The notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable.

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – March 28, 2023 Be thankful that America has a written Constitution. The Founding Fathers were wise to write down the rules. The ratification of those rules by the people ensures democratic legitimacy for our courts in enforcing them against the political branches. Every American state likewise has a written constitution, ratified directly or indirectly...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 22, 2023 The unclassified game asked Members to imagine the summer of 2025, as China mounts a naval and air assault across the Taiwan Strait. Retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who helped run the game, tells us the U.S. had about 30 days of warning indications to move more forces...

The agreement negotiated in Beijing to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran signaled at least a temporary reordering of the usual alliances and rivalries, with Washington left on the sidelines.

Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square.

“They threw tear gas at us,” said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications. Source: Migrants rush El Paso border crossing as rumor in Mexico brings hope amid frustration over US CBP app – CBS News

Tired of the sanitized version of war shown on the news, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Verbivska returned to the country she’d just fled to chronicle the horrors of the Russian invasion.

Several right-of-center politicians and commentators are outraged over Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine. The hawks accuse the Florida governor of showing American weakness.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 6, 2023 The threats to global stability and the US homeland are growing. How will the war in Ukraine end? Can China and the US develop a less combative relationship? Join historian and Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead and editorial page editor Paul Gigot for an interactive conversation on the threats to US security....

China’s foreign minister has warned Washington of “conflict and confrontation” if it fails to change course in relations with Beijing, striking a combative tone amid conflicts over Taiwan, COVID-19, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.