The foreign policy section of Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech was predictably brief, and there wasn’t much to it. Anyone still holding out hope that she might signal a change in direction on U.S. policy in Gaza was completely disappointed. Harris said: With respect...
Blinken is selling a bridge to nowhere: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge gaps in ceasefire negotiations and the next step is for Hamas to accept ahead of further negotiations expected to take place later...
Matthew Petti reports on a string of recent Biden administration decisions to provide even more weapons to Middle Eastern clients: It's been a good week for the weapons industry. President Joe Biden signed off on order after order allowing American weapons to flow to...
The New York Times published a report on Biden’s foreign policy record last week that annoyed a lot of analysts and other readers because of its original hyperbolic headline about the U.S. being “consumed by war” on Biden’s watch. As Joel Mathis noted, the headline...
A new survey from the Chicago Council finds that most Americans oppose sending U.S. forces to defend Israel if it comes under attack. If Israel is attacked by Iran, 56% oppose U.S. intervention to defend them. If Israel is attacked by any of its immediate neighbors,...
The Israeli government assassinated the leader of Hamas’ political wing while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of the newly-elected Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian: Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political wing, was killed in Iran, Hamas announced...
J.D. Vance sometimes talks like a non-interventionist, but most of his foreign policy positions don’t match his rhetoric. The other day, he was talking about foreign conflicts and he said, “Sometimes, it is just none of our business and we ought to stay out of it.”...
Robert Wright doesn’t think much of the foreign policy direction of the new Labour government in Britain: [Labour shadow foreign secretary] Lammy depicts his foreign policy vision as new, but it’s pretty much the same vision that has long guided his party and...
James Stavridis isn’t satisfied with the current pointless war against the Houthis and wants something more: Four mariners dead. Two commercial ships sunk. One ship and 25 mariners held captive. Global supply chains distorted. Where is a strong military response to...
The Financial Times reports on how Saudi Arabia “won Biden back,” and it will come as no surprise that they didn’t have to do anything: As relations tentatively improved, the Biden administration floated the idea of a grand deal for Saudi Arabia to normalise ties with...
