Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Trump administration is preparing to quit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty thanks to the arms control-hating John Bolton:The Trump administration has told U.S. allies that it wants to withdraw from...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.When Obama was president, hawkish foreign policy pundits and analysts promoted the fiction that he “abandoned” allies and “rewarded” adversaries. This was one of Romney’s main campaign...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Turkish authorities claim to have audio and video recordings that prove Saudi agents tortured and then murdered Jamal Khashoggi:The recordings show that a Saudi security team detained Khashoggi in the consulate after he...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Hal Brands makes an extremely shaky assertion about recent Saudi recklessness and U.S. involvement in the Middle East:Much of Saudi Arabia’s recent behavior has been linked to the rise of MBS, who seems driven by...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Vali Nasr predicts that the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaigns against North Korea and Iran won’t succeed:What North Korea is looking for is a step-by-step diplomatic process in...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave another one of his typical U.N. speeches last week in which he accused Iran of having a “secret atomic warehouse”:Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Nicholas Kristof has written an excellent column attacking U.S. support for the war on Yemen:The United States is not directly bombing civilians in Yemen, but it is providing arms, intelligence and aerial refueling to...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Aside from being laughed at by the audience, Trump achieved very little in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly today. The president talked a lot about the importance of sovereignty, and then called on the rest of...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Mike Pompeo’s certification earlier this month that the Saudi coalition was working to reduce harm to civilians in Yemen was an obvious sham. According to a new report in The Wall Street Journal, Pompeo made the...

Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Trump is floating the possibility of establishing a permanent U.S. military base in Poland:President Donald Trump said the U.S. is looking “very seriously” at establishing a permanent military base in...