by Michael Wilkerson | Aug 26, 2026 | Armed Forces, Banks, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Iran, Markets, Monetary System, NATO, Oil, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Tariffs, Trade, Trump Administration, USA, War
The United States has levied various forms of economic sanctions on Iran for the better part of fifty years. They have never achieved their full objectives. With the US entering its seventh month of war with Iran, the Trump administration has declared an Economic...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 21, 2026 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, China, Geopolitics, Historical, Iran, Russia, USA, War
Consider the Iran War in the context of US military involvement in Vietnam. The Vietnamese regular army and Viet Cong guerrillas were able to keep fighting long after the US had effectively destroyed (by bombing) most all formal military and industrial infrastructure...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 6, 2026 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, Economy, Energy, Finance, Geopolitics, Germany, Gold, Healthcare, Historical, Inflation, Iran, Monetary System, Oil, Politics, Trump Administration, USA, War
A wartime economy is no longer a hypothetical future scenario to contemplate. It has already arrived. This week, with U.S. forces launching what the Trump administration labeled “Epic Fury” against Iran, the question is no longer whether war will affect markets and...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 23, 2024 | Africa, Armed Forces, Blog Articles, China, Finance, Geopolitics, Politics, USA, War
Working in Africa through much of the past decade, I saw signs of Chinese imperialism everywhere. The investment company I ran, mostly funded by US and Canadian investors, would face off against CCP-backed entities in business dealings and financing transactions. This...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 23, 2024 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Inflation, Monetary System, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, USA, War
While the United States is ostensibly not at war with anyone, our government is spending taxpayers’ money as if it were. This year, the budget for the U.S. Department of Defense is $844 billion. The U.S. spends nearly three times more on defense than does China and...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 16, 2024 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Geopolitics, Iran, Politics, USA, War
U.S. bombings of Yemen required Congressional approval Whether or not the US military should have bombed sixteen target sites in Yemen in response to repeated Houthi-led drone attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea is a topic worthy of debate. This is all the more...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 20, 2023 | Antichrist, Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Hamas, Iran, Islam, Israel, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Terrorism, USA, War
Image credit: © Oliver Schopf, www.oliverschopf.com Iran’s official policy is the elimination of the Jewish state of Israel, and the hard-liners are determined to develop nuclear weapons capabilities to achieve it. The United States needs to reconsider its approach to...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 14, 2023 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, Inflation, Politics, USA, War
This month marks the sixtieth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. Is it possible that in the second decade of the twenty-first century, America is still paying the price for this unresolved national crime from six decades...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 2, 2023 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Russia, Sanctions, USA, War
The Biden administration has fallen into a dangerous trap. While some of the catastrophes and pits fallen into by the Biden administration have been self-made, this particular trap has been intentionally laid by America’s primary geopolitical and economic adversary....
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 19, 2023 | Africa, Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Russia, Sanctions, USA, War
The United States needs to get serious about the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its primary geopolitical tool, the BRI. This week China hosts its third international conference focused on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the development...
by Michael Wilkerson | Oct 15, 2023 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Finance, Hamas, Iran, Islam, Israel, Politics, Sanctions, Terrorism, USA, War
In the summer of 1914, none of the Great Powers realized that they were sleepwalking towards disaster. A singular regional event, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a radicalized Serbian nationalist, would prove to be the proverbial spark...
by Michael Wilkerson | Sep 29, 2023 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Finance, Inflation, Politics, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
The U.S. Federal government appears to be headed towards a shutdown on Sunday. Payrolls will be missed, employees with be furloughed, recriminations will abound. Observers will scratch their heads and ask, how can this much disfunction exist in the government of the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Apr 4, 2023 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, BRICS, China, Covid-19, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Sanctions, Tariffs, Ukraine, USA, War
After one year, ten increasingly stringent rounds, and over 14,500 specific sanctions imposed on Russian individuals, companies, and institutions, the U.S. led sanctions regime appears to be hurting Western economic and geostrategic interests as much or more than...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 3, 2023 | Africa, Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine, War
Following the launch of Russia’s “special military operation” and invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Joe Biden and EU leaders confidently asserted that Western sanctions would bring the Russian economy to its knees. A primary stated objective of sanctions was...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 14, 2023 | Armed Forces, Banks, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, CBDCs, Covid-19, Crypto, Finance, Inflation, Monetary System, Politics, USA
Like many governments around the world, the Biden administration seems determined to limit Americans’ monetary freedom by taxing it away, and by manipulating and controlling how they store and spend their money. Here are a few examples of how this is happening. Let’s...
by Michael Wilkerson | Feb 14, 2023 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Finance, Politics, Sanctions, Ukraine, USA, War
I watch a lot of French news and other media in my ongoing and laborious attempt to learn a new language at midlife. I’ve learned something interesting in the process. While France and the United States are both democracies that ostensibly support freedom of speech,...
by Michael Wilkerson | Jan 5, 2023 | Africa, Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, BRICS, China, Energy, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Sanctions, Stormwall Book, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
2022 was a year of surprises: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, persistent inflation fueled by energy costs, the collapse of FTX and crypto markets, the revelations of the Twitter Files, and one of the worst equity markets in recent history, to name but a few. 2023 is...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 30, 2022 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Finance, Inflation, Politics, Stormwall Book, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
While most Americans were busy preparing for holidays with family and friends, the retiring leaders of the Senate and House spent their final days before Christmas wrangling through Congress the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023. With the clock...
by Michael Wilkerson | Dec 16, 2022 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Energy, Politics, Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
With each passing day, week, and month, the U.S. is being drawn further and further into direct military conflict with Russia. We’re already engaged in a proxy war; and we are now tempting the dogs of war to slip off the leash well beyond our ability to control them....
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 10, 2022 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, Energy, Sanctions, Ukraine, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
While I wish it were otherwise, the unpleasant fact is that Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia. The Biden administration and the leaders of the UK and the European Union know this full well. The question is, how much longer will they persist in deceiving the...
by Michael Wilkerson | Mar 25, 2022 | Armed Forces, Biden Administration, Blog Articles, China, Stormwall Book, USA, War, Why America Matters Book
Image credit: Shutterstock We are now in the fourth week of war in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine after months of preparations and years of warnings, yet the world still seemed surprised. Western leaders and media have declared Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin...
by Michael Wilkerson | Nov 12, 2021 | Armed Forces, Blog Articles, USA, Veterans Day
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month symbolically marked the end of World War I, the “war to end all wars,” in 1918. That description turned out to be not at all accurate. Nonetheless, Veterans Day in the United States, Armistice Day or...