William Stroock

‘We shall suspend trade with the United States until the Taiwan situation reaches an equitable outcome,’ tweeted official Chinese government accounts and Chinese state media at 4 AM, Washington time. Millions of Chinese citizen and bot accounts retweeted and posted the message to other social media. In this way the Chinese government amplified its message to the world and the American people, bypassing the American media altogether.

Robert Kagan has taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs (where else?) to argue for American internationalism. The author of several books, Kagan is a staunch advocate for an interventionist American foreign policy. He earned degrees from Yale and Harvard, and a doctorate from American University in Washington D.C. His academic credentials are clearly without question.

By William Stroock As the fateful day drew to a close, the exhausted soldiers of the German 25th and 82nd Reserve Divisions huddled in their trenches. It was May 30, 1918, and for the past two days the Germans had battled elements of the American 1st Division for control of the small village of Cantigny and its environs. Before them the virgin ground had been churned, the town shot up, and its cemetery turned into a ghoulish battlefield of broken headstones and protruding coffins.