Russia and China have renewed their treaty of friendship, and their respective leaders claimed that the relationship was stronger than ever:Beijing and Moscow have moved to consolidate ties by renewing a 20-year-old friendship treaty, weeks after the Russian and US...
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home by gunmen earlier today. The last time that a Haitian president was assassinated, the U.S. intervened militarily and then occupied the country for the next 19 years. There is absolutely no good reason why...
From The American Conservative:Bruce Riedel calls for the U.S. to pressure the Saudi coalition to end their blockade of Yemen:For the war to end, the Biden administration will need to lay out a political process that entices the Houthis to a ceasefire. A good place to...
From The American Conservative:Laura Rozen reports on the Iranian announcement that their government will cease its voluntary implementation with the IAEA’s Additional Protocol next week as part of the legislation adopted following the murder of Mohsen...
From The American Conservative:Peter Beinart makes a good case that broad sanctions regimes are immoral and destructive:Why are policies that have proved so ineffective and immoral so hard to undo? Because abandoning them would require admitting hard truths: North...
From The American Conservative:Yesterday the president delivered his first foreign policy address since taking office, and he chose to give it at the State Department. The location underscored Biden’s message that “diplomacy is back,” and the visit...
From The American Conservative: Annelle Sheline comments on the encouraging news that President Biden will shortly announce the end of U.S. support for Saudi coalition “offensive operations” in Yemen: Biden’s team may see the withdrawal of US support...
From The American Conservative:Bret Stephens writes a rather disingenuous column promoting the idea of a “dissidents first” foreign policy. It is a cynical argument that focuses only on dissidents that speak out against adversaries, and it ignores that the...
From The American Conservative:Paul Pillar comments on Mike Pompeo’s latest string of destructive acts and dishonest claims as Trump’s term comes to an end. Here he addresses Pompeo’s distortions and exaggerations of the relationship between Iran and...
From The American Conservative:The Trump administration is moving ahead with the disastrous decision to label the Houthis a foreign terrorist organization:The Trump administration is preparing to designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents a terrorist organization...
