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[I]f imajor powers … bully smaller and weaker nations [then] global trade will enter a total law-of-the-jungle era.
0“No deal was signed, but Ukraine wasn’t sold either.” That is roughly how global media described the recent meeting between Trump and Putin.
0In Washington, European leaders helped steer the U.S. president away from his embrace of Vladimir Putin’s talking points. But for how long?
0It is really painful to look on as a despot-in-the-making now hands us the bill.
0The cost of delay is measured in lives lost, homes destroyed, and futures derailed. The dawn of peace must come sooner, not later.
0The relationship between Israel and the U.S. is increasingly marked by complexity and asymmetry: West Jerusalem continues to pursue its goals ... while Washington, despite growing fatigue with the conflict, remains reluctant to openly confront Netanyahu.
0There must be no deal that will leave the people of war-torn Ukraine languishing in their misery.
0The cost of delay is measured in lives lost, homes destroyed, and futures derailed. The dawn of peace must come sooner, not later.
0The European leaders who gathered Monday at the White House alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky left with vague promises of U.S. support but no guarantees of a breakthrough to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
0“No deal was signed, but Ukraine wasn’t sold either.” That is roughly how global media described the recent meeting between Trump and Putin.
0[I]f imajor powers … bully smaller and weaker nations [then] global trade will enter a total law-of-the-jungle era.
0Russia’s exit on November 7, 2023, from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), with the U.S. and NATO partners suspending their participating in the treaty highlights real concerns.
0What Putin asks is legitimization of Russian acquisition of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.
0[M]ore American troops will complicate US relations with its NATO ally Turkey and the bloody situation with Syria divided between rebel factions battling for dominance.
Given the convergence of interests of ExxonMobil and the Pentagon, we could soon see a repeat of Desert Storm.
Hawks in the U.S. assert that a scenario akin to the 'apocalypse' witnessed in Afghanistan would unfold should they withdraw from Iraq.
[T]he recent deterioration of Iraq’s security came as a consequence of the rejection of the American presence on Iraqi soil[.]
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