Outside the Beltway

The bad guys are having a bad week.

Not to mention impotence.

Nunes and Grinell.

The move paves the way for Kash Patel or another Trump appointee.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

The Florida governor is among several names being floated to replace Pete Hegseth.

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Another huge blow against Iranian’s regional strategy.

Just lie about it.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

We have crossed Putin’s red line.

Of leopards and faces.

The ludicrous appointments keep coming.

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

Trump’s foreign policy team is taking shape.

It sounds the same in the original Russian.

My concerns about a second Trump administration.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.

Escalation? Russian desperation?

Closing the barn door after the horse has left.

A chilling feature from the Wall Street Journal.

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

A bold reversal of fortunes. For now.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

While foreign policy seldom decides American elections, it really should this year.

The Russian autocrat is emboldened.

Alas, on terms Ukraine can’t possibly accept.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

There is a strong push inside the administration to allow use of US weapons to strike Russia.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

It’s more than competition but less than war.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

Yesterday’s New Jersey speech was something to behold.

An interesting analysis by The Economist.

A minor gaffe is overshadowing a more complicated story.

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.