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Trump’s Strategy Could End NATO as We Know It March 27, 2025

Since the ill-fated Oval Office meeting between Presidents Trump and Zelensky, the headlines have been dominated by pronouncements about the end of NATO, the United States’ alleged decision to give up the post of SACEUR and European efforts underway ...

Russia

Too Early To Jump to Conclusions About U.S. Policy March 27, 2025

The advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency has brought a considerable level of disruption to US foreign policy in a very short space of time....

United States

U.S. Says ‘No More Money' for South Africa March 26, 2025

President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio’s expulsion this week from the United States of the South African ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, is another delightful wringing down of the curtain on a long era of hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil hy...

South Africa

America’s Space Strategy in a Changing Middle East March 26, 2025

The geopolitical landscape is shifting beneath our feet as the United States recalibrates its global strategy. This strategic pivot carries profound implications not just for conventional U.S. military force posture throughout the globe, but for an o...

space

United States And Russia Discussed Black Sea Shipping Safety March 25, 2025

Russia

Poland is a Model U.S. Ally – Let’s Act Like It March 25, 2025

Earlier this month, Elon Musk inserted himself into another political debate about Russia’s war on Ukraine. In his comments, he noted his Starlink system as the “backbone” of the Ukrainian army, asserting that, “their entire frontline would collapse”...

Poland

Ukraine

history

Are Europe and the U.S. Headed for a Divorce? March 25, 2025

If the United States and Europe were a married couple, you would probably say they are headed for a divorce. Like that couple, the two long-time partners could resolve their differences and renew their vows. ...

United States

Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee? March 24, 2025

Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political ...

How Campus Activism on Israel-Palestine Warps Global Security Priorities March 24, 2025

Thanks to university-driven activism over the Israel-Palestine conflict, the war in Gaza has politically sidelined the West’s commitment to global security in other regions of the world.Israel-Palestine is one of the few conflicts that inspires activ...

Europe’s War in Ukraine March 24, 2025

Relations between the United States and its European allies have proved tempestuous during the first two months of the second Trump administration. ...

Ukraine

The Trump Admin Accidentally Texted Me War Plans March 24, 2025

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. ...

Trump administration

The Transatlantic World Will Never Be the Same March 24, 2025

Once upon a time, the United States saw the contest between democracy and authoritarianism as a singularly defining issue. It was this outlook, forged in the crucible of World War II, that created such strong transatlantic bonds. For many decades, th...

NATO

United States Senate

U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025

U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...

South Africa

Trump administration

foreign policy

Western Leaders Should Think Twice Before Removing Foreign Dictators March 22, 2025

Libya. Iraq. Syria. All were countries that suffered under the decades-long reign of brutal dictators. All have been swept up into anarchic spells of violence and terror after the West moved to overthrow those dictators. With last weekend’s news of t...

Welcoming Europe’s Defense Industrial Renaissance March 22, 2025

Fearing a sustained threat from Russia and reduced military protection from the United States, several European nations led by Poland, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and Germany are boosting defense spending. The European Union is also making $163 bill...

military

European Union

America Should Talk to Hamas About Hostages March 21, 2025

Axios recently reported that Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer “lashed out” at U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler in a “tense” phone call for negotiating with terror group Hamas for the return of a kidnapped U.S. citizen.In February, the U....

Would Americans Go to War Against China? March 20, 2025

When it comes to military force, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a starkly split stance. On the one hand, Trump is a self-professed skeptic of foreign entanglements. ...

china

Trump Must Consider a Stronger Lithuanian Partnership March 20, 2025

As a first-generation American of Lithuanian descent, I have a strong connection to this Baltic country. My parents fled Lithuania in 1985, then under Soviet control, and arrived in America in 1986 for a shot at the American dream.Like millions of fa...

Judge Falsifies USAID Origins in Foreign Aid Freeze March 19, 2025

A federal judge, in a ruling aimed at restoring the core functions of the defunct United States Agency for International Development (USAID), appeared either to not know or, indeed, falsify how the agency was created....

USAID

Engineering an End to the Ukraine War March 19, 2025

When the United States entered talks with North Vietnam near the end of the Vietnam War, it hadn’t been militarily defeated, but it had failed in its mission to destroy the Viet Cong. North Vietnam had not won the war either, but the outcome of the c...

Ukraine

Does America Face a “Ship Gap” With China? March 19, 2025

Over the past few years, concerns about China’s navy and its potential threat to U.S. interests have steadily grown. Two decades ago, the U.S. Navy had 282 battle-force ships against the Chinese navy’s 220, but by the mid-2010s this advantage had dis...

china

How to Match Ends and Means in the Middle East March 19, 2025

For years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States enjoyed superpower status in a unipolar world. Its economy roared, and its military power went unmatched. When it came to pursuing its goals, Washington had to contend with few obsta...

Middle East

Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025

The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...

canada

Donald Trump

economics

The Fragile Axis of Upheaval March 18, 2025

Even regional wars have geopolitical consequences, and when it comes to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the most important of these has been the formation of a loose entente among China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. Some U.S. national security experts hav...

china

iran

North Korea

Is China Losing Africa to India? March 18, 2025

"Africa is entering a period where, for the first time in modern history, it will not be dominated by external powers," Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association, told Newsweek. "The influence of Europe, Russia, the...

china