Although it’s giving transatlantic elites the vapours, the Trump Administration’s new National Security Strategy has much to commend it, writes The American Conservative’s Eldar Mamedov. “It grounds American foreign policy in the unvarnished realities of power, risk, and strategic focus,” Mamedov writes. In practice, this likely will mean expeditiously ending the war in Ukraine to restore strategic equilibrium with Russia, halting further NATO expansion, and pushing America’s European allies to stand on their own two feet.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
