Patrick J. Buchanan's Blog, page 2

In the 1990s, the GOP Got a Hard Push to the Right

By Michael Bobelian – The Washington Post In the long run, history will validate Donald Trump���s stand on a border wall,��� Patrick Buchanan, the former Nixon and Reagan White House aide and Republican presidential candidate, wrote in 2019. ���Why? Because mass migration from the global South ��� is the real ...

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Putin’s Narrowing Options

[image error] Early in this war, Russia’s hawks talked openly of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons. That talk has begun anew. A desperate Vladimir Putin is a dangerous Vladimir Putin, and there are signs Putin’s situation in Ukraine may be becoming desperate. In the last week, the Russian army in ...

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How Liberal Elites Detest Middle America

[image error] The name of the game now is an old one: divide et impera, divide and conquer. Biden hopes to split “mainstream Republicans” off from “MAGA Republicans” … Indeed, the catalogue of sins and crimes Biden attributes to MAGA Republicans ��� extremism, violence, mendacity, authoritarianism ��� not only raises a question ...

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Winners and Losers From the Ukraine War

[image error] If Russia has been badly bled and Ukraine has suffered irretrievable losses of land and soldiers, who then are the winners? And who benefits from a continuation of this war, which will bring thousands more dead and wounded Russians and Ukrainians? “There never was a good war or a bad ...

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Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?

[image error] If Pelosi and Biden see the world struggle as between autocracy and democracy, a question arises: As leader of the democracy camp in this world struggle, why do we not insist that our allies in places like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, the UAE and Oman begin to hold ...

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How, When, Do We Come Together Again?

[image error] For a nation, a country, a people, a democracy to endure, there needs be a broad consensus of belief, culture, custom and politics. … We are a country whose people have a diminishing confidence in almost all of its institutions, from big business to the churches, universities and media. When ...

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Who Won the Taiwan War Games?

[image error] After 19 hours in Taiwan, the speaker flew to South Korea, where her reception was described as “cool.” President Yoon Suk Yeol, though at home in Seoul when Pelosi arrived, did not meet with her, but instead held a 40-minute phone conversation. South Korea, like its neighbors, is anxious not ...

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Is Taiwan’s Independence Worth War?

[image error] Why would we risk our own peace and security for Taiwan’s freedom and independence, when we would not risk our own peace and security for the freedom or independence of Hong Kong? When a man knows he is about to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully, ...

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China: Pelosi Trip to Taiwan a Provocation

[image error] If Pelosi postpones or cancels the visit, it will be seen as a U.S. climb-down in the face of Chinese indignation and protest, and an affront to our friends in Taiwan… Either way, relations between our countries will likely suffer, and perhaps seriously, if the Chinese opt for a military ...

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What Makes Biden So Pugnacious?

[image error] When Biden left for the day, Corn Pop was waiting for him, with three gang members, and holding a straight razor… Whatever the reality of that event, 60 years ago, Biden has issued, in his 18 months in office, a remarkable number of warnings and threats as to what he ...

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