The US Is Bullying Cambodia Because It Will Not Toe Its Line on China

European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.

[T]he risk is that unconditional sanctions relief could once again reinforce Iran’s external projection of power rather than stabilize its domestic economy.

The shift now underway is unlikely to take the form of a dramatic collapse of American power in the Gulf. It is more likely to be subtler and, for the region, more unsettling.

Here was the American president ... deciding to go to war on a gut feeling and with no visible concern for what it would mean beyond [U.S.] borders.