The Week That Matters (10-14 February, 2025)

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain hope for absolute security." Dwight Eisenhower

Trump: the 21st Century Eisenhower?

In April 1953, a month after Joseph Stalin died, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a speech. It was similar in tone to President Kennedy’s Peace Speech given 10 years later at the American University in 1963, but it was much more focused on the perils of excessive military spending.

The USA had just gone through a surpr…