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Dec 2, 2025
The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade. It’s part of a cycle that has defined the U.S. body...
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Nov 17, 2025
A few weeks ago, I cited the dismissal of nine senior generals from the People’s Liberation Army by Chinese President Xi Jinping as potential evidence that Xi’s health...
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Nov 11, 2025
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump met in Washington with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – all former members of the Soviet...
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Nov 8, 2025
A battle is raging in Pokrovsk, located in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. It is part of Russia’s attempt to encircle Ukrainian forces stationed there. The intent is...
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Aug 25, 2025
Last week, in my column in which I answer readers’ questions, I wrote that the United States must calibrate and measure its geopolitical interests in Ukraine with the...
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Aug 11, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15. They had spoken many times over the phone, and though there...
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Jul 28, 2025
Last month, President Donald Trump declared – not for the first time – the drug cartels in Latin America to be international terrorists. And to some extent, they are,...
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Jul 22, 2025
In analyzing the process by which the Russia-Ukraine war will end, the most critical factor, as I have argued before, is that by not defeating Ukraine, Russia already has lost the...
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Jul 9, 2025
There are moments when I am exhausted by crises that come and go, and remember the next real existential crisis of humanity. It puts things in perspective. Please forgive my...
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Jun 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has developed a clear model for exercising diplomacy. He begins by making demands of other nations, then calls for negotiations. If the negotiations do...
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Jun 24, 2025
The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities has raised an important constitutional issue. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war. It was a wise and...
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Jun 16, 2025
The Ukrainian drone attack on Russia at the beginning of this month and the Israeli attack on Iran have some striking similarities.
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Jun 11, 2025
My ongoing trip to Europe has brought me to Hungary, the country in which I was born.
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Jun 6, 2025
I first visited Serbia in the early 1970s. At the time, I was genuinely unaware that I was in Serbia. I thought I was visiting Yugoslavia, and though I realized it had many...
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Jun 3, 2025
My wife and I arrived in Romania last Wednesday after a two-night stopover and time adjustment in Frankfurt. We stayed in Bucharest with Antonia Colibasanu, who lives in Romania and...
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May 27, 2025
Germany’s decision to deploy a permanent force of 5,000 soldiers to Lithuania is extremely significant because it signals the next phase of a new geopolitical era.
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May 22, 2025
It has been about three months since U.S. President Donald Trump began the negotiation process with Russian President Vladimir Putin for peace in Ukraine. Many discussions have...
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May 6, 2025
Europe has become a lightning rod in the United States lately, particularly with regard to the U.S.’ desire to stop guaranteeing European security. It’s become vogue to...
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Apr 28, 2025
Wars – which I will define broadly as matters of military conflict sustained partly by the nature of the soldiers fighting and partly by a participating nation’s ability...
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Apr 23, 2025
I normally avoid personalizing geopolitical events, since I regard nations, not leaders, to be the agents of history. But there are moments when the focus must be on leaders,...
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Apr 17, 2025
Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical force or the hand of God, but the idea that the pursuit...
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Apr 7, 2025
There are two analytic principles worth repeating before delving into the raft of tariffs the Trump administration issued last week. The first is that we have entered into...
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Mar 24, 2025
Senior officials from China, South Korea and Japan will soon meet in Tokyo to try to establish a more formal relationship, replete with security and economic benefits. Informal talks...
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Mar 19, 2025
When the United States entered talks with North Vietnam near the end of the Vietnam War, it hadn’t been militarily defeated, but it had failed in its mission to destroy the...
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Mar 3, 2025
Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023, was not Israel’s first intelligence failure. In the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Israel was surprised by Egypt and Syria’s two-front...
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Feb 5, 2025
In the United States, a new socio-economic cycle shows its hand, its flaws and its power over time as a president, sometimes heedless of the emerging reality, manages the political...
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Jan 15, 2025
Many look from afar at the current political, social and economic turmoil in the United States and see it as a sign of American decline. In my most recent book, “The Storm...
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Jan 9, 2025
America needs a sense of perspective. In this time, all is not wonderful, nor is it all terrible.
Mar 24, 2025Senior officials from China, South Korea and Japan will soon meet in Tokyo to try to establish a more formal relationship, replete with security and economic benefits. Informal talks...