No NATO for Ukraine is key to jumpstarting stalled talks
Bringing peace to Ukraine has obviously proved more difficult than President Trump imagined when he pledged to end…
Israel blindsides Trump in self-serving effort to break up Syria
Just days before Israeli F-35s screamed over Damascus, the improbable seemed within reach. U.S. Special Envoy Tom Barrack,…
Trump lifted sanctions on Syria. Now do Cuba.
President Trump’s new National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) on Cuba, announced on June 30, reaffirms the policy of…
Good, bad and ugly: Impact of US Iran strikes on Russia war talks
To a considerable degree, President Donald Trump won the presidency in 2024 because voters embraced his message of…
Trump’s silence on loss of Ukraine lithium territory speaks volumes
Last week, Russian military forces seized a valuable lithium field in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the latest…
Pure Orwell: Europe condemns Iran for attacks on its own territory
When Israeli warplanes struck Iran this week — violating Iranian sovereignty in a brazen act of aggression, killing scores…
Done right, Hegseth’s personnel reforms can fix broken military
On April 30, new Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Stuart Scheller, a former Marine Corps…
‘Terrorism’? Israel has weaponized the charge for decades
What do human rights activists in Jerusalem, humanitarian aid workers in Gaza, and college students in New York…
Stars are aligned for Trump’s troop withdrawal from Syria
The blitzkrieg offensive which ousted Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 has sparked an explosive political and…
The ghosts of the Iraq War still haunt me, and our foreign policy
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2003, President Bush issued his final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. Two nights…
With forced withdrawal, Russia takes away Ukraine’s Kursk cards
President Zelensky should have pressed ahead with peace talks in August 2024, rather than invading Kursk. Ahead of…
Why are we still at war in Syria?
On Sunday, U.S. Central Command announced that it had recently killed two people linked to Al-Qaeda in Idlib,…