It’s no secret that Iran has been steering Hezbollah’s operations in Southern Lebanon, overseeing Hamas’s (now dwindling) presence in Gaza, and funneling arms and aid to a slew of terrorist agents across the Middle East. Through such covert maneuvers, Tehran…
“Idealists,” wrote Halford Mackinder in his 1919 geopolitical masterpiece Democratic Ideals and Reality, “are the salt of the earth; without them to move us, society would soon stagnate and civilization fade.” But idealism untempered by an appreciation of human limitations…
It’s deeply disconcerting to read the news each morning and find oneself thinking that the true prophet of our current condition is Lewis Carroll, the creator of Alice in Wonderland. Each day brings the feeling that we’ve truly passed down…
Russia has been secretly backing a Catalan separatist movement which conducted an illegal referendum some years ago and is now key for maintaining Spain’s socialists in power, according to Spanish authorities investigating activities in Spain’s northeast region by Russian intelligence…
The killing of three U.S. soldiers and the wounding of more than 40 other American troops in Jordan by Iranian-backed proxies has led some American political leaders and observers to call for direct U.S. attacks on Iran. Joseph Epstein, writing…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now warns that Iran has enough nuclear material to make several atomic bombs. Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium to near full weapons-grade levels, and it continues to deny inspectors…
Each morning for the last several days I’ve turned first for news concerning the two SEALs lost at sea off the coast of Somalia, hoping—by this moment, hoping against all hope—that they will somehow be found alive. I’ve been privileged…
The Israel-Hamas war has placed a spotlight on the absurdity enveloping the parts of the Arab world subjected to Iranian interference: Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. Despite being afflicted by deepening financial and humanitarian crises and not having been attacked…
Beijing has spent the last several decades pressuring and threatening Taiwan, the island roughly 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, so no one was surprised when, during his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan’s…
The Yemeni-based Houthi rebel attacks on global commerce and trade finally produced a response from the Biden administration (and the United Kingdom) in the form of targeted air strikes on Houthi military facilities, such as “command and control nodes, munitions,…