Fifty years ago this month, President Richard Nixon went to Communist China. The object was what his successors of both parties have done ever since – namely, seeking China’s assistance with some American priority or another, from countering the Soviet threat to help in ending the Vietnam war to opening markets to mitigating climate change.…
“Decapitation” is graphic way of describing the evident object of Vladimir Putin’s intensifying invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, if this despot can get away with not only eliminating an elected government in one of Russia’s neighbors, but presumably installing one to his liking there, other enemies of freedom will surely be emboldened to do the same.…
Overnight, Vladimir Putin went to full-on war in Ukraine. The Russian dictator is appears set on nothing less than the conquest of that neighboring nation, demilitarizing it, changing its government and dominating it henceforth in a manner reminiscent of the Kremlin’s previous enslavement of Ukrainians and others during the Russian empire and its Soviet counterpart.…
On February 11th, I asked in this space, “What is Vladimir Putin thinking?” Now we know. After the Russian dictator invaded eastern Ukraine earlier this week, he’s channeling another tyrant’s calculations of nearly nine decades ago. Similarities between Adolf Hitler’s actions and Putin’s recent conduct are striking. An Anschluss like the Nazis’ uncontested occupation of…
So it begins. As predicted in this space, now that China’s Genocide Games are complete, Vladimir Putin has launched his long-planned invasion of Ukraine. It turns out not to be a “minor incursion.” Rather, the Russian dictator has – clearly by pre-arrangement – recognized the independence of two Ukrainian provinces in the Donbass region and…
One of the most worrisome consequences of the Chinese Communist Party’s virus and the pandemic that has flowed from it is this chilling fact: The pandemic that appears to have emanated from a CCP bioweapons laboratory in Wuhan, China is having a devastating impact on our military personnel. That’s in part due to the disease…
A revered friend of mine has just survived the latest of myriad surgeries as part of many months of desperate attempts to save his life. To protect his privacy, let’s call him “Tim.” Tim is one of the most brilliant national security practitioners of his generation. He’s a distinguished veteran of combat overseas and the…
The much-ballyhooed Russian invasion of Ukraine hasn’t happened yet, thank God. For the moment, this must be considered a stay-of-execution for the Ukrainians, not a commutation of sentence. But it always seemed more likely that Vladimir Putin would wait to impose his brand of totalitarianism on them until after his ally, Xi Jinping, finishes the…
Special Prosecutor John Durham’s long-running investigation of apparent criminal activities involving former government officials opposed to Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy in 2016 and subsequent presidency has apparently hit pay-dirt. In a court filing on Friday, Mr. Durham formally alleged that Hillary Clinton’s campaign staff engaged tech workers to penetrate the computer systems of not…
Team Biden says Russia will initiate its latest invasion of Ukraine tomorrow. The good news is that’s probably not true. The bad news is that, by pre-arrangement with China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, the one misruling Russia, Vladimir Putin, will likely launch that attack next week, once the Genocide Games in Beijing wrap up. It is…
“What is Vladimir Putin thinking?” That question is on many minds around the world, including notably in Ukraine, the nation facing the prospect of imminent invasion by the army and naval forces the Russian leader now has encircling it. Ditto the Western civilian and military officials feverishly consulting about this crisis. Whatever Putin is planning…
Closing the Ring was the title Winston Churchill gave to his epic account of the Allies’ success in encircling and tightening the noose on Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. That set the stage for the decisive invasions in Normandy and the East that liberated half of Europe, and for decades enslaved the rest under Soviet communist…
Eileen Gu is the human TikTok. Like the addictive video-sharing app used by the Chinese Communist Party to seduce and mine worldwide billions of people’s data, the beautiful American skier who has won a gold medal for China during Winter Olympics underway in Beijing personifies the CCP’s efforts to induce submission to its inexorable global…
Last week, in a searing, hour-long interview, a serving, combat veteran Marine officer identified only as “Paul” told me about the destruction that is being inflicted upon our military by Biden’s Covid-19 vaccination mandates, ideological purges and other policies. The resulting, enduring damage to the armed forces has become even more obvious with the revelation…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned American Olympians last week not to anger the “ruthless” Chinese Communist regime. Those inside the Genocide Games’ totalitarian bubble surely needed no reminder that they are competing in a monstrous police state – and, thereby, legitimating it. Rather, Mrs. Pelosi seems to be trying to impress on the rest of…
In a triumph for tyranny, the world’s nations will be honoring and legitimating today the genocidal Chinese Communist Party. No good can come of the Genocide Games in Beijing. Not since 1936, when Adolf Hitler hosted the Summer Olympics in the Third Reich’s Berlin, has the so-called “international community” provided a bigger propaganda windfall for…
The weather is awful in much of the country at the moment. In Texas, it is also an ominous reminder of a “perfect storm” that took down that state’s electric grid a year ago, costing many lives and over $100 billion in other damage. Hopefully, such a disaster is not in the offing now. But…
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounded an urgent alarm yesterday at the Reagan Library. He warned that Communist China is, well, eating our lunch. Thanks to the CCP’s systematic espionage, cyberwarfare, intellectual property theft and active subversion, there is, in Director Wray’s words, “No country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and…
Remarkably, as Black History Month gets underway, the man who is arguably the most powerful black American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas – having served with distinction in that role for thirty years – is being aggressively denigrated by the left. Its operatives transparently seek to discredit and otherwise diminish a man for being a…
We lost two Great Americans last weekend. Their deaths would have been mourned at any time, but especially so in this perilous moment. The first was a storied military leader, one-hundred-year-old Army Major General John Singlaub, Jack was a Special Forces warrior who performed extraordinary feats as a member of the Office of Strategic Services…