“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. ...
The U.S. increased the size of the target on its chest when it used its financial muscle to sanction and impose tariffs on countries that failed to comply with its post-WWII capitalist, democracy-centered, moralistic international order. As a consequence, the U.S. now resembles the deer in...
Today’s TLR is about the Soaring Dragon, its wings shading the global landscape … and the Resting Eagle, seated in its nest with its wings tucked neatly at its sides. The Dragon is China …, the 21st Century’s rising Great Power (its flight strategy described in...
The Bedford Incident, a 1962 novel and 1965 movie, is a parable of great-power risk, required reading/viewing for 21st Century political leaders. The Bedford Incident presents the fictional story of an intense game of cat-and-mouse between American and Soviet naval vessels off the coast of Greenland....