China and Pakistan have slammed US President Donald Trump’s new policy on Afghanistan, which includes sending additional troops to the country. The nations have instead
Day: September 9, 2017
Beating the Drum For a “Good” Nuclear War with North Korea
United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has proven herself to be one of the most hawkish U.S. representatives to the UN, likely a reflection of the
Israel Launches Air Strikes On Syria and Assad’s “Waiting Game”
Immediately after Israel’s latest unprovoked strike on Syria we posed the question, did Benjamin Netanyahu just panic? The answer is yes, Israel is now acting from a
US Diplomacy Is Foundering
It is amazing yet somehow impressive how Washington manages in such a convoluted fashion to make so many countries irritated and resentful. There’s an art
While Trump tweets, Putin steals a march on North Korea
The message from the two-day Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) conference, which concluded in Vladivostok on Thursday, is that Russia’s “pivot to Asia” in recent years,
Damascus’ Victory in the “Dash For Deir Ez-Zor” Might Dash the Kurds’ “Federalization” Plans
The “Race for Raqqa” might have long been over ever since the Kurdish-led “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) reached the northern edge of Daesh’s so-called “capital”
Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis is Killing the West Too
Myanmar, the place we used to call Burma, has come back into the spotlight Western governments always try and keep it away from. Much is
Gauging the Aftermath of Turkey’s Great Intelligence Gaffe
The latest scandal coming out of Turkey reads like a novel by Tom Clancy or John le Carre: spies, kidnapping, assassination attempts and terrorists. Given the seriousness
