Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. What is the point of playing Russian roulette – with Russia? As the Biden administration fades into oblivion, among its last decisions has been to allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with U.S.-made...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In my morning news feed from the New York Times came this article on Tulsi Gabbard: How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to be the director of...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I woke to this disconcerting story from CNN: President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use powerful long-range US weapons deep inside Russia. Why now? Biden is a lame duck president, shuffling out the...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been nominated as Director of National Intelligence by President-elect Donald Trump. The so-called intelligence community is up in arms about this. That is a...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Trump and the war hawks. Or war sluts. Or war pigs. I thought about all three of these. Then I thought: Why insult hawks, sluts, or pigs? Donald Trump is forming his cabinet by rounding up the usual...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.  Originally posted for Veterans Day in 2020. I come from a family of veterans.  My father and his two brothers served in the military during World War II.  My mother’s brother (Uncle Freddy) fought at...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. What do you do with a president (and of course he's just reading a script given to him) who says he "fully, fully, fully" supports Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza, gobbles up the West Bank, invades...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. From my CNN feed this morning: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country faces war on seven fronts and called them the “enemies of civilization.” Heavy Israeli airstrikes pounded southern...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Ninety-nine American healthcare workers who volunteered to work in Gaza and who’ve witnessed the effects of the Israeli onslaught there suggest that nearly 120,000 Palestinians are already dead. That huge...

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Whether they like it or not (and they seem very much to like it), the Democratic Party has become America’s war party. This is especially true with respect to Ukraine. Zelensky has won another $7.9 billion in...