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...
“America should profit from its foreign entanglements.” – The Lonely Realist America is well-positioned to profit from today’s international military and munitions supply-demand imbalance, prison inmate and immigrant oversupply, the domestic consensus for increased protectionism, and foreign policy prerogatives in the Middle East, Europe, Taiwan, Korea,...
“How many Americans understand the stakes?” – The Lonely Realist TLR has been beating the drum for years that “America’s enemies are waging a coordinated war against it” and “America needs to address those threats now.” What began in March 2019 as a warning about America’s...