“Murder as Policy”: Amnesty Int’l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200

More than 200 people have now been killed in U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. Since September, the Pentagon has struck more ...

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Ukraine & Moldova To Start EU Membership Talks

Hungary has signaled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to joi...

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Bessent and the Hamilton Standard

Scott Bessent may well be the most consequential secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton – not simply because of the policies he advances, but beca...

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Trump Steps Back From the Brink on Taiwan

Following his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump demonstrated his penchant for a transactional foreign policy when he remarked that arms ...

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Iranian Endgames?

Iran survives by delay, deception, and deterrence games—but the moment may be coming when airpower, not diplomacy, decides how the nuclear standoff ends.

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Israel’s Strategic Problem

Geographically, Israel is in a profoundly weak strategic position. At its widest point, it is only 71 miles (114 kilometers) across; at its narrowest point, it ...

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Iranian Attacks Awaken Bahrain’s Demons

The 40-day war between Israel and the US and Iran shook the Gulf states, which endured missile and drone barrages and a naval blockade from Tehran. Yet nowhere ...

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Europe’s Post-Marshall Illusion

Sovereign states coordinating defence by consent, in preference to an emergency federalism that issues handbooks because it cannot field divisions: that is the ...

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EU Funds Are Now a Political Weapon

The European Commission is preparing to release up to €17 billion in previously frozen EU funds to Hungary following the decisive electoral victory of pro-Eur...

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Enough About the ‘Thucydides Trap’ Already

The Thucydides Trap assumes nations have no control over their actions, and has been refuted by world history. Yet fear of it in popular imagination can have re...

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Go into the light, Donny

Every time he brags about passing a basic cognitive test — as he does so painfully often — this is how I feel. The man whose brain barely functions is in ch...

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How To Sell a War

Chad Levinson's book details how presidents use a web of private influence to garner support for foreign invasions.

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