Foreign Policy & National Security

By Judd Dunning For twenty years Americans have lived under the ghost of Iraq. Every foreign-policy decision, every strike, every assertion of deterrence is instantly measured against that memory: “another forever war.” So when President Donald J. Trump announced major combat operations against Iran — Operation Epic Fury — the political class reached for the familiar script before the smoke even cleared: regime change, occupation, Iraq 2.0. But history does not repeat itself

By Judd Dunning Venezuelans are cheering in the streets as a dark criminal repressive regime finally begins to lose control. What is unfolding is not a routine political transition. It is the exposure and disruption of a failed state that crossed a clear legal and moral line—transforming from authoritarian governance into an organized criminal enterprise operating under the cover of sovereignty. Venezuela did not collapse suddenly. It was intentionally collapsed through a lon

By Judd Dunning As we head into 2026, under Trump and a renewed America, moral clarity matters again. This modern brand of fashionable, bandwagon antisemitism is rooted in a dull haze of dangerous historical stupidity and anti-meritocratic delusion. Studied people, some of the world’s wisest, rose in the world due to a perfect mixture of intelligence backed by moral codes, and they shined. For that, they have always been hated. They challenged everything and suffered greatly.