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The Death of the UK Conservative Party March 15, 2025

If one does not follow British politics closely, it may be difficult to understand the near-total collapse of the Conservative Party. The oldest and most electorally successful political party in history is now facing possible extinction and near tot...

Conservative

Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive Was a Miserable Failure March 15, 2025

August 6, 2024 will forever live in the minds of Russians and Ukrainians as a moment of great consequence. On that day, Ukrainian troops embarrassed Moscow’s army yet again by conducting a mini-blitzkrieg into Kursk, a region in Russia. In the openin...

Ukraine

Norway, a Winner in the Russia-Ukraine War March 15, 2025

Due to the restructuring of the energy markets since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022, Norway now supplies 30% of Europe’s energy needs. ...

Norway

It’s Time to Cut Romania Off March 14, 2025

Walking away from an expensive peripheral air base fits neatly with several of the Trump administration’s priorities. ...

Trump’s New Tariff War Is Radically Rational March 14, 2025

Investors are panicking. Conservatives are perplexed. By tearing up free trade orthodoxy, and hitting allies with tariffs, Donald Trump appears to be fuelling inflation at the very moment when unemployment is on the rise – rejecting every metric of s...

Could Federalism Solve Syria’s Hostilities? March 13, 2025

While there is widespread support among Christians for a federalist state, many believe emigration is their only option for survival. ...

Syria

Romania’s Electoral Coup Is a Blow to Europe March 13, 2025

This past weekend, Romania’s electoral commission disqualified the frontrunner nationalist candidate, Calin Georgescu, from participating in May’s upcoming presidential contest, the latest development in an electoral saga started with the controversi...

Trump’s Economy: The Reagan Story or the Biden Story? March 13, 2025

James Carville’s political instincts remain sharp, though he is not as in tune with the current political moment as he was 33 years ago. Still, you could do worse as a political maxim than “It’s the economy, stupid!”...

economics

Europe’s Great Delusion March 13, 2025

Wars, it is said, make people conservative, since they are fought for an idea of home under threat. And yet their innate tragedy is that, even in victory, they usher in a world transformed. We are seeing this revolutionary fable playing out once agai...

Greenland’s Pro-Independence Parties Surge March 12, 2025

The results show that Greenland is only divided about what to do when and not if independence from Denmark is reached. ...

Greenland

The U.S. and Russia Come Together on Syria March 12, 2025

Following an eruption of violence in Syria, Russia and the U.S. jointly requested a closed-door meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the developing crisis, according to Dmitry Polyanskiy, a top Russian envoy to the UN. That the t...

Russia

Syria

Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First March 12, 2025

Even before President Javier Milei gifted the Boer billionaire a chain saw onstage at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the US right has long been fascinated by this country’s cherub-faced caudillo. ...

The Ugly Reality on the Ground in Syria March 12, 2025

The latest episode of violence in Syria has its roots in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Assad dynasty, according to sources on the ground who spoke to The American Conservative. Their comments contradict the narrative that remnants of the...

Syria

MAGA Should Embrace a Stronger Europe March 11, 2025

American presidents since Kennedy have wanted Europe to shoulder more of the burden of its own security. But not until President Donald Trump has a U.S. leader succeeded in getting Europeans to want the same. Of course, the eruptions of a revanchist ...

United States Senate

European Union

European Opposition to Trump Is Heavily Overstated March 11, 2025

Donald Trump’s dramatic realignment of U.S. policy away from Ukraine and towards Russia will have consequences no one can now anticipate. We can hope they will be mostly positive. But one thing should be clear: If Trump had not done something like th...

Donald Trump

Europe Has Just Become a More Dangerous Place March 10, 2025

Last time military Keynesianism was back in fashion we were well down the road towards a world war. This time European rearmament is principally geared towards restructuring its ailing economy. Its advocates have decided that defense is a better focu...

Germany

Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President March 09, 2025

“What the f— are we doing here?” asked President Trump in the summer of 2017.Nearly a year into his first term, Trump’s national security adviser had just proposed sending an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, prompting his boss’s frust...

Peace in Ukraine: The Sooner, the Better March 07, 2025

It is not enough to lament and proclaim that, in an ideal world, the aggressor must be defeated, because geopolitics is not a childish game of good versus evil. ...

Ukraine

Cuba and the Vatican Deal in the Face of U.S. Elections March 07, 2025

During the last week of Biden’s presidency, the Vatican negotiated the removal of Cuba from the terrorism sponsors list in yet another example of its long-standing relationship with the Cuban dictatorship. It’s time for the Church to stop whitewashin...

Cuba

Vatican

religious freedom

Can France and the UK Replace the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella? March 06, 2025

On February 20, 2025, shortly before Germany’s snap elections, Friedrich Merz, chairman of the conservative Christian Democratic Union and Germany’s next chancellor, made a prominent declaration about the future of European nuclear deterrence: “We ne...

France

United Kingdom

A New World of Nation States March 06, 2025

People rushed to take sides in the row between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. For many in Europe, it allegedly proved that Trump is some sort of cross between a Hitler clone and a Putin puppet. For others, esp...

foreign policy

The Problem in CANZUK Is Nationalism March 06, 2025

Ifirst learned about CANZUK when I was in the final years of my doctoral program, sometime immediately after Brexit. A grouping promoted by some people who talk in lost accents in eccentric London circles, it was considered an oddity in academic and ...

A Tale of Two Ceasefires March 06, 2025

Ukraine should heed the main lesson of the Israel/Gaza ceasefire: Europe is not prepared for an all-out fight to defend its allies, or even itself, when they are threatened. ...

Ukraine

Could Europe Turn Ukraine Into Its Own Taiwan? March 05, 2025

The ongoing war in Ukraine, now surpassing three years of relentless conflict, continues to shape Europe’s strategic landscape profoundly. President Donald Trump’s unwavering stance against Ukraine’s NATO membership underscores a broader valid concer...

Ukraine

What Is Realistic in Ukraine? March 05, 2025

During my weekend walks, I often look for a house that flies a Ukrainian flag on the front porch. When I first started walking through that neighborhood, it served as a landmark to make sure I was going the right way. ...