In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Soviet ships heading for Cuba stopped short of the U.S. blockade line, Secretary of State Dean Rusk remarked, “We’re eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.” The…
On March 28, former American Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro announced that he was leaving the U.S. group in Vienna tasked with reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. Past U.S. adviser to…
On March 28, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the foreign ministers of Israel, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco convened in southern Israel for the Negev Summit. This is a key development in the Abraham Accords,…
What, if anything, is in President Biden’s mind when he makes statements such as those he made last week? Biden has declined to send Polish MiG-29s to Ukraine, which they need badly, because he believes it would be an escalation…
So how did that work when Joe Biden announced that Vladmir Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” only for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to follow up with a pay-no-attention-to-the angry-old-guy-shouting-at-the-clouds correction. According to Blinken, the United…
The latest in our world-famous drive-by punditry series: 1. What on Earth are these clowns doing? There is this story of the Biden administration’s half-hearted attempt to build a beefed-up Ukrainian air force on the fly amid a war, and…
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that every indication is that Russia is “prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine.” Biden added, “My sense is it will happen in the next several days.” Biden’s comments are just part of the Biden…
The foreign policy experts are debating the current crisis involving Russian troops on Ukraine’s border and what our response should be in the event of a Russian incursion or invasion. Officials in Washington and in foreign policy think tanks use…
In November, Secretary of State Antony Blinken removed Nigeria from the State Department’s list of countries hostile to religious freedom. The move flabbergasted religious freedom advocates, including members of the U.S. government’s own Commission on International Religious Freedom. That commission…
