 2023
Virtue-signaling tennis networks erase players' flagsApparently, Russian and Belarusian tennis players are to be without a country.
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October 29, 2022
America’s Strategy in World PoliticsGeopolitical equilibrium in the form of a politically-divided Eurasian landmass remains essential to American security.
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September 27, 2022
'Trump is Hitler' rears its ugly head againKen Burns, the famous historian and documentarian, has disgraced himself.
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September 20, 2022
Democrats have got to stop using James TaylorOnce is unfortunate. Twice is an embarrassment.
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August 31, 2022
Progressives and the new great power rivalryProgressives abhor wielding U.S. power on behalf of concrete national security interests, but wish to shape the international system toward democracy and human rights.
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August 26, 2022
The Man Who Won the WarCurtis LeMay did what he had to do to defeat Japan in World War II.
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August 26, 2022
George Weigel attacks an America First foreign policyConflict in Ukraine causes war-mongers to scorn those advocating for American discipline.
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August 10, 2022
What Joe McCarthy got rightAn opinion piece in the Washington Times goes too far in its efforts to disown Joe McCarthy, the much-maligned anti-communist senator from Wisconsin.
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August 10, 2022
It’s Time for a 21st Century NSC-68It is time to dust off the strategic maps of the early 1950s and place them on the walls of Pentagon and State Department offices.
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August 2, 2022
Americans who don't know their geography can't understand the Ukraine warAmericans need to "put maps and encyclopedias back on their tables" to understand the "central geographic reality" of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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July 30, 2022
How about some international restraint on Ukraine?Maybe it's time America stopped going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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July 27, 2022
Condoleezza Rice joins the Old Guard in denial about RussiaIt is the three immediate post–Cold War administrations that sowed the seeds of America's relative decline.
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July 26, 2022
Codevilla's last words on America's Asia-Pacific policyThe Carter administration draws a good deal of fire from the last book to come from the brilliant mind of Angelo Codevilla.
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July 21, 2022
Is détente with China a good idea?Détente can be a good thing. But if it's practiced the wrong way, it can lead to disaster. Which would Joe Biden do?
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July 14, 2022
An academic tells us the 'safe' way to escalate the Ukraine WarWhat vital national security interest of the United States is at stake in Ukraine that is worth even the slight risk of a wider war?
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July 13, 2022
The key to understanding our ruling elitesThere are only two classes in society: those who rule and those who are ruled. Which class are you in?
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July 11, 2022
Henry Kissinger on leadershipHenry Kissinger discusses the challenges that the Infowave presents to future leaders.
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July 10, 2022
'I told you so': MacArthur called it 70 years agoWe should have listened to the farsighted "old soldier" back then.
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July 7, 2022
Can Liz Cheney really escape the shadow of her father?Wyoming congresswoman Elizabeth Cheney has become the darling of Democrats and their anti-Trump media allies. How will it work out for her?
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July 5, 2022
Charles Kupchan is half-right in his call for geopolitical realpolitikThe United States and many in the West were beguiled into believing that great power rivalry had ended with the end of the Cold War.
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June 30, 2022
The 'rules-based international order' is a mythAnd as long as America keeps defending this myth with our citizens' blood and treasure, America will continue to decline.
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June 29, 2022
It looks as though the war is widening in UkraineAnd this portends disaster for the United States and our interests.
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June 28, 2022
Anchors away...or should I say, 'Pronouns away'?Just look at what an embarrassment the Navy has become.
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June 26, 2022
Conservatives need to stop supporting people who hate themLook how much hatred your favorite celebrities and companies harbor for you in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson.
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June 25, 2022
The 'raw judicial power' that overturning Roe v. Wade fixed"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," Justice Alito wrote for the majority. "Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision had damaging consequences."
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June 24, 2022
'The US has undone all that Nixon accomplished'Say what you will about Nixon, but he knew how to exploit the differences between China and Russia.
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June 21, 2022
The war in Ukraine and 'the follies of the victors'Exposing the "follies of the victors" does not excuse his Russian aggression and crimes.
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June 20, 2022
Edward Luttwak's take on UkraineLuttwak's mind and grasp of strategic and military realities are as sharp as ever.
