The world has radically changed, but, as 50 years ago during the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s best friends are teaching it how to live and fight, demanding a cessation of military operations against Palestinian terrorists, and setting deadlines and conditions. Military and civilian experts debate when the war will end; forecasts range from never to a New Year’s agreement, which will be violated like all previous ones.

“Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”

People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong.
The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: “Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.” — Col. John R. Boyd, U.S. Air Force

In this enlightening conversation between Judge Napolitano and John Mearsheimer they delve into the critical issues of Gaza and Ukraine. Professor Mearsheimer brings his expertise to shed light on the profound consequences of these conflicts and their ripple effects on the world stage.

(Bloomberg) — Three moments point to a slow disentanglement from Ukraine by its closest allies.

After the collapse of the U.S.S.R. many Ukrainians, including members of the Rada, had a new agenda, writes Edward Lozansky. But Washington wasn’t interested.

Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both governments, and how activists should approach it all. At the time, Cold War hostility was rampant.

There is currently a growing number among the far left in America calling for the downfall of Capitalism – to be replaced by Socialism. It is a movement that began in earnest with the Bernie Sanders campaign for the presidency – Sanders being a moderate Socialist from very liberal Vermont. This movement has now expanded to include hard-core socialists and communists many of whom believe in the real need for revolution. Not surprisingly these radicals share a special fondness for the Soviet Union as a model of successful communism. They are well-intentioned people, but they do not know the real history of the USSR because they are not fully informed. Focusing almost entirely on the positive aspects of Soviet life they are ideologues or “true-believers”.

In light of the recent and not unexpected announcement by Russia’s Vladimir Putin that he will once again seek the presidency in 2024, ACURA is publishing a transcript of a wide-ranging address Putin delivered to the World Russian People’s Council on November 28. The topic of the forum was the ‘Present and Future of the Russian World.’

Well-heeled and highly credentialed, the proteges of powerful political patrons with ties to New Haven, Cambridge, Oxbridge and corporate America occupy the highest councils of government and advise a sitting US president who, while blessed with long experience as a US Senator, hails from rather less-exalted circumstances than his own advisers. These advisers, with their degrees and pedigrees, stir within their chief a toxic combination of envy, resentment and insecurity which manifests itself through occasional outbursts of bad temper.