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Iran War

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

The collapse of national sovereignty in the Middle East

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

Houthis v. Saudi Arabia: Round 2. This time it's regional.

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Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

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Africa

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' in Spain?

Analysts accuse Morocco of unleashing undocumented migrants into Ceuta. Many note how Tel Aviv and Washington are seizing the moment with particular zeal.

Eisenhower Nasset Suez
Middle East

Will Trump meet his Suez moment & seize Hormuz deal on the table?

Robert Kagan
Washington Politics

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.
Europe

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

AFRICOM
Africa

Trump's quick hits allow for AFRICOM comeback on continent

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions
Europe

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

President Donald Trump sits on stage at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in February 2026.
QiOSK

Bored of Peace: Why is Trump undermining his own Gaza plan?

For a few fleeting days, there was a deal that would have disarmed Hamas and secured an Israeli withdrawal from the strip

El-Sayed overcomes $30 million AIPAC spend, wins Michigan primary

Iran, Ukraine wars depleted 'virtually all' US long-range missiles: Report

Navy retiring USS Fort Worth halfway through lifespan

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Asia-Pacific

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

China Russia navy

Thinking twice about that US-China superwar

Middle east

Eisenhower Nasset Suez

Will Trump meet his Suez moment & seize Hormuz deal on the table?

Oman and Iran appear close to a temporary arrangement to reopen the Strait — which Washington should welcome if it keeps traffic open and free

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.play icon

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Washington Politics

Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

John Thune Senate leadership

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

Africa

ceuta spain migrants

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' in Spain?

Trump's quick hits allow for AFRICOM comeback on continent

Will naming, shaming & sanctioning terror in Sudan stop bloodshed?

The new US push for peace in Libya is — surprise — about the oil

Latin America

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

What a US war with Cuba would really look like

'ISIS of the Western Hemisphere'? Latin America isn't buying it

Can Cuba outlast Marco Rubio?

Europe

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

north america

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

Is Trump finally burying the zombie US-Mexico-Canada trade pact?

Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

Military Industrial Complex

Trump wall street bell

Trump acquired at least $10 million in defense stocks last year

The president's portfolio kept accumulating shares in companies — like Palantir and Lockheed Martin — that were benefiting directly from his global military escalations

Media

Mark Levin Jack Keane Fox News

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Ukraine landmines

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

World War I propaganda poster

When Democrats were smearing socialists over war

Global Crises

Trump oil fields

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

The US risks depleting its emergency petroleum supplies even as it escalates with Iran