Ted Snider

In the early hours of April 19, Israel carried out its anticipated response to Iran’s April 13 aerial attack on Israel. Though the details are not known at the time of this writing, Israel appears, like Iran, to have done what it felt it needed to do to send the message it needed to send … Continue reading “Palestine and Iran: American Hegemony as Self-Interest”

On April 13, Iran responded to Israel’s attack on its embassy compound in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officers, including a very senior military official, General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, by launching over 300 drones and missiles at Israel from Iranian soil. U.S. officials, according to some reporting, say that four or five ballistic missiles hit … Continue reading “This Past Weekend, Iran Changed Everything”

The Biden administration seems to be consistently adopting a policy of attempting to satisfy its foreign policy objectives by nurturing wars being fought by others while attempting to prevent harm to its own interests by containing those wars. The doctrine of war management has three stages. The first is erecting and maintaining roadblocks to diplomatic … Continue reading “Biden’s Irresponsible War Doctrine Led to Iran’s Attack on Israel”

In both Ukraine and Gaza, the Biden administration has adopted the dangerous doctrine of war management in which, while not stopping a war diplomatically, it attempts to contain it and prevent it from becoming a wider war into which the U.S. might get drawn. The difficult to calibrate policy is being threatened in both theatres. … Continue reading “How Big a Factor Is Iran in the War on Gaza?”

NATO is less a defensive alliance than it is a provocative alliance. A quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union dismantled itself by its own will. With that titanic change, NATO’s sole purpose dissolved. Created to defend its members from a Soviet threat, NATO now self-perpetuated its extinct purpose by provoking the very threat … Continue reading “Ukraine in NATO: What Blinken Says Versus What Blinken Means”

Despite the damage done in Ukraine and NATO’s now apparent inability to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia strongly enough, one item in the western win column is the claim that NATO is more unified following the damage done by Donald Trump. Even aside from NATO preparing for the possible consequences of a second Trump term, … Continue reading “The Growing Fissures in NATO’s Unity”

On March 25, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution demanding “an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire.” Passage of the resolution was made possible by the U.S. decision to reign in its veto and, instead, abstain from the vote. In her explanation … Continue reading “America’s Disregard for Law and Life”

“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. In global affairs, a hegemon is a nation that leads because it has the consent of the other nations who believe … Continue reading “Is America a Rogue Superpower?”

On July 28, 2023, a coup led by General Abdourahamane Tchiani kicked out the democratically elected government of Niger. On March 16, 2024, the coup government kicked the United States out of Niger. Niger, and a cooperative government in Niger, are important to the United States. “Niger is a strong ally of western nations, especially … Continue reading “What Does the Coup in Niger Tell Us about the War in Ukraine?”

It has long been an open secret that the West has been providing Ukraine with funding, weapons, training, maintenance, targeting intelligence, intelligence on the position of Russian forces and vulnerabilities and even war-gaming. They have provided Ukraine with everything but the bodies. President Joe Biden has long insisted that American troops “are not and will … Continue reading “Why is the West Suddenly Revealing That It Has Troops in Ukraine?”