Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? By Patrick Buchanan

Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine?

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Now that the Soviet Empire is dead, the Soviet Union is dead. Communism is dormant, and the USSR has devolved into 15 nations; why did we move our Cold War alliance onto Moscow’s front porch? Would we tolerate this? When NBC’s Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt …

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The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew By Patrick Buchanan

The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew

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Bedeviled by anti-war protests and bomb threats, Nixon’s first year ended in triumph after his “Silent Majority” speech rallied the nation and rocked the left back on its heels, vaulting the president’s approval rating to 69%… Where Donald Trump used social media to communicate with his following, Nixon used national …

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Stress Test for a Fading Superpower By Patrick Buchanan

Stress Test for a Fading Superpower

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And as we went crusading for a new world order, Vladimir Putin’s Russia gradually recovered from its crushing Cold War defeat, and China began to move out of America’s shadow to become the most powerful rival modern America had ever faced. Because America entered both world wars of the 20th …

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Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine By Patrick Buchanan

Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine

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The point of the episode for today’s crisis in Ukraine? A powerful army on a nation’s border can send a message and dictate terms without going in and without going to war. When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved …

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What Matters Most to Nations and Peoples? By Patrick J. Buchanan

What Matters Most to Nations and Peoples?

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Their greater fear is not of Putin’s Russia but of an EU superstate whose dominance leads inexorably to the decline and disappearance of distinct ethnic nations. To the leaders of Hungary and Poland and the traditionalist and populist right-wing parties of Europe, nationality matters more than political systems. Speaking in …

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NATO -- Strategic Asset or Liability? By Patrick Buchanan

NATO — Strategic Asset or Liability?

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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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Is Democracy Dying or America Disintegrating?

Is Democracy Dying or America Disintegrating?

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Again, the American right is today routinely compared to Nazis, fascists and Klansmen. Why would good liberal Democrats accept an electoral victory and future rule by Nazis and fascists rather than seek to overturn it, by whatever means necessary? “What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was …

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Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future? By Patrick Buchanan

Is Biden Right? Does the Left Own the Future?

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There is another reason Biden would like to force Republicans to identify their goals. Naming them would reveal the divisions inside the GOP on priorities and open Republicans up to the kind of attacks the GOP is mounting against Biden’s agenda. Before he appeared at his first solo news conference …

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