The dictator behind Europe’s next migrant crisis
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Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has the EU over a barrel
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.
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Can America avoid the next crisis in Iran?
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Diplomacy with the Islamic Republic could collapse completely
Thursday
Why is the US still in Syria?
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American troops have completed the objective set out by President Obama in 2014
Wednesday
America has few good options in Haiti
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US missionaries have been kidnapped by a gang — yet there’s very little we can do about it
Tuesday
The Taliban learn just how hard governing Afghanistan is
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A civil war America is thankfully no longer a part of
Wednesday
Biden stole Trump’s foreign policy
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He promised a sea change but he’s done next to nothing different
Wednesday
Congress’s defense budget is pure madness
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They’re set to spend even more money than Joe Biden wants to
Tuesday
Biden’s big UN whopper
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He says America doesn’t want to fight ‘the wars of the past’, but we still are
Wednesday
Will Biden deal with the Taliban?
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He may need to, given that we still have interests in Afghanistan
Tuesday
Congress got mad about Afghanistan 20 years too late
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Suddenly lawmakers want to hold officials accountable. Where have they been?
Friday
Europe has been a helpless bystander in Afghanistan
America’s allies in Europe understood months before President Joe Biden’s fateful April speech to the American people that a full and complete US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan was a very real possibility. Biden talked about the urgency of getting the United States out of what he termed ‘forever war’ conflicts which required tens of billions
Friday
Can Iran’s ‘butcher’ president make peace with the Saudis?
It’s official: after eight years of a relatively pragmatic administration, Iran is now under new management. Ebrahim Raisi, a disciple of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the former judiciary chief, was inaugurated this week as Iran’s next president. Clad in a white shirt, black robe and thin-framed glasses, Raisi accepted a task that will
Thursday
George Bush’s attack on Joe Biden’s Afghan strategy is hard to take
The world doesn’t hear a lot from George W. Bush these days. The former president of the United States has spent his post-presidential life in a cozy, somewhat secluded existence on his Texas ranch in Crawford, about a two-hour drive south of Dallas. Other than issuing the occasional statement and urging Americans to get vaccinated,
Wednesday
Why the Biden-Putin summit wasn’t a waste of time
The meeting between U.S. president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva started cordially enough. A quick handshake, toothy smiles for the cameras, and some standard words of diplomacy. ‘I would like to thank you for the initiative to meet today,’ a slouching Putin told an attentive Biden. ‘Still, U.S.-Russian relations have accumulated a lot
Wednesday
Can Biden bring relations with Russia back from the brink?
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a depressing assessment on the state of U.S.-Russia relations earlier this month. While holding out a sliver of hope that ties between Washington and Moscow could improve, Lavrov said ‘the confrontation has hit the bottom’. His remarks came a fortnight after U.S. president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin
Friday
Biden’s backhanded bid to kill Nord Stream 2
Washington, D.C. is universally known as a town divided, a place where compromise and dialogue are often sacrificed at the altar of competing agendas. But on one issue, at least, there is consensus: the 764-mile Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will pump Russian natural gas into Germany is a project that must be stopped. And
Wednesday
Russian sanctions are futile
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to approach Russia and its irascible President Vladimir Putin with a new sense of toughness and purpose. Now calling the shots in the White House, President Biden appears to have made good on that promise — at least symbolically. On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced several sets
Friday
What the Khashoggi murder report means for US-Saudi relations
Today, after pressure from senior US lawmakers and staring at an impending statutory deadline, the Biden administration authorised the release of a declassified intelligence report on one of the most grisly state-sanctioned murders in recent history. The killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi may have occurred 16 months ago, but the
Wednesday
Good luck to Joe Biden. He’ll need it
It’s official: the inauguration is over, the speeches have been given, and political power in the United States has been transferred to new hands. Joe Biden, a man who first entered the national spotlight in 1972 as a young senator from Delaware, is now the 46th president of the United States. Biden is the quintessential
Wednesday
Trump’s legacy is in tatters
The fallout from last week’s storming of Congress by a pro-Trump mob of misfits and criminals has made the controversy over the infamous 2016 Access Hollywood tape look like a cakewalk. In the week since the worst political violence in Washington, D.C. since the British burned the White House and the Capitol Building in 1814,
