“The West needs to adopt a 21st Century strategy to address the economic, political and military fallout from the Ukrainian War.” – The Lonely Realist That great sucking sound you’ve been hearing is America being drawn back into the international arena. Should American leadership again falter,...
“Decades of poorly-executed American foreign policy, excessive money-printing, and partisan infighting have taken America – and the world – to a tipping point.” – The Lonely Realist Walter Russell Mead last week penned an editorial in the Wall Street Journal (“Crisis for Biden’s Chaotic Foreign Policy”)...
“The West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by detonating its nuclear currencies. Fallout will include inflation, geopolitical instability and more.” – The Lonely Realist Vladimir Putin has set his sights on attaining immortality by following in the footsteps of Peter the Great and creating...
“If you haven’t been paying attention to America’s conflicts with China, Russia, and Iran, START DOING SO NOW! Those three nations are waging a coordinated multi-front war against America and, unless America resolves its own internal conflicts and its citizens address their challenges, the U.S....
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” –Winton Churchill (paraphrasing George Santayana) As TLR wrote two years ago (on September 30, 2019 in "The Failure of American Foreign Policy" linked below), America has been pursuing a failed foreign policy of speaking loudly and...
“Nationalism can build a bridge across the partisan divide.” – The Lonely Realist China has a plan, a well-thought-out plan, for absorbing Taiwan and, in doing so, taking a significant step towards empire-building and global hegemony … and exposing the weakness of America's democracy and military. ...