Without some carrots, sanctions less likely to work

There is a paradox with economic sanctions. They tend to command widespread support within the sanctioning country yet frequently fail to change the behavior of the targeted country. Despite 20 years of sanctions, North Korea can now make a nuclear strike anywhere within the United States. It also supplied infantry rockets and missiles to the […]Continue Reading

Biden’s mission from God taking NATO straight to hell

According to US President Joe Biden, America’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is “sacred.”  To be fair, NATO has proved to be one of the most enduring multilateral military alliances in history. Yet the mission it was designed for, to defend Western Europe from a Soviet invasion during the Cold War, has been […]Continue Reading