Tag: foreign policy

How should you handle a U.S. president who constantly distinguishes himself with infantile provocations?

I want to believe that in some Washington office there is someone capable of understanding what is happening.

U.S. interests themselves may not have changed; what has changed is more likely the way those interests are expressed.

Now Israel is also learning what kind of 'ally' Donald Trump is.

[W]hy does the United States believe it has the standing to dictate which nations South Africa may engage with and on what terms?

Trump has dropped the hammer on his own toes.

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

When America gets drunk from waging endless wars, paradoxically the whole planet wakes up with a terrible hangover.

The embrace of socialism ... has led to Donald Trump’s current executive order to restrict oil supplies to Cuba.

Trump and his advisers have repeatedly insisted that the U.S. president can pretty much do whatever he wants and that the pesky Congress need only be consulted rarely.

The prevailing view among the international community is that while American hegemony still exists, it is now in a state of relative decline.

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