Is Putin the ‘Preeminent Statesman’ of Our Times?
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West, when standing up for Russia’s interests, he often succeeds in...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Russia’s Revolution: Millions Died for a Horrible Idea
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute | 4/4/17 The Russian Revolution was one of the most remarkable and decisive events in history. A century has passed since revolution came to Russia. But the...
View ArticleObama Advisers Suckering Trump Further Into Syrian Quagmire
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 4/7/17 If President Trump truly will not tolerate the Assad government using chemical weapons then he should take out the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center...
View ArticleThink Things Can’t Get Worse In Syria?
CHQ Staff | 4/10/17 Taking out Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would mean we are now aligned with “partners” who include assorted Sunni Sharia-supremacists – including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, al Qaeda...
View ArticleTurns out Obama was the real Russian stooge
Rich Lowry, New York Post Accommodating the illicit nuclear ambitions of a Russian ally? Welcoming a Russian foothold in the Middle East? Refusing to provide arms to a sovereign country invaded by...
View ArticleWho Fears Russia? Not the Europeans!
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute | 6/9/17 Last year NATO Europe devoted an estimated $265 billion to defense, almost four times Moscow’s expenditures of $68 billion. The Russian Republic is...
View ArticleTrump and Putin Finally Meet: Is Reconciliation in the Air?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow Cato Institute | 7/11/17 Washington needs to restore a working relationship with Moscow on multiple issues. That doesn’t mean trusting Vladimir Putin. It does mean making...
View ArticleWas The Russian Lawyer's Meeting With Donald Trump Jr Part Of A Deep State Plot?
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 7/14/17 Connect the dots and it looks like the same group of dictator-friendly Democrats who got the the spurious dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump into the news have...
View ArticleRussia Baiters and Putin Haters
Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative Putin is not Pope Francis. But he is not Stalin; he is not Hitler; he is not Mao; and Russia today is not the USSR. Putin is an autocrat cut from the...
View ArticlePutin's Playthings
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review What foreign government could possibly entangle in truth, lies, half-truths, rumors, and scandals the Trump family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James...
View ArticleAmerica Should Put Security First and Tell Ukraine No to Joining NATO
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 8/1/17 NATO should add nations only if they increase the security of the whole. Since U.S. would do most of the heavy lifting in any conflict with...
View ArticleMeanwhile Over In Moscow
CHQ Staff | 8/4/17 With help from President Reagan’s former Attorney General Ed Meese and from Jon Utley’s Freda Utley Foundation, which provided funding, a statue of Presidents Ronald Reagan and...
View ArticleVice President Pence versus President Trump on Foreign Policy
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 8/9/17 Washington should stop thinking of containment. Rather, the Trump administration should begin disengagement, devolving onto the Europeans...
View ArticleStrike a Deal with China on North Korea
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 9/18/17 The administration’s best shot would be to mix diplomacy and sanctions in an initiative backed by the Chinese. But winning that assistance requires...
View ArticleWill Reelected Chancellor Merkel Spend the Money Necessary to Defend Germany?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 9/27/17 Donald Trump’s criticisms of Europe and NATO are well-founded. Washington should stop providing the international equivalent of welfare for...
View ArticleCan the U.S.-Turkish Alliance Survive Erdogan’s Misrule?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 10/30/17 Turkey's Islamist President and wannabe Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan has destroyed the pretense that Turkey and America are allies. The Trump...
View Article'Trust But Verify' -- Why Trump Is Right on Russia
Roger L. Simon, PJ Media It's to the credit of Donald Trump that, though assaulted for non-existent Russian ties from the beginning of his presidency and even before (as is now emerging from the...
View ArticleMake a Deal with Russia: Neutralize Ukraine, End NATO Expansion
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 12/8/17 Taking NATO membership off the table would remove Moscow’s incentive to keep the Ukrainian conflict alive. Ukraine could develop economically and...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Europeans Provide Troops for Europe’s Defense?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato institute | 1/2/18 Long after the close of World War II, the Western Europeans have recovered economically, overturned alien communist regimes, and absorbed Central...
View ArticleHillary Clinton And Our Hypersonic Missile Gap With Russia
George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 3/5/18 Russia's hypersonic missile program was born at Skolkovo a vast Russian industrial espionage program with its genesis at the nexus of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s...
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