Island Dweller writes in, and the Czar will comment along. Dread and Awful Majesty: Your humble subject has mentioned in the past the possible consequences of incompetence in foreign policy. He has also mentioned how the US government at the … Continue reading →
The great and powerful Eric Reasons send us a fantastic link by tying it to a dead ptarmigan and tossing it our way through the Castle window (which was closed): Thought I’d toss this your way after your excellent rant … Continue reading →
Uncharitably speaking, this is what might be called the Paula Abdul theory of foreign policy, after the famously forgiving former judge on American Idol. Never mind that you can’t sing, or that you’re letting yourself be played for a sucker: … Continue reading →
Gabriel Schoenfeld asks: But an interesting question to ask about the policy is: Why is the United States always the supplicant? We have enormous military and economic power. Yet no countries are begging for talks with us. Part of … Continue reading →
Read the whole thing, it’d have to be scissored into a couple dozen bits to get all the good stuff. Here’s the beginning. The first meeting of the loftily named U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission’s Civil Society Working Group took place … Continue reading →
And to return to an unpleasant point, Confucius must mention again that, in our insular egotism, Americans of goodwill tend to assume everyone is as anti-racist as we are. When nothing of the sort is the case. Not least in … Continue reading →
They apparently took down Copenhagen singlehandedly (about which I’m not displeased); but as FotG David Frum notes: And not only wrecked the talks, but did so with a conscious display of disdain toward the West generally and President Obama personally. … Continue reading →
He’s writing another letter, it seems, this time to Kim Jong-Il, the dictator of North Korea who’s likely an alcoholic, malignant narcissist. The Gormogons have obtained a draft copy. Don’t ask how, but I can say it has something to … Continue reading →
…the Gormogons pester their Œcumenical Volgi thusly: The Czar: Write more about foreign policy, узкоглазный, or I will have you shipped to Semipalatinsk with the rest of the shirkers! GorT: Yesterday you will write less about foreign policy; tomorrow you … Continue reading →
John Noonan writes: The AFP is reporting that despite pulling the ground based mid-course interceptor from Europe, the Russians remain unhappy with Noble Laureate Obama’s missile defense plans. Ivan is, of course, playing the classic Russian game here — push … Continue reading →
Tom Jocelyn at the Standard writes a good post today on the fact that “Obama’s Popularity Abroad Does Not Equal Gains for America.” In short: his personal popularity has not changed any of the complexes of problems with which President … Continue reading →
We’re selling out the Poles and Czechs to suck up to Bad Vlad. We are now on the clock for the next contemptuous gesture by Russia. And a Georgetown professor talks down to Burmese democrats. Thanks to Mike Goldfarb for … Continue reading →
Unfortunately on us. Prince Mikey G writes: Every time we try and capitulate, they slap us around some more. What fresh hell is this? Oh, well, Ahmadî-Nezhâd’s press advisor is claiming that we were offering to sell them some Boeing … Continue reading →
…made them feel secure enough to crack heads after the election fraud was revealed, says David Ignatius. One Iranian political figure has told a Western intermediary that the Obama administration may have unwittingly encouraged the regime’s power grab by sending … Continue reading →
Toilet-bowl-dictatorship edition! So, we reach out…and are slapped down—by Zimfreakingbabwe. Mr Mugabe told The Herald newspaper in Zimbabwe that nothing came out of his talks with Mr Carson – his first meeting with a US government official for many years. … Continue reading →
We got your “not meddling” right here, buddy. (Savor that Reuters headline, too.) Man, if only there had been some precedent that would have allowed them to foresee this eventuality.* Let your Œc. Vol. be the first to state, incidentally, … Continue reading →
So, President Obama went on YouTube and delivered a message to the leadership of Iran of how he wanted to get together and rap about all the false consciousness that’s harshing our bilateral mellow. Which, of course, led to Iran’s … Continue reading →
Your Volgi is having trouble rousing himself to write about the Obama Administration‘s apparent, asinine gambit of writing to the Russian government and offering to remove the missile-defense systems we’ve worked so hard to get installed in Poland and the … Continue reading →
