Europe should back away from US strategy in the Levant
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
The United States is plunging further into its self-defeating foreign policy with new “maximum pressure” sanctions on Syria and anyone doing business with it.
Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari lobbying money is flooding Washington, and in the process American policy has been knocked down for the count.
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.
It’s been two years since the historic Singapore Summit, but little progress has been made. The United States needs to start preparing for the long game.
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.
The Trump administration recently blocked Iran form getting an IMF loan amid the COVID-19 crisis and it’s likely to do it again because of Hezbollah’s role in Lebanon’s government
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.
A recent peace proposal from the Palestinian prime minister raises questions about just who represents Palestinians and what they actually will accept.
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has weakened the U.S. economy, the foundation of its national power. This has implications for U.S. foreign policy.
International cooperation and an agreement on equitable access to a new vaccine is in the interest of everyone.
Iran continues to pull back on some of its obligations in response to Trump unilaterally reimposing crushing sanctions, but the JCPOA is still alive.
However difficult and long it takes, America has always been able to surmount its problems and renew itself. Thus current protests show not weakness but strength.
“The fundamental problem with U.S. policy toward Iran has been a ridiculous inflation of Iran’s importance to the United States.”
Trump unsurprisingly got some things wrong when he invoked the right to bear arms in his speech threatening to send the military to quell protests around the country.
You’re not wrong if you’re thinking that Trump’s handling of the protests across the country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder seems very familiar.
A debate is brewing about the future of U.S. policy toward China and there are many in Washington who are eager for a fight.
Americans seem rightly offended by their military being used to police their own neighborhoods, but they have also largely stood by as it has waged counterinsurgency in neighborhoods around the world.
The United States imposes sanctions on more countries than all other nations or international institutions combined.
Tangling with the Russian bear above, and especially under, the seas does not comport with U.S. national security interests.
A common thread in Trump’s foreign policy is that the stated objectives are not real objectives.