Does the left-right foreign policy alliance survive Trump?
It depends on what happens to the remnants of ‘Trumpism,’ and which Republicans take up the mantle of power on the Hill next.
It depends on what happens to the remnants of ‘Trumpism,’ and which Republicans take up the mantle of power on the Hill next.
EIliott Broidy admitted to violating foreign lobby laws on behalf of Chinese interests.
Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
We’ve poured too much authority and faith into one man and that has proven dangerous, at home and abroad.
The outgoing secretary of state spent his final days planting booby traps and ensuring his own political future.
We must take away the president’s sole ability to initiate a nuclear Armageddon.
One year ago, the murder of Qassem Soleimani sparked a tit-for-tat that ended up killing 176 innocent civilians.
We spend most of our attention on foreign threats that are in retrospect, much less serious than what we saw this week.
New clues indicate the worst, and if true then it’s folly, and an obvious attempt to obstruct the incoming White House.
The president has been sending out broad signals that he’s willing to plant certain landmines for the incoming president.
But Biden could turn it around by making the new Congress decide whether to put troops back into the country, or not.
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.
A series of violent attacks, involving explosions and fires, has been hitting Iran. The incidents have been too frequent and intense to be random accidents. They are part of an organized effort.
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.