Donald Trump’s “America First” message promised an end to foreign entanglements, but his aggressive Iran policy tells us a different story. His administration’s decision to carry out airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Isfahan, Fordow, and Natanz on June 21, 2025 further underscores this contradiction. But when one looks at his overall track record, one realizes that Trump has been a consummate Iran hawk from day one. Trump’s claim to be an antiwar president has been a cornerstone of his political brand since he first entered the national stage. He has repeatedly declared, “Great...

Donald Trump, who returned to the White House on a promise to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, has recently expressed his frustration at how the conflict has played out thus far. In a viral Truth Social post he published on May 25, 2025, Trump manifested his bewilderment over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest campaign to ratchet up bombing campaigns across Ukraine. Trump’s complaints about Russia’s behavior belies a deeper reality: the conflict’s resolution will be forged through combat, not compromise. The president’s remarks reflect a disjointed foreign policy. Despite his calls for...

While partisan battles dominate headlines, U.S. foreign policy remains strikingly consistent across administrations. Many realists and non-interventionists were cautiously optimistic about Donald Trump’s second term bringing some modicum of restraint to foreign policy. Thus far, the Trump administration has yet to wrap up the Russo-Ukrainian war, which on the campaign trail he vowed to end in twenty-four hours. Additionally, the Trump administration continues to subsidize and provide diplomatic cover to Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza, saber rattle against Iran, and is pivoting, albeit in...

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...

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...

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...

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...