Itinerary: Palestinians will get the pop-in treatment and little else from Biden trip
Campaign promises prove to be just that, as the administration prioritizes Israel-Gulf State security over dwindling prospects for peace.
Campaign promises prove to be just that, as the administration prioritizes Israel-Gulf State security over dwindling prospects for peace.
Rather than squeezed or sidelined, Turkey’s geopolitical standing looks a lot better than it did a few months ago.
Horrified by the invasion, centrist elites like Dmitri Trenin nonetheless sense the US is using the conflict to destroy their country.
MBS is playing hardball with the United States, and the White House is just letting him win. Why?
Biden tells us we are not enabling Ukraine to strike outside its borders, but we seem to be giving it every opportunity to do so.
Erdogan’s gamble is a game of high-stakes poker, given that Russia is as much a partner as it is a threat.
Though the grouping is unlikely to become a formal alliance it’s essentially a security bloc by stealth.
Whether intentional or not, his insistence that the US will respond militarily to any Chinese attack belies a dangerous shift.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
His proposal ‘would make Kyiv the largest yearly recipient of U.S. military aid of at least the past two decades.’
Absent renewal, the two parties risk ‘entering into a state of corrosive stalemate’ and a potential crisis in the Middle East.
Though Russia’s war on Ukraine is a tragedy for the world, one group is already benefiting from it: U.S. arms contractors.
Always nimble, the pro-war raconteur is again making arguments for preventative war, just more obliquely.
His ‘personal opinions’ about regime change and genocide at best confuse people, at worst, unwittingly provide cover for hardliners.
What the historic Negev Desert meeting this week says about the emerging power re-alignment in the region.
Instead it should be encouraging Beijing — through incentives, not punishments — to reduce its lean toward Russia.
The Kentucky Republican leaves classified briefing, says US in “much more difficult position now” than when the JCPOA was enforced.
If Washington is wise, it won’t punish its friends for acting in their own interests.
So let’s hope our leaders will have the foresight to begin the process of constructing a new, consensual security architecture in Europe.
Don’t repeat the shameful history of Georgia in 2008, where Washington made quasi-promises of military aid it had no intention of fulfilling.
Analysts scoffed when the EU’s Josep Borrell said ‘it must be China.’ But he’s onto something — and Biden should take notice.