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And it’s not just the leakers. It’s Biden and his top officials openly speaking of crippling Russia.

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the Cold War era, suc...

“They know this is not a red light,” he said in a virtual discussion Tuesday with the Center for Security Policy. “This is not something that concerns them and they are likely to do just the kind of violence you are seeing today.” Former Vice President Mike Pence said in an op-ed for The National Journal this week that the Trump-Pence administration, in helping foster deals between Israel and some Middle East nations, had created opportunities for peace. “But now, President Biden has sent the world a profoundly different message,” Mr. Pence said. “Instead of seeking peace throug...

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 18, 2021 President Biden has signaled weakness to the key actors in the Middle East, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday, blaming the new administration for helping foment the worst clashes in years between Israel and its Palestinian population. In calling for a “ceasefire,” Mr. Biden was suggesting a “moral equivalence” between the Hamas militants firing rockets into Israeli cities, and the Israeli government’s retaliatory strikes against w...

Like many people, I do not find what is known as the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD to be reassuring. Today, those most fearful seem to be those people that lived through the tumultuous 1960s and the cold war, to others this may come across as "business as usual." What the world would look like following a nuclear war is very murky, yet today it seems many people consider nuclear weapons as just another tool or option for us to use in our defense if we are attacked. The nuclear deterrent we currently hold is a hundred times larger than needed to stop anyone sane or rational f...