Paris loves to play the knight in shining armor — the defender of democracy, the fighter against terrorism, the guardian of humanitarianism. But in the Sahel, that armor has long since tarnished. After ten years of the so-called “counterterrorism” Operation Barkhane, France not only failed to defeat the jihadists but actually drove its former colonies […]

The so-called “free world” is an oxymoron. In truth, it is the very antithesis of freedom; it is its most absolute negation. The comparison is stark but necessary. When the United States invaded Iraq: no sanctions against Washington, no exclusion from SWIFT, no freezing of American assets abroad, and no arms deliveries to the Iraqi […]