North Korea’s isolation is its greatest liability
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
The country’s population of 25 million unvaccinated people offers COVID an extraordinary opportunity not only to spread but also to mutate.
Reorganizing global trade and markets based on security interests and ‘values’ could have significant costs
While it may seem politically convenient to blame the 8-week invasion for everything, it is supremely deceptive to do so.
The US should learn lessons from the Cold War when economic embargoes left it increasingly isolated.
The ‘great expropriation’ will come to be regarded as a turning point — one which the great powers of the world will likely regret.
The Taliban takeover pummeled the country’s economic sector; how can the international community help the Afghan people survive?
If Washington is wise, it won’t punish its friends for acting in their own interests.
Washington wants Dhaka to join its regional coalition meant to contain China, but sanctions might not be the way to do it.
Negotiations will be admittedly hard, but the alternative is truly too dangerous and difficult to contemplate.
If not they could bleed the Russian people, impact the global economy, and fuel long-term conflict on the ground.
The US Treasury waiver will allow commercial transactions and cross-border trade previously prohibited under anti-Taliban sanctions.
Such measures are critical to holding Moscow accountable for its actions — but they are not a longterm fix and must be carefully calibrated.
Let there be no mistake, sanctions could have a significant negative impact on global markets and drive inflation to new heights.
Washington is exacerbating an economic crisis that’s hurting ordinary people who are being treated as pawns.
If God forbid the administration fires it, the results will be to wound Moscow, but also to blow off America’s own toes.
Fidel Castro once called it ‘a tangled ball of yarn,’ and after six decades, Washington’s keystone regime change policy still hasn’t worked.
Punishing and humiliating Moscow won’t do anything to reduce tensions or encourage the compromises needed to avoid war.
The measure would have punished Russia and anyone working on the gas project, which is supported by our German partners.
New data shows stunning plunge in coverage, just as the humanitarian crisis — much of it caused by Washington sanctions — peaks.
The GOP senator has swapped his hold on Biden’s ambassadors for a vote on more sanctions for Russia over Nord Stream 2.
Washington is helping to set into motion the makings of a failed state — with all of the human suffering that comes with it.