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China
Why The U.S. Isn’t Prepared For a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
David P. Goldman discusses the potential for China to invade Taiwan, and what Am...
How The Financial Crisis Pushed China and America Apart
What is the relationship between the 2008 financial crisis and the deterioration...
How China Is Taking Over Africa and the Global South
Why do developing nations overwhelmingly support China rather than the U.S.? Wil...
Will China Collapse? (ft. David Goldman)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with David Go...
The Case for a Hard Break With China
“Even if China were to disarm tomorrow, credibly forswearing any aspirations b...
Why is China on the move in the South Pacific?
A special 60 Minutes investigation revealing China's soft invasion of Australia�...
Geopolitics of the South China Sea in 2023
The US military is planning to have a transformative year in the Pacific. To the...
Russia
Ukraine: The Disputed Question
Mark Helprin and Michael Anton debate the war in Ukraine....
Why Are We in Ukraine?
"The United States, thus far in a less bloody way, is also involved in a war it ...
How NATO’s expansion helped drive Putin to invade Ukraine
Ukraine, as the largest former Soviet republic in Europe besides Russia itself, ...
‘Ukraine Maximalists’ On The Right Still Dominate. But For How Long?
Their position is eroding as more Republicans are worried about the threat of es...
Symposium: Lessons From Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
As the one-year mark of the Ukraine-Russia war approaches, Moscow has failed in ...
By Various
BlackRock Plots to Buy Ukraine
BlackRock will be creating a roadmap for reconstruction for Ukraine....
Iraq, Afghanistan Provide Lessons on US Weapons Flows
Will this latest batch of weapons headed to Ukraine finally win the peace? While...
Moment of Truth Episodes
Why Russia Fell Flat (feat. Dr. Jon Askonas)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Dr. Jon ...
NATO Delenda Est (feat. Dr. Sumantra Maitra)
Dr. Sumantra Maitra joins Moment of Truth to talk NATO, foreign policy, realism,...
Will Great Powers War Once More? (feat. Elbridge Colby)
Elbridge Colby talks U.S.-China competition, Taiwan, geopolitics, and more on Mo...
Biden’s Build Back Beijing Plan (feat. Michael Stumo)
Michael Stumo talks trade, Biden's 'Build Back Better' plan, industrial policy, ...
Janky Wars, Jingoism, and Joe Biden (feat. Dan Caldwell)
Dan Caldwell joins Moment of Truth to talk realism and restraint, the situation ...
Can We Please Buy Greenland? (feat. Nick Solheim)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sit downs with American Moment's very own ...
The True Cost of War (feat. Joe Kent) | Moment of Truth Ep. 16
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh & Nick sit down with Joe Kent, former Gree...
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Arctic Fever
"A new book makes a strong case that Russia’s Arctic policy does not present a...
By Nick Solheim
Who Is Winning The Scramble For Africa?
Russia and China have their claws in Africa, outflanking the West on economic an...
By Thomas Fazi
‘The World That We Will Live and Die In’
“There’s been this desire in the last 50 or 60 years…to define America’s...
Getting Serious About Responsible Defense Spending
"Congress needs to take a Moneyball approach to our national defense," writes Dr...
The Collapse of Globalization and America’s Retreat
Peter Zeihan, geopolitical strategist and author of The End of the World Is Just...
How TSMC Became a Linchpin of the Global Economy
At a time of shortages and superpower competition over new technology, the compa...
The Mineral Conflict Is Here
The Ukraine War is resulting in the biggest shock to the global energy system si...
By Brian Balkus
Middle East
Israel, Jewish Billionaires, and National Conservatism (ft. Yoram Hazony)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Yoram Hazony, Ch...
Our National Disgrace in Iraq and Syria
American troops are needlessly risking life and limb because of policy paralysis...
By Dan Caldwell
Saagar’s Worried About World War III (ft. Saagar Enjeti)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Saagar Enjeti, H...
There Is No Liberal Answer to the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The West's moral framework does not apply to ethnic disputes, writes Aris Roussi...
Interregnums Are Never Just
As imperial order frays due to the self-imposed relative power loss of the Ameri...
How Bush Sold a War to the American People
Johnny Harris explores the run up to the Iraq war, and how the invasion of Iraq ...
Many Arms and Little Influence in the Middle East
Rather than speeding up sales to these risky countries, U.S. policymakers should...
Realism Theory
‘Historian, More Than a Statesman’
"A realist man, ideally suited for the Royal courts of the nineteenth century, h...
The Case for a Restrained Republican Foreign Policy
Conservatives Can’t Go Back to Ignoring the Limits of American Power ...
By Dan Caldwell
The Monroe+ Doctrine: A 21st Century Update for America’s Foreign Policy
America’s foreign policy has been adrift since 2003, clinging to outdated doct...
George Kennan’s Warning on Ukraine
"If alive today, Kennan would note the danger of cornering the Russians to the p...
Emmanuel Todd: World War III has already begun
French historian Emmanuel Todd says that the West is now in an existential confl...
By Rob Lownie
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin...
Why Russia and China Are Strengthening Security Ties
Alexander Gabuev explores whether or not the United States has played a role in ...
Intel Community
I Do Not (Unanimously) Consent (ft. Dan Caldwell)
In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Nick sits down with Dan Caldwell, U.S. ...
How to Fix the FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has become a serious threat to the libertie...
A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century
"Since 2016, the federal government has spent billions of dollars on turning the...
By Jacob Siegel
Tucker Carlson on Leak of Classified Ukraine Documents
Fox News host Tucker Carlson gives his take on the leak of classified government...
The CIA: Bumbling Intelligence
"The CIA’s task is to lead a frenzied clamor of alarm about “disinformation,...
By Martin Gurri
Regime Change, American Style: The Real Story of Watergate
Nixon’s enemies indulged in a retrospective moralization of Watergate, obfusca...
The American Security State Comes Home
After 21 years, it appears we have gone full circle: the War on Terror’s “yo...
History
Reckoning with Colonialism
As a moral framework for assessing regimes in an imperfect world, Colonialism: A...
By Samuel Gregg
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
A former foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe and The New York Times, Step...
John Quincy Adams’ 1821 Independence Day Address
Then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams used this speech to lay out his vision...
Europe
Why Poland Is Quietly Becoming Europe’s Next Superpower
In just three decades, Poland went through an incredible transformation. But the...
Boomer Europe is Dying
“Half museum and half retirement home, Europe grew fat and complacent as histo...
Ungovernable France
A divided country lurches toward nationalism, writes Christopher Caldwell in the...
Britain Is Dead
Despite its early industrial dominance, Britain’s elites never managed to adap...
How NATO’s expansion helped drive Putin to invade Ukraine
Ukraine, as the largest former Soviet republic in Europe besides Russia itself, ...
Europe Is The Free-Rider Continent
“The cuddly form of capitalism embraced in Europe has markedly failed to creat...
The U.S. effort to arm Ukraine starts in Scranton, Pennsylvania
The war in Ukraine has led to a huge surge in U.S. ammunition production. ...
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