The president isn’t giving up on his insane expansionism: President Trump again reiterated his proposal for the United States to take over Gaza, telling reporters on Air Force One on Sunday that the strip of land was “a big real estate site” that the United States was...
Trump’s Awful ‘Return to Maximum Pressure’ on Iran
Trump’s Iran policy in the second term is set to be just as awful as it was in the first. Reuters reports: U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign a presidential memorandum on Tuesday to restore his "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran to stop the country...
Americans Will Pay for Trump’s Pointless Trade War
Trump launched his pointless trade war over the weekend. Canada and Mexico are predictably retaliating against the unwarranted tariff hike, and China is preparing its own response: Mexico and Canada, the top two U.S. trading partners, immediately vowed retaliatory...
‘For the Protection of the Free World’
Trump is sounding more and more like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: "I think the people want to be with us," Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane. "I don't really know what claim Denmark has to it, but it would be a...
Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy
As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen: It also directs the US Agency for International...
Cuba and the Ridiculous State Sponsors of Terrorism List
The Biden administration is getting something right on foreign policy at the very end: Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, nearly four years to the day from when President...
Attacking Iran Would Be Wrong and Illegal
Richard Nephew thinks that the case against attacking Iran isn’t as strong as it used to be: But today, the case against military action is not so neat. If anything, the case against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities is stronger than it has ever been. It is because...
Panama and Trump’s Throwback Imperialism
Trump threatened to steal another country’s land again: Trump reiterated his intentions to take back the Panama Canal, after threatening he would in a Truth Social post on Saturday. Trump said that the United States is being “ripped off” at the Panama Canal and has...
The Ongoing Horrors in Gaza
Another State Department official quit in frustration over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy: Casey resigned from the state department in July after four years at the job, discreetly leaving the post unlike other recent high-profile government departures. Now...
Sanctions Relief for Syria Now
The end of Assad’s rule makes most U.S. sanctions on Syria obsolete, so naturally hawks in Congress want to keep them in place: Republican and Democratic U.S. senators say it is too soon to consider lifting sanctions on Syria following the removal of President Bashar...