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Commentary By Patrick J. Buchanan

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April 5, 2022

Is Global 'Democracy' America's Mission? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"In the battle between democracy and autocracy, democracies are rising to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security," said President Joe Biden in his State of the Union address.

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April 1, 2022

Insult Diplomacy: Does Biden's Vilification of Putin Help? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Several weeks into the war in Ukraine, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if he agreed with those who call Russian President Vladimir Putin "a killer."

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March 29, 2022

Asia's Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden By Patrick J. Buchanan

While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president's attention.

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March 25, 2022

Is Victory for Ukraine Worth Risking Nuclear War? By Patrick J. Buchanan

During the 70 years that the Soviet Union existed, Ukraine was an integral part of the nation.

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March 22, 2022

Is Ukraine's Partition Zelenskyy's Fate? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"It's time to meet, time to talk ... time to restore territorial integrity ... for Ukraine," said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday.

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March 18, 2022

US Vital Interests Dictate an End to This War By Patrick J. Buchanan

Speaking to Congress, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked for many things from the United States.

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March 15, 2022

Is There a Peace Deal Putin and Zelensky Can Accept? By Ptrick J. Buchanan

In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.

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March 11, 2022

How Solid Are US War Guarantees? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When several NATO nations revealed that they had dozens of Russian-made MiG-29s, the idea arose to fly them to Ukraine and turn them over to Ukrainian pilots familiar with the MiGs.

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March 8, 2022

US Policy: Cheer Ukrainians On -- and Keep Us Out! By Patrick J. Buchanan

After Friday's NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies' failure to "close the skies" to Russian military aircraft gives "a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities."

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March 4, 2022

Is a Russia-NATO Clash Over Ukraine Ahead? by Patrick J. Buchanan

When Hungarian rebels arose in 1956 to overthrow the Communist regime imposed by Joseph Stalin, President Dwight Eisenhower refused to send U.S. forces to aid the Hungarians.

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March 1, 2022

Is Putin Considering Using Nukes on NATO? By Patrick J. Buchanan

From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin began this war with three strategic goals.

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February 25, 2022

Did We Provoke Putin's War in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Russia's Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We're not changing that.

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February 22, 2022

Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.

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February 18, 2022

Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan

When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: "There's not. That's a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another."

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February 15, 2022

The Richard Nixon His Loyalists Knew by Patrick J. Buchanan

Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other times their nation was so divided.

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February 11, 2022

Stress Test for a Fading Superpower By Patrick J. Buchanan

Because America entered both world wars of the 20th century last, while all the other great powers bled one another, and because we outlasted the Soviet Empire in the Cold War, America emerged, in the term of President George H.W. Bush, as "the last superpower."

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February 8, 2022

Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine By Patrick J. Buchanan

When the Union was fighting to preserve itself in the Civil War, the France of Napoleon III moved troops into Mexico, overthrew the regime of Benito Juarez, set up a monarchy and put Austrian Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the throne as Emperor of Mexico -- one month before Gettysburg.

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February 4, 2022

What Matters Most to Nations and Peoples? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border.

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February 1, 2022

NATO -- Strategic Asset or Liability? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Is the territorial integrity of Ukraine a cause worth America's fighting a war with Russia?

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January 28, 2022

Is Democracy Dying or America Disintegrating? by Patrick J. Buchanan

"What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people."