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Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall
Latin America

Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall

But he shouldn't be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959 and the conditions are no different today.

Monroe Doctrine
Latin America

Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen

Offering a sober assessment of 19th and 20th Century US foreign policy and lessons learned the hard way

Gaza refugees
Middle East

By suspending 37 aid orgs is Israel pushing toward a final expulsion?

At the very least, the decision to cut loose every major Gaza humanitarian group could lead to the utter collapse of Trump's peace plan

Trump SOTU 2025
Washington Politics

Has my party become 'eunuchs in the thrall' of the president?

No provision in the Constitution allows the president to unilaterally bomb another nation's capital and remove its leader

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?
Africa

Is Somaliland recognition worth a new Israeli outpost on the Red Sea?

Both countries have a lot to gain from the controversial new relationship, and judging from the backlash, a lot to lose too

ukraine russia war
Europe

Despite the blob's teeth gnashing, realists got Ukraine right

As usual, critics are still trying to launder their abysmal policy records by projecting their failures and conceits onto others.