Angus King: “Abraham Lincoln once said if he was given an hour to split a cord of wood, he would spend the first 15 minutes…”

At the end of the day, this deal from the White House is an attempt to boost their short-term political prospects at the true cost of the American people.

Deterrence works only if it’s credible, and the actions of the administration over the past two years — in spite of all the bluster about lethality and testosterone — have severely compromised that credibility, and with it, the safety and…

The problem of escalating instability, unfortunately, is not confined to Europe’s eastern frontier. The danger of war between America’s autocratic adversaries and our democratic allies is rising around the world for one simple, troubling…

The grave danger we now face is that the current administration has undermined both prongs of deterrence strategy in different theaters — a lack of will in Ukraine and a lack of capacity in Iran.