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“Peace through strength” means connecting free and open spaces around the world, not establishing spheres of influence.   Read More

Last May, U.S. President Donald Trump paid a triumphant visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Over the course of a... Read More

The close cooperation between the UAE, Israel, and India, endorsed by the United States, manifests the resurgence of I2U2 (India, Israel, the... Read More

The goal of eliminating any potential or future threats, real or imaginary, will all but inevitably dehumanize and create new... Read More

When the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in late February, it looked as though one of that war’s biggest beneficiaries would be Russia... Read More

Leader defiant in face of calls from some of his MPs to quit but admits ‘results are tough, and there’s no sugarcoating it' Read More

Although counting is continuing across the United Kingdom, the outcome of yesterday’s local elections is clear: Nigel Farage’s... Read More

No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing... Read More

AChinese military takeover of Taiwan is often portrayed as inevitable and imminent.  Read More

From North Korea’s “self-blasting” soldiers to China’s forced organ harvesting, authoritarian regimes repeatedly... Read More

After weeks of blockades by Iran and the United States in the Strait of Hormuz, it’s clear the narrow waterway is now pivotal to the... Read More

Venezuela’s oil rebound is not simply a production story. It is a story about sanctions licenses, naphtha, rig reactivation, tanker... Read More

The conflict news and conspiracy-peddling account, trusted by Western politicians and journalists, is the English-language arm of a Turkish... Read More

This life is not what you expected. You attended a university with a Latin motto and a good ranking. You moved to a global city. You earn a... Read More

On 4 July 1926, Weimar witnessed something strange. An infamous firebrand called Adolf Hitler stood on the town’s ancient market... Read More

We must honor the heroes who defeated Hitler without letting their victory harden into a secular myth turning ‘Nazi’ into the... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

The threat of attack from Iran has paralyzed shipping through this vital artery of global trade. Insurers have pulled back —... Read More

“Project Freedom” lasted 48 hours. The U.S. military launched escort operations through the Strait of Hormuz on May 5, sank six... Read More

Riyadh’s flex of its US-China hedge is less a display of Saudi audacity than sober acknowledgment of Iran war’s grim... Read More

Like a mad king of old, President Donald Trump spends hours wandering his palace, developing plans to better display his wealth and glory to... Read More

Ever since coming to power more than a quarter-century ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin built a new state religion around May 9, the... Read More

The West must stop fearing the Russia that no longer exists—and start preparing for the risks posed by the one that does.   Read More

This is how things will go down. U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive in Beijing next Thursday to be serenaded with gushing... Read More

Nonetheless, American business leaders should expect 2026 to feature tactical de-escalation and selective confrontation between the two... Read More

Let’s not draw the wrong conclusions from Hungary’s election or the US president’s troubles Read More

Britons will head to the polls on Thursday for one of the most consequential rounds of local elections in memory, with control of the... Read More

Today’s Operation Free MacArthur Park dismantled a massive fentanyl ring feeding LA’s most notorious open-air drug... Read More

Recent reports that the United States and Hamas have entered direct talks for the first time show that the effort to implement... Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Rome this week with two sensitive missions: contain a public spat with the Vatican and ease... Read More

Frank Dikötter begins Red Dawn over China with a quotation from the ancient Chinese military theorist Sun Tzu to the... Read More

With Strait of Hormuz closed, the US is reportedly seeking normalization with coastline state in the Horn of Africa. But it would be... Read More

We are back in an era of hard resource power and Mahanian sea power. Geography matters again. Chokepoints matter again. Energy, food,... Read More

Amid the confusion surrounding negotiations to end the Iran conflict, one unexpected cause for optimism is the beneficial impact the war has... Read More

Tens of millions of Brits are voting Thursday in elections that could hasten the fragmentation of U.K. politics — and make Keir... Read More

The late Silvio Berlusconi has come back from the dead –  momentarily, it is hoped – to torment Italian Prime Minister... Read More

I used to dismiss what I thought was an urban myth that, to help sell Tehran on the nuke deal, President Barack Obama granted thousands of... Read More

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally... Read More

Building digital infrastructure in Africa is easy to announce, but difficult to do: That’s a clear takeaway from comments by... Read More