In February 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of "not being ready to fulfill agreements" reached during alleged Trump-Putin talks in Alaska in August 2025. The accusation fits a pattern. During a July 2020 conference on the Open Skies Treaty, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS that Russia does not view the United States "as a partner who is able to negotiate." The charge that Washington cannot be relied upon to honor its commitments has become a recurring theme in Russian diplomacy and increasingly resonates beyond Moscow. Over the...

The United States finds itself in an unfamiliar position. After spending approximately one hundred and fifty THAAD interceptors and eighty SM-3 missiles to help defend Israel during the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, the Pentagon faces a stark reality. Its stockpiles are depleted, its production lines cannot keep pace, and another major conflict with Iran would require an air defense umbrella America can no longer fully provide. The question is not whether the United States wants to strike Iran again. The question is whether it can afford to. For now, the answer appears to be no. But history...

A troubling convergence has emerged among Western think tanks, Israeli politicians, and exiled opposition figures advocating for the partition of Iran along ethnic and sectarian lines. This strategy represents a dangerous escalation from traditional regime change toward what can only be described as regime destruction, a policy shift that would benefit Israeli regional ambitions while catastrophically destabilizing the Middle East and creating humanitarian disasters that would dwarf the Syrian refugee crisis. Iran's demographic reality forms the pretext for these proposals. Persians...

Donald Trump presented himself as someone who would end America's perpetual conflicts and chart a fresh course in global affairs. Supporters routinely placed him alongside noninterventionist figures such as Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, insisting he would deliver prudence and realism to the nation's capital. Reality paints an entirely different picture. Across Venezuela, Somalia, Iran, and Yemen, Trump's tenure has featured military expansion, financial coercion, and overseas operations that mirror his predecessors in both breadth and destructiveness. Hard data confirms this assessment....

On January 16, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood beside Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce what he called a landmark agreement that fundamentally restructured trade relations between the two nations. The deal slashed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 100% to 6.1% while China reduced levies on Canadian canola from 84% to approximately 15%. But the numbers themselves tell only part of the story. This agreement represents something far more consequential: the first major fracture in North American solidarity since World War II, driven not by ideological sympathy for...

On November 16, 2025, Ecuadorian voters delivered a decisive rebuke to Washington's expansionist ambitions in Latin America, rejecting a proposal to overturn the country's constitutional ban on foreign military bases by a commanding 60.56%-39.44% margin. The referendum result demonstrates that even as right-wing, pro-American governments proliferate across the region, Latin American citizens remain deeply skeptical of direct U.S. military intervention on their soil. President Daniel Noboa, the country’s 37-year-old president born in Miami and groomed in elite American business schools, had...

When President Donald Trump celebrated Kazakhstan’s decision to join the Abraham Accords, he spoke of peace and partnership in the familiar language of statesmen. The announcement sounded like a diplomatic victory in a region marked by instability. In reality, it looked more like one more step in a slow and deliberate effort to turn Central Asia into a forward operating base against Russia, China, and Iran. Kazakhstan sits at the heart of that emerging contest. American strategists began to speak of a unified space that they call “Greater Central Asia” years before Trump returned to the...