“America’s national interest requires Ukraine to be a bipartisan bridge.” – The Lonely Realist After America’s calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the Summer of 2021, TLR wrote that “America is war-weary. Its three most recent Presidents – Obama, Trump and Biden – have made military withdrawal...
“Greed is Good!” – Gordon Gekko Was Cassandra right? Interviewed by TLR on February 18th, Cassandra predicted that the Federal Reserve would successfully fine-tune America’s economy and achieve a soft landing. She dismissed pundits’ warnings of an imminent recession and scoffed at a financial Armageddon. Her...
The June 10th TLR entitled “The Supremely Supreme Court” speculated about the possibility of chaotic consequences that would follow from Moore v. Harper should the Court endorse the “state legislature theory” and determine that a State legislature has the Constitutional authority to set the rules...
“Your choice!” – The Lonely Realist Conflict or compromise is the choice facing Americans today. Oh, that also is the choice facing China and America. “We are in a period of clamor, of bewilderment, of an almost tremulous unrest.” If this resonates as a description of today’s...
"Not for some time.” – The Lonely Realist What is a “Dalio Moment”? Ray Dalio is a leading proponent of cycle theory. His book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, predicts an unhappy end to the current “Big Cycle,” warning that an unraveling of the...