The main reason why the U.S. administration prioritizes Caracas over Havana lies in the nature of the interests at stake.

[T]he U.S. could be looking at the most significant transformation of the Democratic Party in a generation.

Empires never surrender — they rot.

In the end, the U.S. will probably have made the entire Middle East even more unstable than it already was.

Leavitt did not merely fill the role; she burst its bounds, just as Trump shattered the traditional limits of the presidency.

If diplomacy were an action movie, the clock would have been stuck on 0:01 seconds for the last three months.

What America’s allies fear most is not that the United States will back down, but that it no longer knows what it is fighting for, yet refuses to stop.

If the [U.S.-Saudi] nuclear deal hits a deadlock, Riyadh may pivot to alternative suppliers — a shift that would significantly erode American strategic leverage in the Middle East.

Given Trump’s aggressive push for Israel’s uninterrupted dominance of the region, the bombardment of Iran...is a fait accompli.

The Iranian axis, so to speak, is working to curb American influence — not to prove that the Shia are right or the Sunnis are wrong.

[These changes] reflect a deeper transformation in the concept of American national interest after two decades of wars in the region.

Transparency and mutual trust are necessary in relations, but playing both sides is undignified in friendly relations between allies.