Tag: foreign policy

Absolutely Everything (As Far as Washington Is Concerned)

Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to a 100-year pact on security and economic cooperation, plus a deal to share drone technology.

The attacks of 9/11 were designed to push the United States into overextending itself militarily and enter an imperial tailspin.

Seven months into the conflict, Washington can still destroy targets. What it has not shown is how the war ends.

Juan Cole argues that map projections which shrink Africa and the Middle East help explain why Washington keeps misjudging the size of the countries it goes to war with.

Washington is getting a fifth of the country's reserves locked in for a generation, while the companies that lobbied hardest get first access to pump it.

A bloc representing 40 percent of the world's population, from Russia and China to India and Pakistan, jointly denounced the US and Israeli strikes on Iran at a summit in Kyrgyzstan.

Opening the Strait of Hormuz has become the number one U.S. goal.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent named the plan Operation Economic Outcast on Monday and set no timeline or list of countries, and sanctions historian Nicholas Mulder says the reach into Iran's oil buyers puts the U.S.-China trade truce at risk.

Even the Trump administration may soon realize that only multilateral negotiations can break the current deadlock.