Trump Envoys Fail to Make Breakthrough While Russian Forces Threaten Exactly That
Attempts by the Trump Administration to restart peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow have come up short in producing…
Tag: Analysis
S. Korean President Proposes New Round of Dialogue as Trump Again Reduces Commitments to Peninsula
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung used the occasion of the country’s day to commemorate freedom from Japanese domination to…
Trump’s War on Iran Now Solely Centered Around Hormuz
Story at a glance… The war on Iran has coalesced almost entirely into a battle for control over the…
“Mood Inside Iran Is Not Triumphant. It Is Watchful”—The Peace Deal’s Shaky First Day
On June 19th, WaL sat down with Tehran-based Geopolitical Analyst Peiman Salehi to get a sense of the feelings inside the…
Iran Strike Injures 5 Americans, Showing the Cost of Trump’s Failure to Negotiate Seriously
On May 28th, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. (IRGC) struck an American air base in Kuwait, destroying 1, potential…
While the Post Brags About Minimal Russian Gains Ukraine Sees a Desertion Every 2 Minutes
A Ukrainian MP recently made an unsubstantiated claim that there were 400,000 open and ongoing cases of desertion from…
Embattled Armenian PM Makes Impassioned Plea to End ‘Soviet KGB Narrative’ vs Azerbaijan
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on the negotiations to end the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and normalize relations…
Lessons from History Loom Large as Trump Weighs War Options in Venezuela
A report in the New York Times claims that Trump has major legal and military considerations to make having arrived at…
09/25 End of the Empire: Qatar PM Says Country “Enraged” at Israel’s Strike: it Ought to Be
End of the Empire is a once-monthly feature on all news relating to the transition from the unipolar world…
Consequences of Israel-US Attack on Iran to Reverberate Across East Asia
Story at a glance… Following the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran’s civilian nuclear program, key security paradigms in…
Ukrainian Forces Holding While Losing–Pressed in Three Major Areas
The Gazans must have felt the umbrage as international media spotlights shifted to Tehran and Tel Aviv after the…
Iran Demonstrates it Can Strengthen its Retaliations While Israelis Question Leadership
Story at a glance… Israeli leadership is being questioned over the issues of inadequate protection from Iranian air strikes.…
Turkish Jets Intercept, ‘Warn Off’ Israeli Warplanes Bombing in Syria
Another of what may become many in-theater confrontations between Turkish and Israeli militaries inside Syria took place on Sunday…
Setbacks and Distractions Risk Total Unraveling of Trump Foreign Policy Aims
On the campaign trail, Trump talked of having learned lessons from his first term in office, that he “didn’t…
Trump Team’s Russia Negotiations Rightly Shatter Europe and Kyiv’s Remaining Illusions
A round of talks between the chief diplomats of Russia and the US in Saudi Arabia regarding how to…
Russian Forces Close in on Last Major Donbas Town While Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Garners Little
The new year has seen a renewed effort by the Ukrainian army to advance into Russia’s home oblast of…
Sharia Law in Damascus Portrayed as Downfall of a Tyrant While in Kabul it’s a Human Rights Violation
Story at a glance… Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s leader al-Jolani has announced that the new Syria will be governed by…
What Chance Is There That US-North Korea Talks Resume Under Trump?
Of the many foreign policy challenges facing Donald Trump in his second term, fewer share the stark contrasts of…
Early Signs Suggest Trump May Have Learned Lessons from First Term – at Least Partially
In a recent statement on X, Donald Trump announced that two former cabinet members, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,…
White House Advisor Urges Israel to Carpet Bomb UN Peacekeepers, Smotrich Says Israel Will Extend to Damascus
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was recently filmed saying that Israel should extend its borders “bit by bit” to…