MBS White House, Venezuela-Epstein, China-Japan

Trump rightly fetes Mohammed bin Salman at White House

Do Epstein files make Venezuela military action likelier?

From Friday...

Why China remains incandescent about Japan PM's comments on Taiwan

Ford carrier-Venezuela, Starmer troubles, China beheading threat

Aircraft carrier enables bad Venezuela decapitation option

Keir Starmer waltzes into a winter of discontent

from Wednesday...

China's self-defeating Japan beheading threat

Sharaa/Trump, South Korea/Sino-Russian, Russia v. Pokrovsk

Trump holds a positive meeting with Syria's Sharaa, but key questions remain

from last week...

Trump should be wary of South Korea's Sino-Russian courting

What Russia's desperate struggle to envelop Pokrovsk tells us

A House of Dynamite

 A House of Dynamite gets a lot wrong. A lot

Nick Fuentes

Nick Fuentes can't be cancelled, he must be conquered via debate

Trump military

 Trump's middling effort to strengthen the military

101st Air Assault, Orban, Putin

101st Air Assault division withdrawal from Romania doesn't weaken NATO

from Tuesday

Why does Donald Trump tolerate Viktor Orban's many insults

from Monday

Putin attempts to blackmail Trump with new nuclear weapons test

State Dept. waste, Trump Ukraine, UFOs

 State Department justifies extravagant trip with 'classified' excuse

Trump should adopt his Gaza strategy to end the Ukraine war

from Wednesday

Studies suggest UFOs photographed in orbit prior to Space Age

Europa League

Aston Villa should face Europa League suspension if Israel fans blocked

D.C. vs Empower

 Uber-bought DC government seeks to eliminate cheaper Empower rival

Hegseth press rules, Israel-Hamas phase two, Russia fuel shortages

Pete Hegseth's swamptastic Pentagon press rules

Phase two of Israel-Hamas deal requires Trump's patient fortitude 

Under Ukraine drone pressure, Russia fuel shortages spread

Trump vs. cartels, UK China spies

 Trump is justified in striking the cartels

UK saves China by refusing to admit China's threat

Trump-Netanyahu, Venezuela, Manchester attack

Trump's absurd Qatar security guarantee: a predictable result of Netanyahu's folly

from Thursday...

U.S. deployments near Venezuela portend seizure operations

Manchester attack underlines Europe's antisemitic terrorism challenge

Trump Gaza plan

 Trump's ambitious Gaza peace plan is fraught with complexity

Hamas

 Hamas has suffered losses but has otherwise ridden the antisemitic whirlwind

ICE-Gestapo

 Three specific reasons to stop comparing ICE to the Gestapo

Deep state

 Deconstruct the 'deep state.' Don't become it

Poland red line

 With Trump's support, Poland draws a red line in the sky for Putin

Pentagon press crackdown

 Pentagon press crackdown is a step towards state media

Europe v. Russia, Jimmy Lai, Charlie Kirk copycats

 Sorry, Europe is still very weak on Russia

Trump's UK state visit offers new chance to push for Jimmy Lai release

The concern over Charlie Kirk copycat assassins

Trump-European arms buys, Charlie Kirk countersniper, UK immigration crisis

Trump deserves credit for NATO defense spending, and criticism for Europe arms domestication

from Thursday

Charlie Kirk assassination crystalizes countersniper challenge

from Wednesday

Is Immigration policy bringing Britain to the brink?

