The following remarks were delivered at a conference marking the 25th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Serbia: "The 1999 Red-Green Bombing Terror against Serbia," held on March 20, 2024, at the Bundestag in Berlin hosted by MdB Dr. Rainer Rothfuß and...
James George Jatras
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Extinction Itself
by James George Jatras | Sep 6, 2023 | Featured Articles
A version of this presentation was given to the Ron Paul Institute's Scholars Seminar on Sept. 1st in Washington, DC.Today it’s hard for anyone under the age of 50 to appreciate how genuine and pervasive was fear of a nuclear holocaust during the Cold War between the...
Is Russian Restraint Averting the Risk of Nuclear War – or Inviting It?
by James George Jatras | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Among realists who don't accept the Kiew siegt an allen Fronten! narrative it is widely assumed that Russia will soon begin, perhaps in dramatic and decisive fashion, a winter offensive. This would come just as Kiev is hitting "empty" on all key manpower and materiel...
It’s Even Later than You Thought
by James George Jatras | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
Delivered to the 2022 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar, Sept. 2nd 2022, Washington, DC.Allow me to say at the outset how pleased and not a little surprised I was to be invited to address this seminar for the second year in a row. Pleased, because I can’t think of a better...
It’s Later than You Think
by James George Jatras | Sep 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
Remarks delivered to the Ron Paul Institute Student Seminar, September 3, 2021 I accepted the invitation to speak with you today only with great trepidation. This was for at least three reasons. The first is that, both for self-protection in an increasingly unfree...
Before the Bidens ‘Did’ Ukraine, There Was Iraq – and Serbia
by James George Jatras | Oct 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
The United States approaches the November 2020 election with growing apprehension, even dread. Among the possibilities: - Protracted uncertainty about the presidential contest. Think Florida 2000 but with several states’ results unresolved for weeks or even months...
Trump Will Be Impeached. The Stupid Party Says, ‘Bring It On!’
by James George Jatras | Jun 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s calculated handoff of the “Get Trump” portfolio to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, two things are evident. First, President Donald J. Trump is virtually certain to be impeached. That’s manifest despite doddering House...
I’m Jumping Off the Trump Train: Assange Was the Last Straw
by James George Jatras | Apr 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
On March 6, 2016, this Deplorable issued a statement formally endorsing Donald J. Trump for the presidency of the United State. I now hereby withdraw that endorsement. No doubt this declaration from your Working Boy will be greeted with the same deafening indifference...
Did Someone Slip Donald Trump Some Kind of Political Viagra?
by James George Jatras | Dec 22, 2018 | Featured Articles
This has been an extraordinary week. After two years of getting rolled by the Washington establishment, it seems that President Donald Trump woke up and suddenly realized, “Hey – I’m the president! I have the legal authority to do stuff!” - He has announced his order...
‘New World Order’ Wine Pompoured into a Pro-‘Sovereignty’ Rhetorical Bottle
by James George Jatras | Dec 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began his December 4 speech in Brussels at the German Marshall Fund with “a well-deserved tribute to America’s 41st president, George Herbert Walker Bush,” whom he praised as “an unyielding champion of freedom around the world.” It was...
The ‘America Last’ Express Hurtles On: Saudi Arabia, INF, Ukraine
by James George Jatras | Dec 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
As the façade of 2016 Candidate Donald Trump’s promised “America First” continues to crumble away, the baked-into-the-cake pathologies of the foreign and security policy “experts” who monopolize President Trump’s administration plunge forward along their predetermined...
Sayonara, ‘America First’! We Hardly Knew Ye!
by James George Jatras | Dec 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s cancellation of his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Buenos Aires G20 is another sign of the now almost certain demise of his declared “America First” agenda – and perhaps of his presidency. Supposedly decided in...
Britain on the Leash with the United States – But at Which End?
by James George Jatras | Oct 13, 2018 | Featured Articles
The “special relationship” between the United States and the United Kingdom is often assumed to be one where the once-great, sophisticated Brits are subordinate to the upstart, uncouth Yanks.Iconic of this assumption is the mocking of former prime minister Tony Blair...
Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad National Security Team
by James George Jatras | Oct 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
Gareth Porter paints a dismal picture. Time and again, President Donald Trump indicates he wants to do the right thing: get out Afghanistan, get out of Syria, get out of South Korea. Every time, his national security team – the people he appointed – sends him to “the...
Will Someone in Washington Play the Ace of Spades before November?
by James George Jatras | Sep 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
With regard to American foreign and security policy, President Donald Trump presents a paradox. Aside from some harsh bluster (“fire and fury” directed towards Pyongyang in the lead-up to an unprecedented US-North Korea summit), Trump generally seems to want more...
Have You Committed Your Three Felonies Today?
by James George Jatras | Aug 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
Several years ago the Commonwealth of Virginia enacted a law restricting firearms purchases to one per month. This was intended to discourage smuggling of weapons to urban areas outside Virginia with tight gun control laws and (unsurprisingly) high homicide rates. The...
There Will Be No American-Russian Alliance Against China
by James George Jatras | Aug 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Since 1991 and the formal end of the first Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the world has experienced an American “unipolar moment” as the bipartisan US policy establishment sought to consolidate and perpetuate its hegemonic control over the...
When Washington Think Tanks Call for ‘Action’ in the Balkans, Expect Trouble
by James George Jatras | May 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
Any time two prestige think tanks in Washington issue a report calling for US “action” in any region of the world, hold onto your hat – you can be sure that trouble is a-brewing. That’s doubly true if the call relates to the Balkans, the place where in the 1990s the...
Did the West Just Lose World War III by Forfeit?
by James George Jatras | Apr 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the fall of the year 1480, at a point not far from Moscow, two armies faced each other on the opposite banks of the Ugra River.On the one side were the forces of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, whose ruler, Grand Prince Ivan III (known as “the Great” and the “gatherer...
Syrian Strikes are ‘Legal’ – But Only According to the ‘Law of the Jungle’
by James George Jatras | Apr 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
The full extent of the damage to international peace and security caused by the US-led Syrian strikes will take some time to become clear. But its impact on the very concept of legality in international affairs is already evident.Simply put, the most powerful county...
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