As the world experiences significant geopolitical changes, political blocs like the European Union have a unique opportunity to chart a new path. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the European Union and its twenty-seven member states have delivered nearly $155 billion in financial, military, humanitarian, and refugee assistance to Ukraine. Of that aid sent to Ukraine, the combined military support from the EU and its member states is estimated at €49.6 billion ($53 billion). This represented a transatlantic initiative to draw Russia into a protracted conflict in Ukraine...
The ‘Foreign Policy Consensus’ Is Alive and Well in Washington
Despite branding himself a political outsider, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy reflects a deep continuity with the bipartisan consensus that has defined U.S. interventionism since the Cold War. Trump made ending America’s involvement in “endless wars” a cornerstone of his 2016 presidential campaign. On the campaign trail, he stated, “In this future, we are also going to keep our country out of the endless wars that have defined Hillary Clinton’s career." During his first term in office, Donald Trump repeatedly asserted that “great nations do not fight endless wars,” a phrase that...

Our Meddling in Yemen Has Gone On Too Long
Since the middle of March, the United States has launched extensive air and naval strikes targeting Houthi installations across Yemen. These strikes killed at least 53 people, including Houthi leaders, and injured many others. The strikes were ostensibly aimed at countering Houthi attacks on global sea lanes. These airstrikes are just the latest in Washington’s escalation against the Houthis, who the Trump administration re-designated as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” in early 2025 and has repeatedly linked to Iran. The corporate media would have people believe that the Houthis are a...
American Efforts to Separate Russia from China are Doomed to Fail
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, there was an initial sense of hope that he would wind down the conflict in Ukraine. However, continued flows of military aid to Ukraine and slow progress in the negotiations still make a lasting peace settlement a distant prospect. The Trump administration's preference would be to conclude the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and shift its geopolitical gaze to Asia to contain China. The icing on the cake would be for the United States to have Russia break its “no limits partnership” with China to isolate the East Asian giant. In...
The Mass Expulsion of Palestinians Will Not Be a ‘Cake Walk’
Contrary to what Donald Trump thinks, removing Palestinians from Gaza will not be an easy task. The United States president shocked the world when he called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, 2025. Trump floated the idea of the United States taking over and redeveloping the Gaza Strip as the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Throughout this process, Palestinians would be relocated to other Arab countries such as Egypt and Jordan with no right of return to Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Israel...
Is Trump’s Colombia Showdown a Harbinger of Greater Latin American Tensions?
Since assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has quickly put Latin America on notice. From threatening Mexico and Colombia with tariffs for not adequately dealing with illegal immigration in a way that satisfied the president, to Trump’s threats to take over the Panama Canal for China’s alleged influence over the waterway, U.S. foreign policy is shifting southward. Despite Trump’s aggressive posturing, it seems that tensions have cooled off for now. Mexico agreed to deploy about 10,000 National Guard troops to the southern border to address Trump's concerns about illegal immigration and drug...
Political Instability Looms Amid Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, bringing Israel’s punitive military campaign in the Gaza Strip to a temporary halt. While this agreement will allay tensions in the short-term, Israel will soon be confronted with tensions on multiple fronts. The latest ceasefire resembles various attempts that have been pursued since November 2023—when a truce temporarily stopped combat in Gaza, although this cessation in hostilities came about in a different political and strategic landscape. The November 2023 truce saw the Israelis and Hamas agree to a temporary...
What Will a Trump Second Term Mean for Russian-American Relations?
Contrary to the conventional wisdom permeating across alternative media, a second Trump administration is likely going to be much more hawkish than expected. Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), revealed in an ABC News interview that the administration will be pressuring Ukraine to lower its conscription age from twenty-five to eighteen to continue the NATO-sponsored proxy war against Russia. “The other thing we are going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. And one of the things we’ll be asking of the Ukrainians is, they have real...