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Karl Rove, the political architect of President George W. Bush’s successful 2000 and 2004 White House campaigns, has again been spotted at the White House after reports circulated that he is advising President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. 

The Trump administration announced Thursday it was withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, citing Russian noncompliance.

PRAGUE (AP) – The Iron Curtain was more than just a figure of speech: Communist regimes set up thousands of miles of heavily-guarded, electrified barbed wire fencing to completely isolate Eastern Europe from the West.

China has accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “outdated Cold War thinking” after the diplomat warned that China posed a fundamental threat to Western democratic freedoms.

After something big happens, the temptation is to say, in retrospect, “Oh yeah, it was obvious.  We all knew that would happen.”  As they say, everyone has 20/20 hindsight.

BERLIN (AP) – Police and organizers say more than 100,000 people took part in an open-air party celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is marking the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.

America’s acquisition of Nazi-developed rocket technology was essential to its victory in the Cold War, explained Dean Reuter.

We’ve learned a lot from the National Basketball Association’s kowtow to the People’s Republic of China. Here are five key takeaways.

As we enter into what seems to be Cold War Two with China, what lessons about internal security can we learn from Cold War One?

A strong argument in favor of the space program is the value of its “spinoffs.” Here we explore ten spinoffs, or discoveries and improvements, that came as a consequence of NASA’s work. 

President Donald Trump will send a U.S. delegation to arms control talks in Geneva this week with Russia that could lay the groundwork for a trilateral agreement including China.

“They want us to bankrupt ourselves, that’s the goal,” said Ret. Gen. Robert Spalding of China’s plan to usurp America’s global position.

Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the Soviet blockade of Berlin which sparked ‘Operation Vittles’, as the Berlin Airlift became officially known.

David P. Goldman, Asia Times columnist, told Breitbart News “tariffs aren’t going to be enough to stop the Chinese juggernaut.”

Declassified photos from U2 spy planes flown by the U.S. over Europe, the Middle East, and Central Eastern Asia during the Cold War have reportedly revealed historical information now used by archaeologists to discover hidden archaeological sites.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on electromagnetic pulse weapons (EMP) on March 26, becoming the first among nine presidents knowledgeable about the threat to take it seriously.

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or anyone, attacks Ronald Wilson Reagan, it is fitting and proper for loyal Reaganites, including this one, to rise to the Gipper’s defense. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin used an interview with Russian media on Wednesday to elaborate on the threats he made against the United States in his annual address.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News exclusively that China’s intense international push for global dominance is the biggest threat that America has ever faced, even more substantial than the one that the Soviet Union posed in the 20th century during the Cold War.

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard pledged to end wars, including the “new cold war,” during a campaign swing through New Hampshire this weekend.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attacked Special Envoy on Venezuela Elliott Abrams in a House Foreign Affairs Committee session on Wednesday, accusing him of genocidal culpability for a “massacre” in 1980s El Salvador during which “more than 800 civilians, including children as young as two years old, were brutally murdered by U.S.-trained troops.”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the essay that changed the world: Jeane Kirkpatrick’s “Dictatorships and Double Standards.” Her words are as relevant to today’s foreign policy challenges as they were to 1979’s.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech to the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday in which he defended President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, saying the president is reforming the “liberal international order” by restoring the role and responsibility of nation-states, and making America stronger.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pledged on Tuesday to hold over 4,000 military drills over the course of 2019, as well as around 8,500 practical combat training events as the Putin regime seeks to shore up its military preparation.

President Donald Trump on Saturday indicated the United States will withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) due to persistent Russian violations. The Russians responded that American withdrawal would unleash “full chaos in the nuclear weapons sphere,” as parliamentary foreign affairs chief Konstantin Kosachev put it.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily to discuss his new book Why We Fight: Defeating America’s Enemies – With No Apologies. Gorka, a former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and former national security editor for Breitbart News, also discussed some of the top national security stories of the day.

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper resumed attacks on the Trump administration Sunday in response to what it calls a “barrage of high-profile accusations” from Washington, particularly an extensive speech by Vice President Mike Pence two weeks ago identifying China as a global threat.

China’s state-run Global Times vowed over the weekend to fight back against “insults” from U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and promised a “new Cold War” if the Trump administration forces the issue by continuing to produce “hostile reports and speeches.”

China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday lashed out against U.S. Vice President Mike Pence for a speech on Thursday evening in which he accused the Chinese of stealing technology, co-opting U.S. tech companies into censorship campaigns, and interfering in American politics.

The American ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, said on Tuesday the U.S. military is prepared to “take out” banned Russian cruise missiles if they are deployed against Europe in defiance of a treaty dating back to the Cold War.

The headline in Axios on August 8 demanded attention: “Sputnik moment for U.S. military.”  For his part, Virgil paid particularly close attention, since he published a piece with virtually the same headline, for Breitbart News, back on September 16, 2017: “The Threat from China — America’s New ‘Sputnik Moment.’” 

Rand Paul agreed to talks with the Russian government, saying, “Engagement is vital to our national security and peace around the world.”

Perhaps the best sign that Trump’s foreign policy is succeeding – or at least promising — is the frothing-at-the-mouth crazy quality of the critiques his foreign policy attracts.

The remonstrations of history are rarely heeded in moments of mass hysteria. But before the new Cold Warriors and their neocon fellow travelers lead us into a crusade based on an FBI report about a computer server the bureau never got to inspect, perhaps we should consider the track record of U.S. intelligence in times of war.

Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan is slamming the political left in the Washington, D.C. beltway for what he says is their longing for a “second Cold War” with Russia.