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June 19, 2022
The N.Y. Times’ Bret Stephens fails Geopolitics 101Someone at the editorial page desk at the Times should ask Stephens a few questions.
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June 18, 2022
The rise and fall of the American empireHave we become like a decadent ancient Rome, ripe for conquering by invading hordes?
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June 13, 2022
The U.S. Needs the Mature Realism of Walter LippmannWith America at risk from both China’s bid for global dominance and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, leftist political “idealism” is very dangerous.
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June 5, 2022
Thomas Friedman and World War IIITo listen to the New York Times resident foreign policy hysteric...er, guru, it’s 1941 all over again.
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June 3, 2022
Bret Stephens Says Biden Should Channel Truman on China-Taiwan – Really?Theodore Roosevelt would be a better statesman to emulate.
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June 2, 2022
Why does Biden keep on poking the Russian bear?The latest back-and-forth on the USA arming Ukraine is a real doozy.
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June 1, 2022
Time for Strategic Clarity on TaiwanThe Biden administration’s approach to the issue of Taiwan and China is clouded in confusion.
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May 31, 2022
George Will on Biden's 'achievement'Will stumbles over himself in his eagerness to praise Biden.
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May 29, 2022
The war on police meets the Uvalde shootingWhat effect did years of anti-police rhetoric and actions by prominent leftists have on the reluctance of the police to quickly storm the classrooms?
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May 26, 2022
Kissinger at DavosHenry Kissinger at the age of 98 still understands how the world works better than most of his fellow global elites.
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May 25, 2022
Repeating Jimmy Carter's mistakes in the nuclear arms raceRussia and China build, build, build, while the U.S. postures and virtue-signals.
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May 24, 2022
Bari Weiss notices that the elites have turned against AmericaWhen a former New York Times editor is disillusioned with both parties — meaning with Democrats — you know there's change in the air.
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May 20, 2022
Should George W. Bush go down in history as one of our worst presidents?Looking back, he has more in common with Woodrow Wilson than any conservative Republican.
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May 19, 2022
What Would America's Two Greatest Statesmen Think of NATO?How do George Washington's and John Quincy Adams's opinions on foreign relations square with Joe Biden's?
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May 12, 2022
Is Britain making a mistake about Finland and Sweden?It is anticipated that the British agreements with Sweden and Finland are a preliminary step on the road to NATO membership for both countries.
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May 12, 2022
The return of Vindman, clamoring to start World War IIIGod help us if the Biden administration follows Vindman's advice.
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May 10, 2022
Heroes and villains in AbortionlandThe juxtaposition of recent news stories about Mother Teresa, the Catholic saint, and Dr. Robert D. Spencer, an abortionist from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, could not be more revealing about the pro-abortion movement and its media allies.
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May 7, 2022
George Bush needs to get a grip and stop Churchill-izing ZelenskyOne would think after that the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush would be a little more humble when he talks about war.
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May 6, 2022
Paul Krugman needs a history lesson on Russia and UkraineTurns out economists sometimes don't know much about history.
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May 2, 2022
Pelosi commits the United States to Ukraine's victoryDrawing any country into a wider war, as an old tsarist statesman once said, is "madness."
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April 27, 2022
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a Geopolitical OffensiveThe Chinese Communist Party wants us to believe that it has no hegemonic ambitions and that its BRI is just another multilateral advance for mankind.
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April 22, 2022
Putin is not Hitler, Zelensky is not Churchill, and Biden is not FDR.Enough with the bad World War II parallels.
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April 20, 2022
World War Three? Worry more about World War OneEverything old is new again, and not in a good way.
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April 15, 2022
The Slow, Agonizing Death of NeoconservatismIt's a movement in search of a party...and the oxygen is running low.
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April 14, 2022
How about we fight just one Cold War at a time?Even one globalist is getting a little nervous about Biden flirting with war in Ukraine.
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April 12, 2022
New York Times plays favorites with its evil autocratsMurderous Putin has got to go, insists Thomas Friedman, but murderous Xi Jinping is just fine.
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April 10, 2022
Bill Clinton's supreme NATO screw-up comes back to haunt usAnd Clinton is now trying to cover for himself by publishing an article in a prestigious magazine.
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April 9, 2022
National Review's Kevin Williamson redefines conservatism...and how he longs for the palmy days of George W. Bush.
