U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has recently taken to calling the outgoing Prime Minister of Canada the “Governor…of the Great State of Canada.” In past days, he has gone beyond the jocular tone that some Canadian ministers have insisted he had, citing quite...
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Israel’s Newfound ‘Freedom of Action’ Portends Regional War
by Connor Freeman | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former ISIS deputy commander Abu Mohammed al-Julani and his rebranded Al Qaeda affiliate, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have sacked Damascus. Once again, as with the CIA’s brutal dirty war against the Syrian government under Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s regime has sided...
Drones Run Amok
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above New Jersey. Local, state, and federal authorities claimed that they did not know whose drones they were. The expression “baseless...
U.S. Foreign Policy 101: Rebranding Villains into Partners
by Ted Snider | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Maybe Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who is now the leader of Syria, really has changed. Maybe he has matured, as he told CNN, as if his years as an al-Qaeda terrorist leader were a youthful indiscretion. But the world cannot simply...
Praying For a Christmas Truce in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Dec 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
On December 11, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as one of the last things he would do at the end of his term as the European Union’s rotating president, said he had proposed a Christmas truce between Ukraine and Russia. "At the end of the Hungarian EU...
America’s Origins of Russophobia
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For those that grew up in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s, the explosion of Russophobia over the past decade likely came as something of a surprise. A brief survey of the history of Russophobia, however, reveals that the decade and a half after the end of the...
Washington’s Long Flirtation with Syria’s Islamist Extremists
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Dec 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government in late November and early December 2024 occurred with stunning speed. There was little question that Joe Biden’s administration and several U.S. allies, especially Turkey, were pleased with the outcome. Washington...
Syria Proves Tolstoy Right
by Brad Pearce | Dec 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The sudden collapse of the Syrian Arab Republic is one of the most inexplicable political events of the modern era. Though the regime was structurally unsound from over a decade of war and severe sanctions, by all accounts Bashar al'Assad's government had more or less...