Tag: Iran

The agreements are not the EU’s problem; it is the lack of political will in its capital cities.

If the President of the United States behaves primarily as the chief negotiator for corporate America, then alliances themselves become contingent commodities.

The global backdrop has changed. Resource competition has escalated. It is no longer about interdependence.

The price of flippancy in the White House and the criminal intransigence of the Tehran regime is being paid by the Iranians who, after nearly half a century of cruel dictatorship, deserve to be free.

Washington, however, is not merely a policymaking capital. It is also a highly competitive marketplace of narratives.

Among the lessons is that the international community is interconnected and interdependent due to the phenomenon of globalization.

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

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.

It goes without saying that the war against Iran will take center stage in Beijing.

Even the U.S. military says it will take at least 10 years to replenish its ammunition stockpiles.

As always between the cup and the lip there is many a slip.