#In Vietnam, Henry Kissinger was worse than a fraud

#In Vietnam, Henry Kissinger was worse than a fraud

Two quotes endure from the final years of the Vietnam War. The first is “Peace is at hand,” uttered by Henry Kissinger on October 26, 1972, when he swore he’d reached a solution with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho for ending the war. The bad guys — the “North” Vietnamese and their southern affiliate, the…

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#South Korea does not need nuclear subs

#South Korea does not need nuclear subs

South Korea is again debating whether to develop and build a nuclear-powered submarine. During a National Assembly confirmation hearing that took place last week, Admiral Kim Myung-Soo, the nominee for chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded positively to a question about the utility of nuclear-powered submarines, stating that “those capabilities are needed.”…

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#Burgum pens op-ed to defend his continued candidacy

#Burgum pens op-ed to defend his continued candidacy

Republican presidential candidate and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum penned an op-ed published Thursday defending his continued candidacy. “I know what it’s like to be the underdog,” he wrote in the opinion piece that ran in The Jamestown Sun, a publication based out of North Dakota. Burgum said he wanted to run for president to…

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#Nikki Haley calls Trump ‘weak in the knees’ on Ukraine

#Nikki Haley calls Trump ‘weak in the knees’ on Ukraine

Presidential candidate Nikki Haley criticized Trump’s foreign policy during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, N.H., on Thursday, saying he is “weak in the knees” on Ukraine policy. When asked how Trump will be remembered, she gave the former president several compliments, tip-toeing around being too overtly negative about the GOP primary’s frontrunner. “He was the…

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#Pence warns against Trump, GOP ‘isolationism’

#Pence warns against Trump, GOP ‘isolationism’

Former Vice President Pence warned against growing favor in the Republican Party for American isolationism, criticizing former President Trump and other GOP presidential candidates in a speech Monday.  Pence labeled Trump and other Republicans as advocating a “dangerous form of isolationism” that amounted to “appeasement.” “Some Republican candidates, my former running mate included, are abandoning the traditional conservative…

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#Fox News pundit calls Ramaswamy proposal ‘criminally stupid’ and ‘like a freshman foreign policy paper’

#Fox News pundit calls Ramaswamy proposal ‘criminally stupid’ and ‘like a freshman foreign policy paper’

Fox News pundit and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen railed against Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s foreign policy proposals, calling them “criminally stupid,” and “utterly disqualifying.” Thiessen took to social media on Monday in response to an article Ramaswamy wrote with The American Conservative centered on how he would approach the Russia-Ukraine war and U.S. relations with China. …

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#Seven issues that will define the 2024 election

#Seven issues that will define the 2024 election

Seven issues that will define the 2024 election A handful of issues are emerging as possible flashpoints in the 2024 election as Republicans and Democrats look to finetune their messaging ahead of a consequential presidential election. President Biden sparred with conservatives over Social Security and Medicare during his annual State of the Union address, engaging…

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#Juan Williams: Ukraine unites Americans like little else

#Juan Williams: Ukraine unites Americans like little else

Juan Williams: Ukraine unites Americans like little else At year’s end, let’s first sweep away the bad news before we get to the good news. The bad news is that Americans see political extremism as now second only to inflation as the most important issue facing the country, according to FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos polling. Now the good…

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