“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...
“Although America is experiencing bitter partisanship, core policy execution will be the same whether the next President is named Trump or Biden.” – The Lonely Realist Three major policies occupy the bulk of Presidential attention: fiscal; foreign; and social. With Republicans and Democrats at terminal loggerheads,...
“Just when trust has become more important than ever …, it also has become scarcer than ever.” – Thomas Friedman (4/14/23) In a recent editorial in the New York Times, Tom Friedman focused on how trust has evaporated. Although his subject was U.S.-China relations, the sad...
"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton TLR over the last four years has repeatedly looked to Cassandra to provide insights into some of the more challenging issues facing America. For example, in...
“Although many pessimists hear echoes of the 1930s …, 2022 is not 1939.” – The Lonely Realist A TLR theme has been to highlight parallels between the Great Depression decade and the decade following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The former served as a prelude to...