foreign policy

Billionaire Tom Steyer said at the Democrat debate on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has no strategy for conducting foreign policy.

Trump has used sanctions to diminish Iran’s appetite for war, and has created a set of impossible choices for the Iranian regime.

America’s adversaries know there is “no worse enemy” than the United States under Donald Trump’s leadership, assessed Sebastian Gorka.

Removing American forces from Iraq after the killing of Qasem Soleimani would likely damage Tehran’s interests, assessed Lee Smith.

China’s regime is “metastasizing right in front of our eyes” and will match U.S. military spending in 15 to 20 years, said Henry Olsen.

“Iranians are no threat to America in this country,” said Ann Coulter, stating that 30,000 Americans are killed every year “because of our neighbor to the south.”

Fact checkers from a number of different establishment media operations crushed former Vice President Joe Biden this week as the issue of Iranian aggression continues to captivate the nation just weeks from the Iowa caucuses.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said the United States could likely destroy Iran’s war-making capabilities by collapsing the Persian Gulf state’s economy without “boots on the ground,” offering his remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host John Hayward.

Analysts are reluctantly concluding that Iran’s retaliation Tuesday night for the strike on General Qasem Soleimani, in which there were no U.S. casualties from over a dozen missiles, is a policy “win” for President Donald Trump.

Biden criticized the president for having no “strategy” on Iran and for failing to hold a press conference about Soleimani, among other omissions.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is complaining about President Donald Trump’s attack on Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq — just two days after complaining that Trump was “impotent” to respond to Iranian attacks.

The year 2020 begins with incredible potential for supporters of President Donald Trump — and for America’s renaissance.

President Donald Trump asked Pentagon officials why America bears the burden of militarily defending Europe, said White House biographer Doug Wead, author of Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Fiona Hill wrote in 2015 that she “strongly disagree[d]” with sending lethal weapons to help Ukraine. She said she changed her mind after joining the Trump administration.

Fact check – CLAIM: Pete Buttigieg said he would send U.S. troops to Mexico to fight the drug cartels. VERDICT: Mostly true, though he said he would do so in partnership with Mexico.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) said during the fifth Democrat presidential primary debate that American veterans are “calling for an end” to the “regime change wars” that have persisted with support from the Washington, DC, national security establishment.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) openly brawled during the Democrat debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took a swipe at Israel at the Democrat debate in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday night, saying “we have to be rethinking who our allies are … and not continue to support brutal dictatorships.”

Gabbard: “Our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people.”Guilfoyle’s “fact check”: “Yep. Checks out.”

Joe Biden is rushing to assure voters of his credibility on foreign policy issues as the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump raises questions about his son’s wheeling and dealing overseas.

An NBC News report claims former national security adviser John Bolton recently “suggested” President Donald Trump’s so-called “financial interests” have led him to make foreign policy decisions that differ from those of the political establishment.

“This is the Clinton/Bush legacy of foreign policy of being the world’s police, going around toppling dictators we don’t like, helping support and prop up the ones that apparently we do,” she said, criticizing “unnecessary costly wars” in the Middle East. 

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) told Breitbart News on Thursday morning that Democrats no longer deserved to be called an “anti-war” party, because they simply opposed everything that President Donald Trump had done.

Former Vice President Joe Biden mocked President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in an interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, saying Trump had no idea what he was doing: “What’s the plan, Stan?” Biden asked.

Criticism is legitimate, but pro-Israel critics in particular ought to be far more careful about their condemnation of Trump’s policy in Syria.

Mitt Romney has been severely critical of Trump’s Syria policy. But in 2007, Romney had a somewhat different view of the Kurds.

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday in Ankara, Turkey, that the U.S. and Turkey had agreed to an immediate cease-fire in Syria that would allow Kurdish forces to withdraw from the border.

A column published in Foreign Policy this week makes that case that American universities should cut ties with the Confucius Institute, an education organization funded by the Chinese government.

China procures political compliance among American elites through development of financial relationships, explained Robert Spalding.

Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough discussed President Donald Trump’s track record with foreign policy. Scarborough said Trump does not use foreign policy to help the country. Instead, Scarborough argued you have to “follow the money” to understand