Outside the Beltway

The United States is apparently looking to Libya as a guide for upcoming talks with North Korea. The DPRK most likely sees the fate of that nation and its leader as a warning.

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

Membership has its privileges.

President Trump took to Twitter this morning and decided poke a stick in the eye of the Russian bear.

As expected, Russia has retaliated for the retaliation against it in connection with the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom.

To nobody’s surprise, Vladimir Putin has won re-election to another term as Russia’s President.

Not unexpectedly, Russia has retaliated for Great Britain’s retaliation for Russia’s apparent assassination attempt on British history.

Poland’s new Holocaust legislation just keeps sounding worse and worse.

Expecting North Korea to agree to diplomatic talks that are aimed at getting rid of their nuclear weapons is asking for the impossible, and ensuring there will be no progress on the diplomatic front for the foreseeable future.

My latest for RealClearDefense.

Poland’s President has signed a controversial bill that purports to criminalize any effort to tie Poland to the Holocaust.

The Polish Government appears ready to approve a law that seeks to whitewash the truth about the role that many Poles played in the Holocaust.

Vladimir Putin will easily win re-election, but some are beginning to wonder who or what comes after him.

Yesterday was the seventy-sixth anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. For most Americans, though, it was just another day. That’s only natural.

Roy Moore wishes he was back in the days of cotton when families were close and African-Americans were enslaved.

Russia has been barred from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics after an investigation uncovered extensive evidence of cheating.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Is it time to reexamine Presidential authority to launch a nuclear strike?

Donald Trump continues to be as astoundingly ignorant about the most powerful weapons the U.S. military possesses as he was as a candidate.

Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov helped to prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.

At some point, it will be time to move on.

Donald Trump Jr. spoke yesterday with Senate investigators, and his answers raise more questions than they answer.

Another Trump lie.

New reports of Trump’s business ties to Russia are raising eyebrows.

President Trump’s Afghanistan policy sounds awfully familiar, and it’s likely to lead to the same results.

Donald Trump kowtows to Vladimir Putin yet again.

Vice-President Pence is advocating the admission of Georgia into NATO. That would be a bad idea.

President Trump is reportedly considering at least partly reversing one of the great foreign policy successes of the Obama Presidency.

A legendary statesman has passed.

Everywhere one turns, it seems, there’s Russia.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

It’s been a bad week for U.S.-Russian relations.

An apparent terrorist attack in Russia’s second largest city.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

Malaysian police have evidence that seems to clearly link North Korea to the death of Kim Jong Il’s eldest son.

Godspeed, John Glenn.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

To the surprise of many, Russia’s President announced that Russia would begin winding down its six month old intervention in Syria.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Some analysts are already suggesting that Russia’s two month old intervention in Syria is becoming a quagmire. That seems to be a premature judgment, but it’s not accomplishing much more than anything the West is doing.