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Taiwan Needs To Start Taking Its Defense Seriously October 08, 2024

It is no secret that China would like to get out of the first island chain into which it has been hemmed in for decades, or arguably even longer. They have long claimed much of the South China Sea, which includes territory claimed by multiple other s...

Taiwan

china

foreign policy

How Much Humanitarian Aid Is Hamas Stealing? Americans Paying For It Deserve To Know. October 08, 2024

The Palestinian Authority's television channel recently made the startling accusation that the terrorist group Hamas is “taking” humanitarian aid and selling it “at very high prices” to exploit desperate Palestinian civilians. This came shortly after...

Palestine

Hamas

Gaza

Is Biden Too Weak or Unwilling To Stop a ‘Sarajevo Moment’? October 08, 2024

War with Iran could be imminent. The commander-in-chief's obligation is to put our interests first, not Israel's ...

Joe Biden

iran

Wars Are Not Accidents October 08, 2024

Israel’s assassination of a top Hamas leader in Tehran in July, Ukraine’s incursion over the summer into Russia, and a recent series of increasingly assertive Chinese air and maritime interceptions in the South China Sea have fanned fears that long-s...

wars

Tariffs Alone Won't Counter China October 08, 2024

The upcoming U.S. presidential election looks set to be one of the most consequential in recent memory. Both sides view it as an existential struggle for the heart of America. One aspect of this struggle is the Trump campaign's signaling that it will...

economics

Lebanon Must Reject Hezbollah or Be Destroyed October 08, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Lebanese people in English on Tuesday, warning them to take this opportunity to reject Hezbollah's presence in their country or be caught in the crossfire and fall into "the abyss of a long war ...

Israel

EU-Israeli Relations Frayed Amid War October 07, 2024

After the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, 2023, EU member states stood united with Israel. But a year into the conflict, the humanitarian cost of Israel's ground offensive is testing that resolve....

Israel

Hamas Is Proud of October 7, Despite Losses in War October 07, 2024

Hamas feels confident in its continued pride in the attack because even though it has lost some of its fighters and commanders, it believes that in the long term, it will succeed. ...

Hamas

A Simple View of the Arab-Israeli War October 07, 2024

Last week, I wrote an article on the two wars raging in Eurasia. It was “idiosyncratic” in that, unlike other columns circling the mediasphere, it focused on how ground combat in the Middle East evolves into conventional war, and how a conventional w...

Israel

Russia’s War on Ukraine October 07, 2024

Russia

A Regional War Has Broken Out in the Middle East October 07, 2024

In the wake of Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel, we sit at a crossroads for the future of what has become a regional war in the Middle East. How did we get here?...

What Israel Has Lost October 07, 2024

The massacre of October 7, 2023, was one of the most horrific atrocities perpetrated since World War II. ...

Israel

Murder for Hire: Inside Iran’s Proxy War With Israel in the West October 05, 2024

Nearly 60% of Gaza Damaged or Destroyed in One Year of War October 05, 2024

Israel’s Oct. 7 Failure: Who Is To Blame? October 05, 2024

Despite the operational and intelligence successes of Israel in Lebanon in September 2024, a troubling question hangs over the country: Who bears responsibility for the failure to anticipate the Oct. 7 Hamas assault that led also to the war in Lebano...

Taiwan Critical to World Economy October 05, 2024

With escalating US-China competition and mutual distrust, the trend of supply chain “friend shoring” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fragmentation of the world into rival geopolitical blocs, many analysts and policymakers worry the world...

Taiwan

Escalating to War Between Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran October 05, 2024

Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah continue to escalate in what Israel has called Operation Northern Arrows....

Israel

The Nuclear Option to Chinese Influence in Latin America October 04, 2024

Central to President Reagan's foreign policy was a steadfast commitment to confronting America's greatest ideological rival, the Soviet Union, on the global stage. While parts of the Reagan Doctrine remain contentious, like military aid to Nicaraguan...

china

Latin America

nuclear power

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

America Needs To Revive the 'Arsenal of Democracy' October 04, 2024

In the winter of 1940, with war raging across Europe, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave what would become his most famous public address....

United States

military

The West Is ‘Drunk on Peace' October 04, 2024

military

Is Russia Really Being Exhausted in Ukraine? October 04, 2024

A war of attrition against Russia has never proved to be a good idea. From Napoleon’s France to Hitler’s Germany, many have attempted it, but no one has succeeded in finally killing the Bear. So why would Zelensky be the one to achieve it? ...

Russia

Israel’s New Resolve October 03, 2024

So goes the final stanza of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s most famous poem: “Do not go gentle into that good night.” ...

Israel

Bridging the EU and the U.S. for a Stronger Alliance October 03, 2024

NATO’s changing of the guard takes place while war rages in Ukraine and as the future of transatlantic relations remains uncertain. It will take all of new secretary general Mark Rutte’s skill to establish a stable NATO 3.0...

European Union

Earthquakes in the Middle East October 03, 2024

For almost a year, many hoped that Israel's war with Hamas would not spread beyond Gaza. But attacks on northern Israel by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and now the decision by both groups' backer, Iran, to fire ballistic missiles at Israel, has mad...

Israel

Pulling the Middle East Back From the Brink October 03, 2024

Iran’s ballistic missile strikes on Israel on October 1 have raised fears of an all-out war in the Middle East....

Middle East

iran