War and Foreign Policy

Ryan and Zachary Yost look at some of the ways Trump's foreign policy might actually be a step in the right direction. 

In an outrageous act, lame-duck President Joe Biden gives Ukraine permission to fire US-made missiles into Russia.

If the government’s primary job were, as we’re taught, to protect the lives and property of the American people, then avoiding a nuclear exchange would be its single greatest priority. 

In this review of Scott Horton's book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has waged for the past quarter century in the Middle East have been a disaster. Millions of deaths and a massive refugee crisis later, the unmistakable verdict is in.

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as soldiers in the Confederate army. While the numbers of black Confederate soldiers didn‘t match their northern counterparts, many of them did serve as armed combatants.

While it is often framed in the media as a battle between principled conservatives and an angry, non-ideological movement focused solely on personal loyalty to Trump, the current civil war on the American right is only the latest chapter in a much older story.

On this day 106 years ago, the warring parties of World War I agreed to an armistice, ending more than four years of slaughter in the trenches. As Ludwig von Mises recalled, governments also slaughtered their own currencies to pay for the bloodshed.

The darling of America‘s political elites, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, now touts a “Five-Point Plan” that surely will extend the war and ultimately make his country even worse off. It is time to end this farce.

Anthony Blinken‘s term as US Secretary of State will be ending, although not soon enough. 

Is it possible that the Anglo-led hatred of Russia in the nineteenth century had the effect of turning Russia away from the West, making the Russian soil more fertile for anti-liberal ideas like Bolshevism?