On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the former's invasion. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted...
Republican Randy Fine wants to nuke Gaza. He said so after two Israeli Embassy employees were shot and killed in Washington DC on Wednesday. Fox News asked Fine on Thursday if he thought this could affect the ceasefire proposed between Israel and Palestine. Fine said...
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was the only Senate Republican who refused to sign a fawning letter to President Donald Trump demanding the complete dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program and disallowing Iran the right to enrich uranium for any purpose. “The Iranian...
Last week over two-hundred Republicans, including every GOP senator except Rand Paul (R-KY), signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to insist that Iran give up all enrichment capabilities in any nuclear deal with that country. In other words, they don’t want a...
On May 10, 2025, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire halted the most intense India-Pakistan military confrontation in decades, sparked by the April 22 militant attack in Pahalgam that killed 26, mostly Indian tourists. The truce, announced with fanfare by U.S. President Donald...
On March 20 of this year, Maria Kovalchuk, a twenty-year old Ukrainian model, influencer, OnlyFans content creator, and antiwar activist was found lying on the side of a road in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, after going missing from a party...
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...
There is a charming scene in the film Clerks (1994) in which the sidekick character Randall discusses his misgivings about the film Return of the Jedi (1983) with the protagonist Dante. Randall is upset that the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Empire’s new military space...
