We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our program provided that they are ready also to talk about the sanctions because sanctions, as we call it, illegal sanctions, those sanctions have to be also on the table.

One cannot accept the notion that Iran has to do certain things without the other side committing itself to do their share.

So it has to be a give and take. That is what compromise is all about.

Since January 15, at least 163 U.S. C-17 and C-5 heavy airlift flights have moved from the U.S. and Japan to the Middle East via Europe.

Main destinations:
Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan – 98 flights
Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia – 20
Al Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait – 18

Source: ArmchairAdml

The big mistake was not to provide more support earlier to Ukraine.

We should have started in 2014.

If we had done that, I believe the Ukrainians would control more of their territory today, and perhaps we might even have prevented the full-scale invasion if we had armed and trained them in the years between 2014 and the invasion in 2022.

We have laws on the books that prohibit the United States from providing weapons in instances of gross human rights violations — and what people are seeing is this entire argument for democracy fall apart.

We have to walk the walk. We can’t let those commitments go.

Holding our friends accountable is just as important as holding adversaries accountable, because it shows that we are pledging our fidelity to a standard — a value of human dignity.

You are starting to see the ascent of the right, even in places like Munich. Marco Rubio’s speech was a pure appeal to “Western culture.”

My favorite part was when he said that American cowboys came from Spain — I believe Mexicans and the descendants of enslaved African peoples would like to have a word on that.