Op-Ed

Leadership is not about titles or rank, but about listening, learning, and leading with strength, humility, and respect so your people can thrive.

Watching a real estate developer freelance foreign policy with a Kremlin insider felt less like statecraft and more like witnessing a slow-motion warning flare for anyone who still expects competence in American diplomacy.

If the American Dream is dying, it is because a self-anointed New Nobility has quietly rigged the system to fatten its portfolios while telling the rest of us to admire the yacht.

A strong and principled military depends on service members who possess the discipline to follow lawful orders and the moral courage to challenge those that violate the values they are sworn to defend.

The so-called Trump peace plan is not a roadmap to stability but an insult to Ukrainians and Europeans alike, a political stunt that hands Putin a strategic win while sidelining real diplomacy in favor of photo-op victory laps.

Mr. Trump has treated his solemn oath as a disposable campaign slogan, shredding constitutional norms and moral standards while his enablers in Congress cower in silence before his vengeful whims.

As military professionals, we have a duty to question and, when necessary, refuse orders that violate law, morality, or basic safety, because our oath is to the Constitution and the principles it defends, not to blind obedience.

America lost its footing when unrestrained corporate power, partisan fearmongering, and a billionaire-backed political machine hollowed out the institutions meant to protect the public, clearing a path for a leader who embodies the consequences of that long decline.

If we want to heal a fractured nation, we must start by facing the man in the mirror and accepting the hard truth that the blame we’re so quick to cast on others often belongs to us.

When accountability breaks down, the integrity of our institutions erodes, our adversaries gain opportunity, and the security of the nation itself is placed at risk.

If the United States is serious about protecting children and national security, it must draw a hard statutory line that bars anyone who moved comfortably in Jeffrey Epstein’s world, including Donald Trump, from ever again holding federal office.

We are posturing for a fight in Venezuela without a coherent strategy, bleeding scarce combat power and credibility in pursuit of a mission that serves politics more than the security of the American people.