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  • Nov 18, 2025
    China recently launched its third aircraft carrier, an 80,000-ton monstrosity named Fujian. 
  • Oct 24, 2025
    As the White House ramps up pressure on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine, supporters of peace negotiations hope that a previously announced Trump–Putin summit in Budapest...
  • Oct 21, 2025
    Germany has been periodically mature and powerful—but never together”, a German diplomat told me over a quick dinner in Washington, DC, which is hauntingly beautiful on...
  • Sep 23, 2025
    An earthquake of a deal just happened in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia acquired virtually overnight protection beneath the Pakistani nuclear umbrella with the signing of a...
  • Sep 19, 2025
    After Russian drones infiltrated Polish airspace on September 9, Radosław Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister, told the Guardian, “Interestingly, they were all duds, which...
  • Sep 3, 2025
    In a multiethnic and democratic society, there needs to be imperial order and colonial-style policing.   
  • Aug 23, 2025
    Neither side wants to compromise, and we shouldn’t try to secure a fragile and unnatural equilibrium.   
  • Aug 19, 2025
    Ankara’s plans for regional hegemony will require patience—and there remains a major obstacle.  
  • Aug 8, 2025
    If America’s trade and foreign policies are now seemingly subservient to the question of immigration, it makes some sense as a negotiation ploy to start a trade war with India,...
  • Aug 1, 2025
    Within a span of 15 minutes on Wednesday, President Trump declared a 25 percent tariff on the United States’ “friend” India, and NASA and ISRO launched a radar...
  • Jul 15, 2025
    Elbridge Colby is apparently a troubled man. Bloomberg calls Colby, current undersecretary of defense for policy, a “deep state thinker in a shallow...
  • Jul 4, 2025
    Justin Marston is the founder and CEO of Mithril Defense, a drone startup based in Texas that aims to provide security solutions for domestic law and order problems. 
  • Jun 28, 2025
    There’s a certain observable pair of traits that dominate President Donald Trump’s foreign-policy calculus: He understands good and daring optics, but he hates protracted...
  • Jun 17, 2025
    Munich in winter is mildly depressing, unlike the traditionally sunny postcards replete with lagerbier and dirndl. The airport is pretty far from the Bayerischer Hof,...
  • Jun 5, 2025
    In April 2022, the U.S. and Ukraine were on a routine intelligence-sharing call. The U.S. notified the Ukrainians that Russian capital ships, including the flagship of Russia’s...
  • May 29, 2025
    “Commerce, not chaos” is the president’s preferred foreign policy. He should act on it and build his legacy in Greenland.   
  • May 14, 2025
    I wouldn’t say that the Russians are uninterested in bringing this thing to a resolution,” Vice President J.D. Vance said at the Munich Security Conference Leaders...
  • Apr 29, 2025
    Trump is ready to take advantage of Turkey’s new prominence to achieve his European goals.   
  • Apr 18, 2025
    The president is apparently frustrated that European states are sabotaging his peace process with Russia. There is a simple solution to that.  
  • Mar 25, 2025
    The recent bout of violence in Syria is the final act of reordering in the region.  
  • Mar 6, 2025
    Ifirst learned about CANZUK when I was in the final years of my doctoral program, sometime immediately after Brexit. A grouping promoted by some people who talk in lost...
  • Feb 18, 2025
    “Ukraine will never accept deals made behind our backs without our involvement. And the same rule should apply to all of Europe. No decision about Europe without Europe,”...
  • Jan 28, 2025
    Amid the ongoing furor about President Donald Trump’s designs on the Danish-held territory of Greenland, The American Conservative sat down with Naaja Nathanielsen,...
  • Jan 13, 2025
    Competing grand-strategic visions of Donald Trump’s new American century are emerging.