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December 7, 2023
Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrives in UAE, first stop on Middle East trip
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday for an important visit. He is meeting with the President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Russian state...
December 6, 2023
IDF expands operations into southern Gaza
On December 5 as Hamas continued to fire rockets at Israeli cities, the IDF expanded operations in Gaza to include Khan Younis, the hometown of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. The day, which included extreme...
December 6, 2023
Erdogan Does Not Care About the Palestinians
James Carville coined one of the most quoted phrases in political discourse when he stated, “it’s the economy, stupid”—a reference to George Bush’s loss of the 1992 U.S. presidential election...
December 6, 2023
Zelenskyy Orders Ukrainian Forces to Dig In
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that he had ordered an expansion of defensive fortifications across the battlefield. Following the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive,...
December 5, 2023
Venezuela seeks to channel Moscow, Tehran and Hamas wars
Venezuela is risking a new war in South America. The country, run by the authoritarian regime of Nicolas Maduro, pushed a referendum on Sunday calling for Caracas to launch a war against its neighbor...
December 5, 2023
Hamas Remains Intact, Yet Blinken Hedges on Support for Israeli War Effort
Fighting between Israel and Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group, resumed on Dec. 1. The pause ended after Hamas failed to provide a list of hostages it was prepared to exchange with Israel and...
September 28, 2023
Reading the UNGA tea leaves 2
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened this month with dictators and elected leaders alike – the U.N. does not prefer one or the other – descending upon New York City to...
September 28, 2023
Reading the UNGA tea leaves
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened this month with dictators and elected leaders alike – the U.N. does not prefer one or the other – descending upon New York City to...
August 30, 2023
The price of American leadership
“A fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Oscar Wilde famously quipped. In Milwaukee last week, the Republican candidates for president – minus one...
July 15, 2023
Putin’s soft underbelly is ripe for revolt
After the so-called “march of justice” against the Russian military, all eyes have been Belarus. Often described as Europe’s last dictator, its leader Alexander Lukashenko serves as Vladimir...
July 14, 2023
Will Sweden Actually Be Admitted Into NATO?
Will Sweden actually be admitted into NATO? Maybe. At NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced “President Erdogan ha[d] agreed to forward...
July 14, 2023
States Should Deliver the Final Blow to BDS at Morningstar
The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) last week reported that Morningstar Sustainalytics – the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. – had removed negative...
July 13, 2023
The Only Thing Worse than Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight
This spring, a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan – both as a show of solidarity and to develop responses to Beijing’s aggression. Among their “constructive takeaways” was...
July 13, 2023
France Sends SCALP-EG Missiles to Ukraine
At the NATO summit in Vilnius, French President Emmanuel Macron announced he had decided to provide Ukraine with “long-range missiles.” These missiles will aid Kyiv’s efforts to degrade...
July 12, 2023
Internal Violence Has Become a Nightmare for Israeli Arabs
The wave of violence and crime among Israeli Arabs has become a major problem. Among the latest victims are Omar and Muhammad Khaldi, father and son, who were gunned down in northern Israel in...
July 12, 2023
How to help the Saudis achieve their nuclear-powered dreams without giving them the bomb
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is offering the U.S. a deal he believes it cannot refuse. He is prepared to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, granting the...
July 12, 2023
Iran’s shadow war
Israelis battled Palestinians in the northern West Bank last week. That’s what most media reported and it’s true as far as it goes. But here’s a more accurate description of reality: Israeli troops...
July 11, 2023
How NATO Should Fight Back Against Russia’s Hybrid Warfare
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the West has declared a “total hybrid war” against Russia. Moscow understands very well that it cannot win a conventional conflict with NATO but...
July 11, 2023
China Tries to Flip an American Ally
NGERULMUD, Palau—A tiny Pacific island nation with a population of 18,000 that few Americans can find on the map could be pivotal to defending Taiwan from a Chinese invasion. Even as the Pentagon...
