Putin Plays a Game of Thrones
And What We Don’t Know About Islam May Kill Us

On this week’s episode of Forward Observers, Clifford D. May, the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the conversation with AEI’s Rebecca Burgess to talk about recent terror plots that British intelligence uncovered and the threats that we still face. Do our enemies understand us better then we understand them? In order to delegitimize and defeat totalitarian philosophies, we need to understand them first.

And then Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t thrilled about plummeting oil prices. How is cheaper energy going to disrupt global economies and international relations? As the Free Beacon’s Daniel Wiser writes, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela will all face budget deficits, and their economies are already in bad shape.