US and Middle East: A Series of Missteps

[E]very lie is allowed, nothing has any consequences.

Under present conditions, Washington seeks leverage without entanglement. Restraint persists not from trust, but from calculation.

Rubio's speech assuredly did not signal that American foreign policy had shifted one inch away from its Euroskeptic, nearly anti-European, stance.

When political legitimacy becomes contingent on recognition by a superpower, populations lose their right to self-determination and democracy becomes a selective tool.

[T]he U.S. government itself is a major supplier to the cartels that the White House claims to be pursuing with all its might.

The Washington Post Guild, the staff union, questioned Bezos' commitment, saying that if he is no longer willing to invest in its mission, the institution needs a steward who understands it.

Trump is grotesquely intervening against Israeli democracy and the rule of law.