TLR published the following commentary on September 30, 2019. It – and earlier posts such as Axis of the Sanctioned and later ones like Foreign Policy Lessons Forgotten – are once again timely in light of Russia's pending threatened actions against Ukraine. Historians eagerly highlight the...
“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. ...
Who Uses Cash Anymore? TLR doesn’t. Do you? Covid-19 has accelerated change the creation and evolution of paper money alternatives … or, insofar as moving towards a cashless society is concerned, Covid-19 has enhanced progress. Exchanging cash is now so … passé! So … 20th Century! And...
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...