From the Wall Street Journal – The Prime Minister’s Liberal Democratic Party will have a majority on its own in a rebuke to Beijing. Ms. Takaichi comes out of the LDP’s conservative, pro-American wing. She favors more defense spending, which is urgently needed given China’s vast military buildup. So far she has managed President Trump’s … Read more
The co-author of this excellent column – my opinion – also has an excellent interview which I’ve posted below the excerpted column. In the interview Noa Tishby gives a good summary of antisemism and how it has morphed from one reason to another since the Romans. As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January … Read more
A long front page article from last week. The Continent’s dependence on America runs deep and belies attempts to replace it with new alliances The reliance puts Europe at a disadvantage in a world of great power competition and weakens its hand in negotiations with Trump on everything from trade to Greenland and Ukraine. For … Read more
Good thing he’s Treasury Secretary. Very worth watching the whole interview. Killler line at about 2 minutes – “Since 1980 the US has spent 22 trillion dollars more on defense than the entire rest of NATO has.”
Amos Hochstein – smart guy.