Over the last twenty years the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has expanded its power in Africa at an incredible pace. In countries across the continent, the UAE has made enormous investments in shipping, agriculture, energy, mining, and telecommunications. On top of this,...

The chaotic rollout of the latest Ukraine peace initiative reveals a troubling reality that transcends partisan politics. Three years into a devastating European war, American policymakers still operate under the delusion that diplomatic papering over irreconcilable...

As a long-time critic of Washington’s obsession with the so-called “China threat”—and having written an entire book debunking it, The Fake China Threat—I could not in good conscience allow this year’s Report to Congress of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review...

Anchorage is not dead, and Budapest is still alive. Between the Trump-Putin meeting in Anchorage Alaska and the proposed Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest, the diplomatic track that the United States and Russia were on seemed to die. In October, Donald Trump and...

For more than two decades, the United States has waged a quiet, little-noticed air and special operations war across the Horn of Africa. If most Americans are unaware of this fact, that is no accident. The campaign in Somalia has been conducted so far from public...

The Israeli war on Gaza and surrounding region has revealed a constant inconsistency among Western governments. My own Australia has been among those nations unable to conduct itself with any true impartiality. Despite recognizing Palestine as a state, it has gone on...

“I don’t think we’re gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. You know? They’re gonna be like dead. Okay.”- President Donald Trump, October 23, 2025 As...