In Lebanon, each new cease-fire is met with blind optimism — as if it hails the end of a conflict instead of what it actually is: an admission ticket to the next war.
Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. The post Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) “Farthest fall the virtuous with feet of clay.” The nationalist former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, and her husband, Scottish National Party CEO Peter Murrell, dominated Scottish politics for a decade and arguably came close to breaking up Britain. Their project ended in ignominy Monday, as Murrell was led in handcuffs from the High Court of…Open
American adversaries have learned how to outlast the U.S. The post Is the U.S. Capable of Being Cautious About Foreign Interventions? appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Is the U.S. Capable of Being Cautious About Foreign Interventions? American adversaries have learned how to outlast the U.S. (Photo by Cpl. Francisco J. Diaz Jr./U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images) The United States loves to remember the Second World War and the Gulf War, because they resulted in the United States smashing the huge conventional armies of diabolical adversaries such as Adolf Hitler, the Imperial Japanese, and the former American ally Saddam Hussein. Yet most recent U.S. wars haven’t gone all that well. Although the outcome of the Korean War against countries using conventional…Open
The “deal or war” choice is a false binary—and a good thing too. The post Trump Doesn’t Need a Big Iran Deal appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump Doesn’t Need a Big Iran Deal The “deal or war” choice is a false binary—and a good thing too. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump has always said he’d rather make a deal than a war with Iran, but that he wouldn’t hesitate to do the latter if needed. Sure enough, when he failed to get a nuclear deal last year, Trump bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. And when a grand bargain still wasn’t forthcoming in late February, he and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a joint, large-scale war against Iran that swiftly degenerated into a…Open
Nigel Farage’s anti-immigrant, populist agenda has helped his Reform U.K. Party emerge from the fringe of British politics. But it faces an uphill climb to win power.
China’s tobacco monopoly has become so financially vital to the government that even its powerful leader has failed to curb the country’s smoking habit.