US ‘Brokered’ Agreements on Israel: Wind of Change or Toxic Blast of Extortion?

[O]il, CITGO and the control of gold remain the key pieces on a geopolitical chessboard, with the suffering of the Venezuelan people relegated to the background.

The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises.

Europe is not — and will not be for a long time — self-sufficient in confronting Russia's military potential.

Without the U.S., the alpha dog that pulls everyone together in a crisis would not exist.

[I]f the ideologues prevail, there will be no "deal," but at most a frozen conflict. And before long, a new war.