The U.S. must view China’s actions through a realist lens if the eagle hopes to tame the dragon and avert a costly war.
Author: Srdja Trifkovic (Srdja Trifkovic)
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Russia Diminished?
Those who view Russia’s apparent drawdown in its war with Ukraine as a sign of weakness and a signal that there is no longer any danger in provoking the bear betray their ignorance of history.
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Viktor Orbán, Down But Not Out
Viktor Orbán was voted out last month, but he remains Western civilization’s indispensable man as Europe suffers its dark night of the soul.
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European Integration at 75: A Flawed Project
The hope of unifying Europe in all its national diversity has been hopelessly overturned by leftist ideologues who, instead, want to destroy national diversity in the name of a forced unity.
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Persian Games
A permanent peace in the Middle East is unlikely, no matter how effectively Iran’s military potential has been degraded over the past six weeks.
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Finding Victory in Iran and a Swift End to the War
President Trump must define victory in Iran and deliver it quickly.
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A Grand Strategy, Anyone?
Washington needs to regain its ability to distinguish between America’s vital interests and ideological obsessions abroad.
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How Turkey Will Use the War With Iran for Its Own Ends
Erdoğan has exploited chaos in the Middle East to increase Turkey’s geopolitical power. He hopes to step in to fill the power vacuum after the U.S. war with Iran.
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Is a Return to Hobbesian Reality
In the affairs of nations, the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
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Rubio’s Call for Europe to Renew the West Falls on Deaf Ears
The European Parliament’s commitment to transgender insanity as a central part of its foreign policy, as well as its demand for Russian reparations, demonstrate the unbridgeable gap between the U.S. and Europe.
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The Winter of Italian Content Is Deceptive
The stability defining Giorgia Meloni’s government is deceptively reassuring, as the calm it produces prevents Italians from tackling their most nagging problems: immigration and low birthrates.
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The Maduro Operation Revealed Trump the Realist
The Trump administration’s action in Venezuela shows that sentimental appeals to international law have no place in American foreign policy.
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A Return to the Only Real ‘Rule-Based International Order’: National Interest
After more than 30 years of bowing to the liberal, post-Cold War “Rules-Based International Order,” Trump has upended U.S. foreign policy in favor of one grounded in its real national interests.
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The Trump Doctrine
President Trump has outlined a sound and pragmatic foreign policy based on a neo-Monroe Doctrine, in which America aims to reinforce its political, economic, and military preeminence in the Western hemisphere.
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A Diplomatic Revolution
Trump’s move to decouple America from Europe’s effete ruling class has been the international event of the year.
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The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians
Christians of different traditions and in different lands need to hang together, or else they will most assuredly hang separately.
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Europe’s Unending Tragedy
Europe’s politicians are displaying the same old mix of audacity, fear, greed, and fanaticism that lead to the World Wars. This time, it may result in a truly final catastrophe.
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A Tale of Two Stools
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.
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Germany’s Election Promises an Unsteady Future
With a federal chancellor as “conservative” as Mitt Romney, Germany will continue to be an oppressive leftist state on par with Canada and Sweden.
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Europe’s Patriots Enthused by Trump
Donald Trump has inspired a patriotic movement well beyond America's borders. "Make America Great Again" has birthed "Make Europe Great Again!"
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Trump’s Week That Shook the World
In just a week, Trump has transformed American foreign policy as it applies to the Russia-Ukraine War and all of Europe.
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About Islam: A Letter to President Trump
Mr. President, the danger of radical Islam is still with us, and while that danger cannot be completely eradicated, it is both possible and necessary to act decisively to reduce it as much as possible.
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Is Taki a Fascist?
In its best sense, divorced from the perversion of Nazism, fascism is a style and an aesthetic characterized by stoic service and manly virtues, and not about worldviews or grand schemes.
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German Police Shield Muslim Offenders, Fail German Society
German police have made it their priority to keep the public in the dark about the identity of the majority criminal element in that society.
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Biden Degrades Presidential Medal of Freedom by ‘Honoring’ George Soros
In choosing to bestow an award on a monster and enemy of Western civilization, Biden has betrayed Americans one more time.
