TLR earlier this week engaged in the following Q&A: Q:           I understand, Mr. Realist, that you recently repeated that “Iran and Israel have been dancing with war for decades.” Could you explain what you meant? REALIST:           Since the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979,...

“Defining Zionism.” – The Lonely Realist As Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year and reiterated on Late Night with Seth Meyers in February: “I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.” He became...

“Isolationism (noun): a foreign policy virus that sickens nations.” – The Lonely Realist “Google Sudetenland, 1938.” – Senator Angus King (I ME) As TLR has repeatedly noted, the embrace of isolationism by successive 21st Century Presidents has been disastrous counterproductive America-destructive. Efforts to sever the U.S. from...