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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
1y ago
What do liberal Democrats do, if, in a free and fair election, U.S. voters throw them out and replace them with people our elites routinely equate with fascists and Nazis? We may be about to find out. “Make no mistake — democracy is on the ballot for us all.” So ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
Nothing done in Ukraine in this two-month war has diminished the Russian arsenal of 6,000 nuclear weapons, the world’s largest stockpile. And the more we destroy Russian conventional power, the more we force Moscow to fall back onto its ace in the hole — nuclear weapons. “Once war is forced ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
For 40 years of the Cold War, Ukraine was an integral part of the Soviet Union. In 1991, Bush I warned Ukrainian secessionists, who wanted to sever ties to Russia, not to indulge such “suicidal nationalism.” And though we brought 14 new nations into NATO after 1991, Bill Clinton, George ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
Since calling Putin a killer, Biden has progressed to calling him “a war criminal,” “a murderous dictator,” “a pure thug” and “a butcher.” It is difficult to recall an American president using such a string of epithets about the leader of a nation with which we were not at war. ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
While it flew 600 miles from Pyongyang into the Sea of Japan, the mammoth missile flew for 71 minutes, reaching an altitude of 3,852 miles. Had it been fired in a normal trajectory, its missile warheads could have reached Washington, D.C., and every city in the USA. While President Joe ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
Understandably, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked himself: To what end, and for what beneficent purpose, was this doubling in size of an alliance that was formed to contain us, and, if necessary, fight a war against Mother Russia? Is the territorial integrity of Ukraine a cause worth America’s fighting a ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
Indeed, when one considers the political situation one year after Biden’s inauguration and 10 months before the 2022 elections, how Biden turns things around for himself, his presidency and his party is not easy to see. If the left believed that draping the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, around ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
Yet the maladies and crises the country confronts from inflation, China, Russia, Iran, the explosion of shootings and murders in major cities, and our bleeding border are not Biden’s alone; they are America’s. They are ours. If Joe Biden fails, the country does not succeed. “‘Hope’ is the thing with ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
These, then, are three of the historic blunders that have forfeited for us the unique position America held at the close of the Cold War. As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige. President George H.W. Bush had ...
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Patrick J. Buchanan » Foreign Policy
2y ago
It is the United States whose National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries, and government-backed NGOs, interfere incessantly in the internal affairs of other nations to extend our democratist ideology. When did the political systems of 193 nations become the business of the government of the United States? And who ...
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