What Trump and Biden get wrong about North Korea
The most recent presidential debate didn’t inspire confidence that the next US administration will bring us closer to peace with North Korea.
The most recent presidential debate didn’t inspire confidence that the next US administration will bring us closer to peace with North Korea.
While it’s likely there will be no diplomatic movement with North Korea before January, 2021, whomever wins the election will have to cast aside ideas that are continuously tried and have consistently failed.
With the Trump administration escalating tensions once again with its snapback scheme, it’s worth trying to figure out just what Tehran wants.
The blockade on Qatar is interfering with Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign on Iran, but his anti-Iran Saudi and Emirati partners won’t budge
It’s a fairly simple equation: If there were no U.S. troops in Afghanistan, there would be no Russian bounties on them.
Trump’s not-so-well thought out plan to reach a deal with the Iranians wasn’t going to work anyway but his top foreign policy advisers made sure of it.
There’s a more constructive way forward that doesn’t involve the military or incendiary rhetoric.
In short, John Bolton is the worst of both foreign policy worlds: nihilistically nationalistic in his ends, interventionist in his means.
Team Trump’s show of force this week against the ICC was a metaphor for its disdain for international law and institutions.
Once the U.S. military is deployed somewhere around the world, the Blob is gonna work pretty hard to prevent you from bringing them back.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent comment about Canadians watching what’s happening in the US with “horror and consternation” should be a big wake up call.
Those who predicted Iran would turn toward hardliners if the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal have so far been proven to be correct.