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We Were Right About Foreign Policy
U.S. leaders continue vindicating Chronicles' warnings with their disastrous foreign policy decisions. It remains to be seen whether President Trump will continue to break the trend by keeping the U.S. out of unnecessary wars.
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2024: A Chaotic Year in Review
A noteworthy year full of developments in world affairs leaves us wary of the evil they reveal, and hopeful that this evil will never triumph.
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A Yuletide Note: Jesus, the Asylum Seeker?
Contemporary attempts to paint Jesus Christ as a slighted migrant are politically, not biblically, inspired.
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Government of Germany’s Chancellor Scholz Collapses
Scholz lost a vote of confidence due to mounting economic concerns. New elections in February may embroil Germany further in the war in Ukraine.
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A Global Agenda for Trump 2.0
It is strange that pundits routinely accuse Trump of being unpredictable on foreign affairs. In fact, during this year’s campaign, he has made a series of statements related to the pressing global issues which are fairly clear and reasonable.
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Viktor Orbán and Gerhard Schröder on War and Peace in Europe
The clear vision—but slim hope—of peace and prosperity in Europe was on display at a recent conference in Vienna.
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A Realist’s Reassessment of America’s Alliance With Israel
Washington should recognize that Israel has interests different from those of the U.S. Such an honest reckoning would help both parties define their interests and long-term strategies.
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Austria’s Right Wins the Election, But Will Not Be Allowed to Rule
Austria’s election carried a sovereignist party over the finish line in first place. Yet a coalition of losing left-wing parties will band together to keep it from governing.
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The West’s Fraudulent Democracies
Western elites consider transgenderist ideology and mass immigration foundational to democracy, while in truth they are destructive of all things democratic.
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Hezbollah Degraded
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to switch the focus from Gaza in the south to Hezbollah in the north was an operational success of the highest order and a political masterpiece.
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Germany’s AfD Derangement Syndrome
The leftist hysteria that frames its opposition as Nazis has finally subsided in the U.S., but in Germany it’s just getting started.
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The Meaning of Kursk
The Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk territory is unlikely to change the outcome of the war in Ukraine. The refusal to see that is only prolonging Ukraine’s misery.
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Remembering Klemens von Metternich
Metternich orchestrated a European balance of power, which ensured nearly a century of peace and flourishing, but he failed to deal with the forces of nationalism and liberalism.
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The Laboratory of the Apocalypse
America’s “collective West” is plagued with serious neuroses. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently provided a compelling summary.
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Germany Encapsulates the West’s Totalitarian Drift
The recent totalitarian drift in Germany shows what happens when Western people cannot suppress the nagging doubt that they are not morally responsible actors but unquestioning consumers of predigested choices.
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Neocon Pitfalls for Trump 2.0
Former Trump advisor Robert C. O’Brien began campaigning for a spot in the next Trump admin by penning an unhinged neocon manifesto. Unfortunately, O’Brien may soon find his way into the second Trump admin.
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A Tale of Two Elections
Despite a surge of popular support for right-wing parties in Britain and France, this summer's elections ended with an effective containment of the right that will last for years to come.
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Germany Moves Away From Woke Regime Politics. Will America?
The once-docile German people no longer trust their political establishment to deal rationally with immigration and crime. A growing people’s revolt in Europe may be a sign of things to come in America.
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Switzerland’s Ukraine Peace Summit Was a Call for Continued War
Western demands aired at last week’s peace summit on the Russia-Ukrainian War were but the unrealistic wish list of the Biden administration and its most hawkish European cohorts.
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EU Establishment Lashes Out in Aftermath of Election
EU leaders have vowed to “build a bastion” against the surging popularity of Europe’s right-wing parties, as smearing their opposition as “Nazis” no longer works.
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A Report from Europe: There is Hope
A quiet majority of Europeans who do not cherish self-annihilation are waking up.
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D-Day at 80: The Score
D-Day was not a turning point of the Second World War. It was the first and arguably the most decisive operation of the Cold War.
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Transnational Injustice
The International Criminal Court is a political court, no less than the one which convicted Donald Trump in New York.