The week opened with six Democratic lawmakers delivering a scripted warning to American service members about refusing “illegal orders.” They presented it with the kind of confident detachment that often defines Washington, where speaking about military judgment is far easier than living with its consequences. Their message did not clarify the law or strengthen the institution. It inserted hesitation into a chain of command that functions only when clarity is absolute. While

The newest political performance from Washington features six Democratic lawmakers staring solemnly into a camera and telling active duty service members that they can refuse illegal orders. The message pretends to be a constitutional reminder, but anyone who has actually served in the national security world knows what it really is. It is an insinuation masked as guidance, a prewritten excuse for the next political fight, and a cowardly attempt to outsource partisan anxiety

Washington has spent over ten years being lectured by the same class of foreign policy caretakers who confuse timidity with wisdom. They warned that pressuring Maduro would spark chaos, that confronting a narcostate would destabilize the region, that any assertive move by the United States would summon ghosts from a century ago. They sold fear as strategy. They were wrong every time. And the loudest of them, Juan González, was a political adviser elevated into a national secu

Mexico should be rich beyond measure. It has oil, minerals, industry, farmland, and direct access to the largest market in the world. Its people are industrious, proud, and endlessly creative. Yet under President Claudia Sheinbaum and her Morena government, the nation is being drained by ideology, incompetence, and corruption disguised as reform. The problem is not the people. It is the leadership. The government preaches sovereignty and equality while managing the country li

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