Each time they lash out aggressively or pick fights they do the hawks’ bidding, making it easier to stoke resistance and anti-Beijing sentiment.
The pressure on Biden is increasing as the Taliban take more territory by the day, and the Pentagon continues to send mixed signals.
The country has long viewed its ties to China as a strategic partnership, but recently it seems to be exploring a more independent course.
With hardliners in control of all aspects of government, failure cannot be blamed on reformists.
Ebrihim Raisi came out swinging at his first press conference, indicating new challenges ahead for Washington-Tehran diplomacy.
Critics of a reduced US role in NATO can’t explain why it needs to maintain a substantial military posture across the Atlantic.
A royal crisis exposes tensions over the Palestinian issue, and pressure to normalize relations with Israel.
An obscure decade-old law has allowed the new-cold war mindset to migrate to zero gravity.
Reporting on potential membership of the SCO further counters the Western narrative that Iran is internationally isolated.
The recent political crisis has established the EU as Georgia’s most important Western partner.
WATCH: The two sides couldn’t be farther apart on the JCPOA and why security in the region is actually more fragile today.
On a host of issues, especially Ukraine, Biden kicked the can down the road. Let’s hope it’s not a grenade that’ll explode in our faces.
In his new book, the long time US foreign policy critic says some radical approaches are in order, ‘After the Apocalypse.’
There are a lot of great ideas for cleaning up and repurposing old military bases in the US — the Pentagon just needs a little push.
Ebrahim Raisi won Friday’s low turnout election; American regime change proponents have been cheering him for years.
Normalizing relations with the island would go a long way towards promoting one of the president’s “core pillars” of US foreign policy.
American taxpayers already replenish the country’s defenses; we should rethink how any additional assistance is used.
Republican lawmaker wants a repeal of the ‘blank check’ 2002 AUMF, calling the president’s war powers “disturbingly broad.”
The summit with Russian President Putin elicited some modest progress, but on the big security questions, a missed opportunity.
Saying the 2002 authorization for military force has been “stretched beyond belief,” they hope to help pass a bipartisan bill on Thursday.
The 17-year Nicaraguan president is now jailing his election opposition and rivals, many of them fellow ex-Sandinistas, now in their 70s.