Israel strike

Israel's Qatar strike has embarrassed Trump

China parade

 China-Russia-North Korea partnership isn't a military alliance

Russian economy, Putin Kyiv strikes

Russian prime minister admits economy in big trouble

from Thursday

Putin tests Trump and Europe-US relations with Kyiv strikes

Navy-Venezuela

 Decoding Trump's U.S. Navy buildup towards Venezuela

Trump flag desecration

 Trump's flag desecration order would make Europe proud

John Bolton raid, CJNG cartel, Waltz UN

John Bolton FBI raid raises serious questions that need answering 

Cartel rising in Mexico: CJNG undermines Sheinbaum government and Mexican sovereignty

Trump's UN ambassador nominee needs a Senate vote

Ukraine latest

As Putin prevaricates, details of Ukraine peace proposal emerge

Will Trump keep letting Putin play him for time?

from Monday-

Five things the Europeans are asking of Trump on Ukraine

Putin-Trump

Putin appears to earn yet another Trump reprieve

Israel E1

 Trump puts Israeli fanatic before US interests

Trump-Putin meeting x2

Trump shouldn't bite on Putin's poisoned North Korea lure

Putin will attempt to play Trump in Alaska

China-Philippines, DC crime

Escalating China-Philippines tensions underlined by China collision. Chinese commanders are engaged in increasingly aggressive maneuvers in the South China Sea.

D.C. crime challenge is real and needs real solutions. Federal control is one positive reform but other actions are also needed.

India tariffs, Israel offensive

Trump right to tariff India over Russia war support. India cannot keep having American cake and eating U.S. interests. 

Israel's new Gaza offensive must center on ground forces, not air power. The costs to Gazan civilians and to U.S. diplomatic standing from a new air campaign would be too great.

Trump nukes

 Trump bolsters military's nuclear readiness to deter Russia

Trump-Netanyahu

 Is Trump losing patience with Netanyahu?

Israel/Gaza, Elbridge Colby

Israel has only bad options in Gaza

from las week

Allied attacks on Elbridge Colby miss the mark

State Department waste

 State Department security agency splurges $200K on Sydney junket

Russia/Trump, UFO reporting, Iran

Why the Kremlin has delegated state media to respond to Trump's rejoinder

UFO reporting is caught between excess sensationalism and excess skepticism

from Sunday...

Two reasons the U.S. and Iran look set to fight again

UK welfare failure

 U.K. government roils as weakening government cancels spending cuts

Air defense munitions

 America's urgent air defense munitions crisis

Israel-Iran conflict

 Israel-Iran war will bring military and terrorism challenges for U.S.

Israel-Iran, CJNG

 Is Israel going to bomb Iran or is it just buffering Trump's diplomacy?

What happens when the Jalisco New Generation Cartel starts killing Americans?

China drone threat, Trump-Putin call, NCIS review, Macron-China

 Ukraine drone attacks offer a China warning for the U.S.

Trump prostrates before Putin's threat of new war crimes

from Tuesday:

NCIS launches internal review following Navy Secretary security incident

from Monday:

Emmanuel Macron slightly turns up the heat on China

CPAC Hungary, West Bank

 CPAC Hungary: the age of Chinese Communist collaborators is here

Israeli settlement expansions in West Bank undermine US interests

NATO spending,

 NATO's troubling new addiction to defense spending gimmicks

Rubio NSC

 Rubio's callous national security cull

Iran terrorism, Golden Dome, Trump-Europe, Trump-Putin, Comey

Will Iran kill nuclear negotiations with terrorist attacks in the West?

Trump's Golden Dome is big gamble but may bring big rewards

Trump plays good cop, Europe plays bad cop with Russia and Israel

from Monday

Putin plays Trump for an idiot with continuing ceasefire prevarication

from last Friday

James Comey puts fidelity to profits before fidelity to FBI and country

Gaza-Jordan, GOP-SALT

 Jordan saves children in Gaza while others protest for show

Republicans should let the "One, big, beautiful bill" die on SALT hill

Arabs and Israel, Putin Istanbul

Why Trump is boosting Saudi Arabia and sidelining Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump values the Arabs' financial relationships and deference over Netanyahu's arrogance.

Why I believe Putin will go to Istanbul. Putin wants to avoid new U.S. sanctions and Trump's ire. He will likely fear that failing to attend may lead to a breaking point against him.

POTUS and Putin

Guest Wall Street Journal op-ed

Trump isn't the first president Putin has played. Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden were all played by Putin also.