The truth about the US-Iran prisoner deal
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Most of the deal’s critics don’t seem to understand how this specific prisoner exchange agreement works
Daniel DePetris
Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities, a syndicated foreign affairs columnist at the Chicago Tribune and a foreign affairs writer for Newsweek.
Monday
Monday
The never-ending War on Terror
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US forces are operating in more countries today than they did the months and years after 9/11
Wednesday
How Macron is preparing for Trump’s return
We are still fifteen months away from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, but much of the world is already busy trying to decipher the results. With a second Donald Trump presidency in the realm of possibility, governments around the world are holding strategy sessions and informal conversations about how such an event would change U.S. foreign policy, impact their
Friday
Why bombing Mexican cartels is a bad idea
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Why would what failed to work in Colombia and Afghanistan succeed in Mexico?
Monday
What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?
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To the extent the former president has a worldview of his own, it is best understood as a smorgasbord of nationalism and pseudomercantilism
Tuesday
Nato’s members still don’t see eye to eye on Ukraine
US President Joe Biden flew into Vilnius, Lithuania early on Tuesday with a big task ahead of him: to keep Nato as united as possible at a time when the alliance is fractured on a bunch of major issues. Foremost among them is when and how to provide Ukraine a path toward eventual membership. In
Friday
Macron has a point about Russian war crimes
French President Emmanuel Macron tends to rock the boat whenever he opens his mouth, saying hard truths that many of his European colleagues, both at the state level and in the European Union’s gargantuan bureaucracy, would rather be left unsaid. Examples are legion: his insistence in 2019 that Nato was going ‘brain-dead’; his proclamation in June
Tuesday
Why Saudi Arabia wants to be a peacemaker in the Middle East
The Middle East, etched into the Western psyche as a region prone to conflict, economic malaise and geopolitical rivalry, is now awash in a frenzy of diplomatic activity. Much of the action is springing from an unlikely source: Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS). The young, ambitious Saudi crown prince is making quite a personal transformation—and it’s
Thursday
After decades of waiting, China goes on the diplomatic offensive
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From high-profile visits to brokering international agreements, Xi is riding high
Wednesday
Macron’s China controversy is a big nothingburger
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His latest interview confirms what we already know: he wants his fellow Europeans to grow a spine
Saturday
Macron tries to be the Xi whisperer
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You can’t blame him for trying, even if he will be leaving Beijing disappointed
Thursday
It’s time for Congress to take back its war powers
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The repeal of the force authorization in Iraq is a step in the right direction
Friday
The Middle East catches diplomacy fever
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Suddenly countries usually fraught with turmoil are negotiating with each other
Thursday
Contra the hawks, Biden’s defense budget keeps ballooning
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No one ever asks what is actually vital to our national security
Wednesday
Marking twenty years of America’s most endless war
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We remain in Iraq because our objectives there keep shifting
Tuesday
How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave
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The history-writing about the troop withdrawal has begun
Tuesday
Jimmy Carter’s second act was better than his first
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His post-presidential life helped prevent conflict and deserves real consideration
Thursday
How the earthquake is strengthening Syria’s dictatorship
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The West may not like it, but the Middle East is making its peace with Bashar al-Assad
Saturday
China won’t have gained much from its spy balloon
If you didn’t know any better, you might have thought China was preparing to unleash a large-scale invasion on the continental United States. News of a Chinese surveillance balloon loitering over the picturesque landscape of Montana generated a wave of sensationalist coverage and panicked responses from lawmakers. We don’t know much about the balloon other
Friday
Turkey’s heavy price for pressuring the Russians
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Is Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership really worth appeasing Erdogan?