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April 5, 2022
Are we sure US politicians want to end the war in Ukraine?Because it looks a lot more as though America and the Western world are more interested in a world crisis for 2022.
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April 1, 2022
No more American crusades, pleaseBefore we go stomping into Ukraine, let's review how well this sort of thing has worked for us in the recent past.
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March 28, 2022
Mike Pence's 'Berlin Airlift'America's would-be political leaders need to be more careful with their words and their policy proposals.
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March 21, 2022
Zelensky suspends media and opposition partiesThe exigencies of war impel democratic governments to impose undemocratic measures in the name of defending democracy.
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March 18, 2022
Anti-Trump National Review has forgotten Buckley's ruleThe magazine's founder came up with a system that should have National Review supporting Trump.
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March 17, 2022
Joe Biden's crash-and-burn foreign policy exposedA new Wall Street Journal article pronounces the Biden administration's great power diplomacy an unmitigated failure.
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March 16, 2022
Questioning the Ukraine war does not make you a 'Putin apologist'There is nothing "nonsensical" about questioning the wisdom of NATO expansion or suggesting NATO could have been more prudent.
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March 14, 2022
'This is what happens when you poke the bear'The great danger to world peace now is that a jingoistic Western media and reckless Western statesmen playing at being Winston Churchill will compound Putin's miscalculation.
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March 9, 2022
National Review stands athwart history and yells...and nobody listensKevin Williamson's estimation of Fox News viewers resembles Hillary Clinton's description of populist conservatives as "deplorables."
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March 9, 2022
Will China act as mediator between Russia and Ukraine?Autocracy has pushed back, and the Ukrainian people are paying the price.
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March 7, 2022
Trump impeachment witness calls for 'Lend-Lease' to UkraineAlexander Vindman is just the latest member of the foreign policy establishment to urge the United States to effectively become a belligerent in the current Russia-Ukraine War.
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March 3, 2022
How Mississippi could cause World War IIISen. Roger Wicker needs to be booted off the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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March 2, 2022
Meet the man who predicted the Ukraine war 30 years agoThis war would have been entirely preventable if only Europeans and Americans had heeded the warnings of George F. Kennan.
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February 26, 2022
The new gangster pactToday, the United States is faced with two aggressive autocratic Eurasian powers — Putin's Russia and President Xi's China.
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February 23, 2022
Laurence Tribe revives the Alien and Sedition Acts...and then retreatsThe road to tyranny is paved by a famous Harvard Law professor emeritus.
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February 22, 2022
Roger Wicker plays dominoesMississippi GOP senator Roger Wicker is at it again, urging the Biden administration to "protect our democratic friends" in Ukraine and invoking the domino theory.
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November 17, 2021
Biden administration letting America's nuclear superiority slip through our fingersThis doesn't bode well as China and Russia aggressively bulk up their nuclear arsenals.
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October 22, 2021
Acclaimed Chinese war propaganda film bodes ill for US relationsRecent CCP films are emphasizing war against the United States.
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October 12, 2021
Mahan and the Problem of ChinaThe great American naval strategist foresaw the challenge of an aggressive China over a century ago.
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September 30, 2021
When leftists start defending the military leadership......something is rotten at the top.
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September 22, 2021
Repeal the 17th AmendmentRepeal of the 17th Amendment would return us to the structure of federalism devised by the Founders to limit federal power and preserve our liberty.
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September 15, 2021
An Eerie Warning from Hans MorgenthauPolitics in America today includes a dangerous collusion between scientists, big tech/social media oligarchs, and the federal government that promote their version of the “truth.”
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August 20, 2021
Afghanistan was a failure of our elitesSome media stories have noted the eerie parallels of our ignominious withdrawals from Saigon and Kabul. But the more fundamental parallel is the failure of our elites.
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July 30, 2021
Geopolitics And An Asian PopeThere are lessons to be learned from Pope John Paul II’s enormously consequential papacy.
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July 25, 2021
James Burnham: An Original American ThinkerYoung conservatives need to acquaint themselves with the thinking of this 20th-century intellectual giant.
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July 17, 2021
Is Democracy Worth It?Or are we just deluded into cherishing the "ridiculous privilege of choosing from time to time a new set of masters"?