Appeasement is the attempt to feed a crocodile in the hope that it will eat you last. When diplomacy ignores the foundational rot of an ideology for the sake of "procedural fairness," it ceases to be statecraft and becomes a suicide pact. To ignore the heat of rage is to ignore the reality of the fi...

While you read this, my family is counting the seconds, wondering if they will see the sunrise. It is a soul-crushing humiliation to have to prove that your family deserves to live, but I will do anything to save them. Imagine for a second that your entire world was collapsing, and your only hope wa...

#g8 - until europe is mature enough to recognize their mistakes in policy which led to the reality of russian protectionism - which if you're honest about protection, russia only did in 2012 what the eu is now proposing with their own "protection". russia should be enfolded into european policy not ...