“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...
“The clarity of double standards is striking.” – The Lonely Realist Once upon a time there was a land shared by several tribes with a common heritage – Casa. The tribes had been living side-by-side since the beginning of time, planting, nurturing and harvesting, sharing the...
“America has been under attack for more than a decade.” – The Lonely Realist TLR in its commentaries of March 27, 2019 and September 13, 2020 cautioned that provocations aggressions against America by China, Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and other members of the aptly-named...
“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...