Outside the Beltway

America is getting screwed by playing by the rules it created.

Insights into Trump’s worldview.

It’s still murky but already quite different from the Trump 45 administration’s.

Russia, Russia, Russia?

Applying rational analysis to attitude and instinct.

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

Trump is spouting Russian talking points.

An embarrasing day in US history.

A shocking but completely unsurprising development.

Countering Russian (and now American) propaganda.

Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded.

Really, a older, more imperialistic one.

The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is not doing its job.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

Making Russia happy again.

Our premier intelligence agency will focus on the Western hemisphere.

Thoughts on an unnecessary confrontation.

Going out on another unforced error

Greenland, Canada, and Panama. Oh my.

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.

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

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.