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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.

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.
It defames, demonizes and attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state.
U.S. and European policymakers are setting precedents and teaching lessons. The rulers of China, Iran and North Korea are taking notes.
To the fashionably woke, Uyghur lives don’t matter.
Mitch McConnell is no Vladimir Putin, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or Xi Jinping.
Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates.
Eight years on, it’s clear that What Kerry and Obama saw as enlightened restraint, U.S. adversaries took as an invitation.
According to British historian Andrew Roberts, the “Revolution is a testament not to George III’s tyranny, which was fictitious, but to Americans’ yearning for autonomy.”
It leaves a lot to be desired.
America is threatened by neo-imperialists.