Francis P. Sempa

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  • Oct 11, 2025
    Since its birth in 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been attached to the United States by a figurative umbilical cord which has sustained its life well into...
  • Jul 12, 2025
    Whether by design or happenstance, President Donald Trump’s national security policy resembles the national security policy pursued by President Richard Nixon between 1969 and...
  • Jun 9, 2025
    Western media and some Western political leaders are celebrating what some are calling “Russia’s Pearl Harbor”—Ukraine’s dramatic...
  • Jun 5, 2025
    Great power involvement in Ukraine traces the path that led to World War I.  
  • May 13, 2025
    April 30, 2025 marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and America’s ultimate defeat in the Vietnam War. 
  • Apr 12, 2025
    President Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and...
  • Apr 7, 2025
    The Trump administration’s reciprocal tariffs have engendered stock markets to panic and U.S. trading partners and Trump’s domestic political opponents to complain about...