Columns by Clifford D. May
Credit where credit is due: Russian President Vladimir Putin is revitalizing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that has never been obsolete but had become obsolescent.
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May 17, 2022
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Congratulations on winning the Ohio Senate GOP primary! What an amazing American journey you're having!
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May 10, 2022
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For months, the smart money has been betting that a nuclear deal between President Biden and Iran's rulers was a sure thing.
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May 3, 2022
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Dear President Biden, you're a busy guy, so I'll get straight to the point. You've now been in office for over a year, and you still don't have a National Security Strategy?
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April 26, 2022
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Let's acknowledge that we're treading on dangerous ground. Russia is ruled by a thug who has launched a war intended to extinguish Ukraine as an independent nation.
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April 19, 2022
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With oceans to our east and west, and weak neighbors to our north and south, we Americans sometimes have a hard time understanding the plight of nations threatened by big, bad neighbors.
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April 12, 2022
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These are confusing times, and President Biden is not helping to bring clarity. Last week, for example, he told the Business Roundtable that "there's going to be a new world order." What could he possibly have meant?
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March 29, 2022
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Central to America's Cold War strategy was the principle of MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction.
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March 22, 2022
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McDonald's is closing its restaurants in Russia, which means no more Happy Meals in Gorky Park. But there's also a McNugget of geostrategic significance in this development.
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March 15, 2022
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We all have our patterns of behavior.
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March 8, 2022
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging a war of imperial conquest. That's despicable but, from a historical perspective, hardly novel.
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March 1, 2022
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In my column on Feb. 1, I offered a prediction that Russian President Vladimir Putin would "not start a war during the Olympics, which take place in the People's Republic of China.
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February 22, 2022
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In 1982, President Ronald Reagan addressed the British Parliament, expressing optimism about the "global campaign for democracy now gathering force."
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February 15, 2022
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Antisemitism is an easily transmissible virus. Mutations are not necessarily less lethal.
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February 8, 2022
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Unless your name is Vladimir Putin, you don't know whether Russian troops are going to invade Ukraine.
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February 1, 2022
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Chamath Palihapitiya is a household name - at least in the kind of houses featured in the Wall Street Journal's weekly "Mansion" section.
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January 25, 2022
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As he begins his second year in office this week, President Biden looks toward the horizon and sees multiple challenges and threats.
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January 18, 2022
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Historians usually date the start of the Holocaust to June 1941 when German troops invaded the Soviet Union, identified Jewish civilians, lined them up and shot them by the thousands.
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January 11, 2022
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In November 2013, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, addressing the Organization of American States, made news by announcing: "The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over."
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January 4, 2022
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Science is never settled. Among those who established that: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Einstein. History is never settled either. No one has done more to establish that than Andrew Roberts, the great British historian.
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December 29, 2021
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