Although the U.S. has been involved in multiple endless wars, none of them have posed an existential threat. That’s because none of them have been against a serious military power, one with well-trained conventional forces and extensive nuclear weapons, like…
Thanks to the Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, we are witnessing a tectonic shift in the Muslim world. The UAE, Bahrain, Kosovo, Sudan, and Morocco have normalized relations with Israel and recognized the Jewish people’s right to self-determination….
What happens when an irresistible army meets the unmovable people? We may find out in Burma. The Southeast Asian country appears to be moving toward convulsion, collapse, and chaos. The ultimate result might be civil war. Burma, also known as…
Today, senior diplomats from the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Russia, France, Germany, and China meet in Vienna, home of Mozart and Beethoven, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and many magnificent churches built during the Habsburg Monarchy. Against this elegant…
As schools in the United Kingdom recover from the year-long disruption caused by COVID-19, a small grammar school in the west Yorkshire town of Batley has been catapulted into the national and international headlines. On Thursday, March 25, pickets closed…
Last week, while toothlessly condemning Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, the Biden administration also called on U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Oman to support “diplomatic efforts” to end the Yemeni Civil War. This followed several Houthi drone and missile operations,…
I don’t follow British politics closely. But it’s clear enough that the Conservative Party in the UK isn’t very conservative. I receive the party’s ConservativeHome webpage daily, billed as “the home of conservatism,” and I rarely trip over anything in…
You’ve got dictators, and you’ve got dictators. Some like Stalin and Mao killed tens of millions of their own people, but actually convinced themselves it was for the overall good of the remainders. Some like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez…
Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 on March 2. Few Americans think of him, or his country, the Soviet Union, these days. Most people barely remember his name, which seems lost to the mists of time. He became General Secretary of the…
