American foreign policy

On New Year’s Eve a few years ago, I was in Medellín, Colombia, the city that gave its name to one of the world’s most notorious drugs cartels. Our taxi driver offered us some cocaine to fuel the party we were heading to: $10 for a gram; $15 for the “luxury” product. Our group decided to splash out and get a gram of the really good stuff. I’d tried coke a couple of times in London. It was like snorting drain cleaner. Whoosh… I found that half a line of Medellín’s best was enough to keep you going until sunrise. But the next day it was difficult to be within

Intelligence about the activities of Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese Islamists will rapidly implicate Qatar and Turkey as the Brotherhood’s key international sponsors

The imbroglio over the Ukraine peace deal has revealed some interesting tensions within the Trump administration

In seeking to bury the files, Trump has been defending the very establishment that he professes to despise

For centuries, Korea viewed itself as a ‘shrimp among whales’

He risks being bounced into an unpopular foreign war

Trump has set off on a tour of Asia to meet regional leaders

Mexico is one area where the MAGA base and its brain trust seem open to the idea of more aggressive action

The hawks in Washington are jubilant, the MAGA restrainers, as they refer to themselves, aghast

The President is going into this battle alone

All the thumb-sucking over Trump’s foreign-policy doctrine over the past near-decade was just a waste of time

Iran may well seek to trigger a wider war that enmeshes America