Blinken grilled for maintaining Trump’s sanctions on war crimes court
Rep. Ilhan Omar raised concerns in a hearing this week about whether Biden is legitimizing Trump’s attacks on the ICC.
Rep. Ilhan Omar raised concerns in a hearing this week about whether Biden is legitimizing Trump’s attacks on the ICC.
Much of the reason for being in these two countries has been to keep a check on Tehran. It’s been counterproductive to say the least.
Pompeo’s recent abuse of terrorism designations is part of the Trump administration’s salting of the earth before giving way to the Biden administration.
Trump officials are doing all they can to prevent the incoming Biden team’s diplomacy with Iran — or worse.
With the GOP megadonor’s death, his influence will live on through his wife Miriam and the alt-right.
Despite his weekend claims, he was the most partisan, anti-diplomatic secretary of state in recent memory.
US Iran envoy Elliott Abrams recently praised successes on getting Americans released, but the reality is that Trump officials only complicated the process.
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.
The U.S.’s use of torture in the so-called “war on terror” wasn’t something confined to the shadows, but a policy actively defended by administration officials — still to this day.
Team Trump’s show of force this week against the ICC was a metaphor for its disdain for international law and institutions.
Hong Kong is slipping further into Beijing’s grasp and the U.S.’s options to help prevent that are limited.
A common thread in Trump’s foreign policy is that the stated objectives are not real objectives.
Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and their allies have handed Iran grounds to argue that it needs to enrich uranium to higher levels than are allowed under the JCPOA.
The conventional arms trade is indeed a destabilizing factor in the Middle East, but a multilateral approach that does more than pressure one regional actor would be needed to address that problem effectively.
Flexing military muscles to counter Russia in the Arctic risks sparking a situation where states embark on the relentless mission of trying to achieve a monopoly of violence in the region.
Congress’s work should include continuing the investigations the IGs were not able to complete, one of many overdue steps for it to reassert itself as a coequal branch in foreign policy.
In the best of times, dissenting against policies or practices in a federal agency is an uphill battle. In the emerging reality, dissenters will see only defeat and danger ahead.
Attacking the Chinese over the coronavirus crisis will only lead to increased tensions and a weaker U.S. economy.
In order to pile more sanctions on Iran, the U.S. has to be part of the Iran nuclear deal. So now the Trump administration is pretending it never left.
Washington hawks are taking bad faith to a whole new level in their quest for regime change in Tehran.
Mike Pompeo and Mark Esper are as good as their 1986 West Point class motto. When it comes to this country’s wars, neither of them ever quits.