July 10, 2023
Keep Air Defense at the Top of NATO’s Agenda in Vilnius
Despite reports that Russia’s missile supplies might be running low, Ukraine faces a renewed aerial bombardment from the Russian military. According to the BBC, the month of May saw Ukraine receive a...
July 10, 2023
Iraqi sovereignty at stake in case of Israeli hostage
The Iraqi militia Kata’ib Hezbollah has been holding hostage, since March, Israeli-Russian Elizabeth Tsurkov, a graduate student at Princeton University. Tsurkov had entered Iraq, using her Russian passport,...
July 10, 2023
Breaking a leg in Jerusalem: How Arab-Israeli kindness challenged my assumptions
I broke my leg in two places a little more than a week ago in Jerusalem. It was a freak accident, brought on by exhaustion, jet lag, dehydration and, if I am to be honest, a glass of champagne. Fortunately,...
July 9, 2023
U.S. fighting China on the wrong battlefield
Exactly 79 years ago, on 9 July 1944, the American military secured the island of Saipan—a key component of Imperial Japan’s defence plan. Tens of thousands died in the battle, and the island...
July 7, 2023
What can we expect from an Erdogan-Netanyahu meeting?
What could possibly go right, or wrong, in a meeting between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu? Recent reporting suggests that the two...
July 7, 2023
Iran must notify about new enrichment facilities
A regime official threatened this week that Iran would enrich uranium to higher levels or withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty should European countries retain missile-related...
July 6, 2023
The Saudi-Iran Agreement: Should Washington Be Worried?
While a few statements and photo ops here and there might suggest that Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Muhammad Bin Salman (MBS) is in the process of replacing Saudi Arabia’s traditional partner,...
July 5, 2023
Five Scenarios on Whether Tehran’s Nuclear Ambition Can Be Stopped
Whispers of an agreement between Washington and Tehran are coalescing into something more substantial. While the fine details remain shrouded in mystery, the broad outline suggests that Tehran will...
July 5, 2023
The rise and fall of Putin’s warlord
Vladimir Putin could have lived out his life in luxury, committing serials murders with impunity, and spending his country’s wealth fighting tigers in [Siberia]Siberia and chilling with his “romantic...
July 4, 2023
Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities are a growing threat to Europe
As Europe struggles to combat Iran’s drone proliferation to Russia for use against Ukraine, it can ill afford to ignore improvements to an even greater unmanned aerial threat that...
July 4, 2023
Mongolia Forum: Peace and security in Northeast Asia through Korean unification
Since Mongolia transitioned from communism to democracy it has been quietly working behind the scenes as a peace builder serving as a convening location for numerous talks, dialogues, processes, workshops...
July 1, 2023
Fact Check: President Biden’s claim Al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan is demonstrably false
President Joe Biden claimed that Al Qaeda is not in Afghanistan and the U.S. has received help from the Taliban in eliminating the terror groups presence in the country. However, a recent report by the...
June 30, 2023
Washington Needs a New Economic Security Framework for the Americas
The Western hemisphere is home to some of the world’s largest economies—the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico—and boasts countries with long-standing democratic traditions. Yet a lack of U.S....
June 29, 2023
Russia’s National Guard to Get Tanks Following Wagner Mutiny
In the wake of Wagner’s mutiny, Viktor Zolotov, the head of Rosgvardia, Russia’s National Guard, said his troops will receive tanks and other heavy equipment. This appears to be a reaction to Rosgvardia’s...
June 29, 2023
Xi’s Schadenfreude Over Moscow’s Mutiny
In war, more things often go wrong than right. If that inconvenient truth was somehow lost on Chinese leader Xi Jinping more than 16 months into Russia’s planned two-day takeover of Ukraine, then...
June 29, 2023
Russia’s Biowarfare Lies Can’t Go Unanswered
The Russian disinformation machine has spun its latest web of lies. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry accused the U.S. of preparing to target Russian troops with drones carrying malaria-bearing...
