Outside the Beltway

A play in three acts.

The options are not good.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Also, this Just In: WWII Was 80 Years Ago

The flailing president.

No significant U.S. war aims were achieved.

There’s still no strategy.

That’s not how any of this works.

Apparently, not the president or his “leadership council.”

Now we know why it started when it did.

Western intelligence services are sounding the alarm.

The question mark is for the peak, not for the cowardice.

The seemingly inevitable next step.

The preliminary DIA assessment has been leaked.

Is that really a good idea?

This phase seems to be over. [Or maybe not!]

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

The saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia continues to underscore the immoral nature of this presidency and its power goals.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

MAGAing America edition.

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.