There are no flotillas on the way to save Iran. No Soros-funded "democracy" groups pressuring Western governments to intervene on behalf of civilians who are being arrested and murdered. No astroturfing movement demanding economic boycotts. When ...
Trump's war with Iran is not popular - and that's no surprise. Critics of the war are correct about one very important thing: It is messy. The Strait of Hormuz remains dangerous. Oil markets are volatile. The risk of escalation has not disappeared.
Will President Trump fall prey to the "Pottery Barn Doctrine"? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds that when you break something - in this case, a nation, rather than a vase - you own it. As Trump ...
President Donald Trump recently announced that he's postponing strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure for five days to negotiate a ceasefire. "I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody," he told journalists. It's ...
Give at least a couple of cheers for coercive diplomacy, which is to say diplomacy through bombing. As the Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz told us a couple hundred years ago, "war is the continuation of politics," or diplomacy, "by ...
Donald Trump has been the greatest, most clear-eyed and most transformative foreign policy president of my lifetime. But Trump is also the famed businessman who wrote "The Art of the Deal" four decades ago. There has therefore always been the risk ...
The cost of shipping oil in supertankers surged to fresh record highs this week following the biggest wave of attacks on Middle East shipping since the start of the US-Iran war.