Negotiating Peace With Monsters
The two sides in the war in Ukraine have negotiated a deal to at least reduce the starvation in Africa and elsewhere that may result from the war, by agreeing to a means of exporting some grain. The same two sides had previously reached agreements on prisoners of war....
Deterrencelessness: Nuclear Threats Neither Credible Nor Viable
Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as "deterrence" when the United States does it, but it’s called madness, blackmail, or "terrorism" if Russia, China, or North Korea does. U.S. Air Force thermonuclear weapons, about...
Day 150 of the Russo-Ukrainian War
On July 9, Britain’s largest circulation newspaper, the Daily Mail, claimed Ukrainian officials believed Ukraine was "suffering more than 20,000 casualties a month;" and, currently: "200 troops are killed and 800 wounded daily." Moreover, there...
The War ‘Diplomat’: How Borrell and the West Lost the ‘Global Battle of Narratives’
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia on July 7-8, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have accepted the painful truth that the West is losing what he termed "the global battle of...
Ready, Fire, Aim: US Interests in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
I have been asked to join my fellow panelists in speaking about U.S. interests in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. For some reason, our government has never been able to articulate these interests, but, judging by the fiscal priority Americans have assigned to these...
Global Reform and How the US Hurts Itself
Two of the biggest international crises confronting the US today are Russia’s war in Ukraine and the comatose renegotiations of the nuclear agreement with Iran. From an American foreign policy perspective, nothing could be more desirable than reform in the leadership...
Biden Ripped for $1 Billion UAE Arms Deal Days After Khashoggi Lawyer Sentenced
Progressives this week decried the Biden administration's approval of a nearly $1 billion weapons support deal with the United Arab Emirates – a move that came days after an Abu Dhabi court controversially sentenced a Virginia civil rights lawyer to three years...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Six Killed
The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim
"We regret we failed to protect you." This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on July 14, urging the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra. Only 14 years old at the time of his arrest and torture...