June 28, 2023
Yes, Xi Jinping is a dictator, and he should be proud of it
What’s Xi Jinping getting his knickers in a knot about? Was it a diplomatic faux pas for President Biden to call him — at a campaign fundraiser — a “dictator”? Of course. Was...
June 27, 2023
Unrest in the West Bank: More Than Two Years of Escalating Violence
The West Bank is undergoing a period of major instability due to the significant allocation of resources by various armed groups, namely Islamic Jihad, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and Hamas. Adding fuel to the fire, Iran and Hezbollah are supporting the unrest by transferring arms and finances. A marked surge in hostilities…
June 27, 2023
After Wagner Group’s failed coup, spread the word: Putin is vulnerable
In response to Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin’s threat over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin refrained from any serious counteraction as Wagner troops neared the city. Prigozhin...
June 26, 2023
Time to Stop Disruptive Russian-Serbian Machinations in the Balkans
While all eyes are on Ukraine, Serbia, backed by Russia, is provoking fresh chaos in the Balkans. By pushing the region to the brink of collapse and igniting ethnic conflicts, the Kremlin hopes to undermine...
June 26, 2023
Cluster Munitions Are Biden’s Latest Slow-Roll on Ukraine Aid
As it pushes to liberate its territory, Ukraine is asking the United States for a controversial weapon: cluster munitions. These projectiles scatter small bomblets over a wide area and are thus much...
June 25, 2023
Palau under CCP pressure to switch recognition from Taiwan to China
The United States has exceptionally close defense and security relationships with three countries—closer than it has with any others. And they aren’t the ones you think. Through the Compacts...
June 23, 2023
Kyiv Strikes Key Bridge Connecting Crimea to Mainland Ukraine
The Ukrainian military on Thursday struck a key bridge connecting the Crimean Peninsula to the Russian-occupied part of Kherson Oblast. The strike aims to degrade Russia’s ability to resist the counteroffensive Kyiv...
June 23, 2023
How Erdoğan Is Fomenting an Anti-Western Mindset in Turkey
We are captives of the present. Up until the May elections, most observers of Turkish politics focused (correctly) on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plans regarding foreign policy. Questions about domestic...
June 23, 2023
Will Erdogan Finally Ratify Sweden’s NATO Accession? No One Knows.
The expectation that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will finally agree to support Sweden’s bid to join NATO has gone from “It’ll definitely happen after Erdogan gets reelected” to “Who...
June 22, 2023
Why Iran’s regime fears women’s hair
It’s the Iranian regime’s obsession. Surveillance cameras dot the landscape of Tehran and other Iranian cities in search of supposed deviants: women who fail to wear the mandatory hijab, or headscarf....
June 22, 2023
Turn Russia’s paranoia against it: Fight back in the information war
A Russian bureaucrat and his wife are at home with their child. They’re disillusioned, asking themselves, “Is it the kind of life I dreamt of?” Then the man decides to contact the CIA. “We...
June 21, 2023
UN Report Ignores Palestinian Terrorism, Blasts U.S. Supporters Of Israel
A 27-nation coalition led by the United States today rightly condemned the United Nations commission of inquiry (COI) investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A COI report earlier...
June 21, 2023
Bashar Al Assad Must Pay
Arab leaders have welcomed Syria back into the diplomatic fold, but the U.S. Congress remains committed to holding the regime of Bashar al Assad accountable for a decade of atrocities. In...
June 21, 2023
A C2 Structure for a Strong U.S.-Japan Alliance
This commentary is part of the Exploring New Horizons: Japan’s Defense Priorities project, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by leading Japanese and American scholars examining the implications...
June 21, 2023
Putin’s to-do list
Western leaders have long misunderstood Vladimir Putin. In 2001, President George W. Bush “looked the man in the eye” and “found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.” Not exactly. In...
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