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Sometime after 2002, Communist China began subtly transforming organized Latin American drug trafficking syndicates. The gangs, the biggest with the hired guns, money and political connections to rate as cartels, continued their usual felony and smuggling operations but added an additional line of operation: hybrid warfare entities, shape-...Read more

The 80th anniversaries of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide an instructive moment for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to mull the costs of war and the benefits of peace -- and perhaps rethink risking a head-to-head collision with nuclear-armed America and a revitalized and rearming NATO.

The nuclear weapons dropped on ...Read more

On Monday, July 28, during a trip to Britain, President Donald Trump dramatically reduced the time Russian President Vladimir Putin has to end the Russo-Ukraine War.

For some five months, Trump has tried to cajole, hustle and verbally compel a cessation of hostilities between Putin's regime and Ukraine. After a diplomatic scuffle, President ...Read more

Thank Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for beginning the necessary process of refuting and punishing the Obama administration's RussiaRussiaRussia lies that put American national security at risk.

That's no exaggeration, and I'll show why below.

Gabbard has given the facts to the Department of Justice for review and possible ...Read more

On July 15, according to X (formerly Twitter), a reporter on the White House lawn asked, "Are you on Ukraine's side now?"

President Donald Trump replied: "I am on nobody's side. I am on humanity's side. I want to stop the killing."

I buy Trump's response. He's said that for about three decades. I've got published essays that support that ...Read more

Popular history credits Russian Czar Nicholas I with describing 19th-century Ottoman Turkey as "The Sick Man of Europe."

British envoy Sir George Hamilton's full quote lacks the headline's memorable pop: "We have a sick man on our hands, a man gravely ill ..." The czar added that it would be dreadful if sick man Turkey slipped away "before ...Read more

Trump administration "transactional diplomacy" envoys definitely tackle the tough wars -- but this time, the process has produced a bona fide peace deal.

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda aren't high-tech Ukraine and Russia. Russian nuclear weapons and proximity to NATO nations give that war a deadly global relevance.

However, a ...Read more

As I write this column late on June 24, Israel and Ayatollah Iran have stopped their latest battle of long-range missiles and bombs.

A tentative ceasefire holds, a ceasefire more or less personally imposed by U.S. president Donald Trump.

The predicate for Trump's ability to demand a ceasefire? The U.S. Air Force 509th Bomb Wing's jaw-...Read more

The Israel-Iran War Over Nuclear Weapons could end with a nuclear blast. Why have a reluctant Washington send two American B-2 stealth bombers each dropping a 30,000-pound (15-ton) Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) conventional bomb destroy Iran's buried Fordow uranium enrichment facility?

Israel has nuclear weapons, everyone knows that. One ...Read more

"This anarchy will not stand," President Donald Trump told his Fort Bragg, North Carolina, audience of Green Berets, Rangers and 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers -- the disciplined cadre of America's XVIII Airborne Corps sitting in the grandstands.

The anarchy Trump condemned is/was in Los Angeles, on the west side of America's fruited ...Read more

Bravo to Ukraine for its "New Model Trojan Horse."

Homer's Greek warriors slipped from a wooden horse to open Troy's gates and start the bloodbath that ended a 10-year war.

Ukraine cleverly and stealthily shipped wooden crates deep inside Russian territory, 1,500 kilometers into Siberia. The truck-borne crates were finally positioned a short...Read more

What does Russian dictator Vladimir Putin value?

My question's immediate frame of reference: Donald Trump says Ukraine war-waging, ceasefire-dawdling Putin is insane. Moreover, if Putin evades sincere peace negotiations, the Kremlin leader confronts "really bad things" and, ultimately, is "playing with fire."

"Really bad things" is a ...Read more

On May 14, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick received a letter written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) -- and co-signed by 11 other senators and four members of the House.

The letter is a big political punch with strategic information purpose.

Cotton chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee and Risch the Senate ...Read more