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Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May

Clifford D. May is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a columnist for The Washington Times and host of the “Foreign Podicy” podcast.

It threatens to blackball Sweden and Finland.
Finland and Sweden now want to join the club.
The clerical regime is insisting the U.S. lift its designation of the IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Biden is not capitulating.
If you want to achieve peace in a world where Russia and China are allied against democracy, you must do it through strength.
It will require an unusually wise and courageous leader to walk the strategic tightrope and choose the least-bad policy options.
The rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran do not want Israelis to submit. They want them to perish. “Death to Israel!” is a slogan meant to be taken both literally and seriously.
Unless we mobilize, expect no good outcome.
And the urgent need to re-establish deterrence.
McDonald’s entered Russia knowing Putin was a tyrant. The idea that their presence there would be salutary has proven wrong. Shouldn’t this recognition have implications for our relations with China and Iran?
The Biden administration’s behavior has been shameful and damaging: It is proving the United States to be harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.
A strategy to contain him should have been implemented years ago.
Western elites prefer not to fight authoritarianism.