Blue State Blues: Why Supporting Israel Is Defending ‘America First’
Support for Israel is an expression of, not a contradiction of, American patriotism. “America First” includes support for Israel, or it is not American at all.

Support for Israel is an expression of, not a contradiction of, American patriotism. “America First” includes support for Israel, or it is not American at all.

Former Vice President Mike Pence gave a full-throated condemnation of Republican populism on Wednesday and implored Republicans to embrace traditional conservatism over the rising movement he likens to progressivism on the left.

Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul, certainly the worst of President Joe Biden’s unforced errors in foreign policy and arguably among the worst in the history of the American presidency.

First Lady Jill Biden will skip Israel on her current trip to the Middle East and North Africa, visiting Jordan and Egypt to “strengthen our relationships” with allies in the region but flying over the country between them.

A new report indicates that U.S. military officials are now walking back claims that a recent drone strike killed an al-Qaeda terrorist.

President Joe Biden continues to boast, without evidence, that he has strengthened relations with U.S. allies, but Saudi Arabia has different ideas, planning a meeting with the Palestinian terror group Hamas on Sunday.

Far from repairing relations with U.S. allies — relations that Trump changed, but strengthened — Biden has hurt them.

Iran is staging an attack on all fronts against Israel through its terrorist proxies, taking advantage of Israel’s internal dissent and the Biden administration’s attempt to isolate the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Biden is practically inviting China to impose a peace deal in Europe, much as Obama invited Russia back into the Middle East.

ROCHESTER, New Hampshire – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared a plan Wednesday to stop spending money in Ukraine and “reprioritize” foreign policy focus to take on China economically and the Mexican drug cartels militarily, using “airstrikes, drone strikes” and “special forces” to create “shock and awe.”

Australia’s incoming ambassador to the United States, left-wing former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, has lectured America to stop throwing foreign allies “under a bus” on trade and economic issues in Asia.

Former President Donald Trump pledged that “America’s Golden Age is just ahead” during his 2024 Presidential campaign announcement at his lavish Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday.

State Sen. Tom Barrett (R-MI), the Republican nominee to represent Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, linked Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) endorsement of his opponent Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) to what he said was a shared obsession with foreign military operations held by both Cheney and Slotkin.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” that President Joe Biden behaves “like a scared sixth-grade girl” on foreign policy.

Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, the Conservative MPs vying to replace Boris Johnson, undermining their tough posturing on foreign policy on Thursday.

The United States has approved a $3.05 billion sale of Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia in the wake of President Joe Biden’s visit to the country.

A recent Fox News poll found that a majority of American voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on key issues such as inflation, border security, crime, foreign policy, and preserving democracy.

President Joe Biden’s failing foreign policy can be likened to a chess player who always chooses the black pieces: he is never seeking to win, but rather tries to play for a draw, at best, every time.

Pompeo touted the Trump administration’s foreign policy record at CPAC and contrasted it to that of the Biden administration’s first 14 months.

A video unearthed from 2001 by the Republican National Committee’s research team revealed then-Senator Biden praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for embracing the West, heralding his actions as comparable to Peter the Great.

Ukrainian participation in NATO should be “off the table,” according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who warned that President Joe Biden had to be willing to “take the political heat” of acceding to the reality that NATO will never allow Ukraine to join — thus allaying Russia’s main concern — and potentiality averting a war that would not accomplish any American national security objectives.

A foreign journalist challenged White House press secretary Jen Psaki Thursday to explain whether “America is back,” given the Biden administration’s many foreign policy failures.

Far worse than advancing bad policies, the Biden administration is acting with breathtaking incompetence in a manner that has infected the entirety of United States diplomacy.

Only 33 percent of adult citizens approved of Joe Biden’s job performance, a record low for the president in a Wednesday Quinnipiac poll.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that he’s worried about trouble abroad in 2022, even though we’ve “had an easy time in foreign policy over the last few years, and we’ve been blessed by not having major
President Joe Biden on Thursday night promised the U.S. stands behind Taiwan’s defense and had a commitment to militarily support the island China claims for itself. The White House was forced to hastily issue a different, contradictory statement before the evening was out.

President Joe Biden is bowing to the radical left and attempting to open a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to divide the city and reverse President Donald Trump’s major foreign policy achievement of recognizing Israeli sovereignty there.

To restore our national security, we need to start over. And the first step must be to remove the leaders who brought us here.

Thursday was “one of the worst days in American history,” Larry Elder said in reference to the suicide bombing attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that the Biden administration essentially advised Americans in Afghanistan to make a dangerous journey to Kabul if they hope to receive the U.S. government’s assistance in evacuating the failed state.

Joe Biden’s veneer of foreign policy expertise has collapsed given his handling of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Sean Spicer said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a request by U.S. President Joe Biden to allow an American military presence in countries near Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Erik Prince said Taiwan should procure nuclear weapons as a deterrence against China following the Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.

“We’re focusing on wokeness in our military as supposed to readiness,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak while describing the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as a “disaster.”

U.S. allies are fuming at President Joe Biden’s failure to defend Afghanistan from the Taliban, wondering if the country’s rapid collapse, and Biden’s refusal to consult other countries before withdrawal, means America’s decline as a world power.

Before the withdrawal, the U.S. had a major base in a country that bordered China; now it will not. So don’t pretend pulling out will help.

A Friday poll indicates only 44 percent of likely U.S. voters believe President Joe Biden’s European tour was successful.

Members of the White House press corps pressed National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday on whether President Joe Biden would tell foreign leaders that former President Donald Trump’s policies were an “anomaly.”

Biden’s response shifted over time, especially after Israel told Biden’s staff that they had no idea what they were talking about.

The Israeli government reportedly told the Biden administration Wednesday that its public pressure on Israel to seek a ceasefire is encouraging Palestinian terrorists to continue their attacks, making it harder to accept a ceasefire, and prolonging the war.
