After ordering US troops to execute a regime change in Panama in 1989, President George H. W. Bush held a press conference at the precise moment the first US casualties were arriving on US soil.

The United States and Israel have launched a preemptive attack on Iran that is quickly spiraling into a full-blown regional war.

In President Donald Trump's "America First" mindset, allies are afterthoughts and previous US presidents were stupid. While Trump eased some angst in the Western world Wednesday by clarifying, finally, that he would not use force to take Greenland and then retreating from his latest tariff threat, he also twisted history and insulted nations the US has long considered to be friends.

In President Donald Trump's "America First" mindset, allies are afterthoughts and previous US presidents were stupid. While Trump eased some angst in the Western world Wednesday by clarifying, finally, that he would not use force to take Greenland and then retreating from his latest tariff threat, he also twisted history and insulted nations the US has long considered to be friends.