Iran, Time, and the Test of Diplomacy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrival in Washington this week is not a routine diplomatic engagement. It comes at a moment of strategic significance , as the United States resumes indirect negotiations with Iran under Omani mediation and reassesses its broader posture. Any serious discussion of Iran must begin with reality, not aspiration. The Islamic Republic […]
The Case for Foreign Intervention in Iran
As with many contemporary challenges, the case for foreign intervention in Iran has a clear precedent: NATO’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia against the murderous regime of Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. That regime did not pose a direct military threat to NATO. Instead, the intervention that took place was moral and humanitarian, initiated in response […]
Leading Humanity to the Stars Through US-Israel Partnership
Israel has emerged as a beacon of innovation, from drip irrigation sustaining arid lands to cybersecurity fortifying digital realms, and missile defense systems that shield populations. These achievements stem from a culture of necessity-driven ingenuity, mandatory military service channeling young talent into high-technology engineering, and a startup ecosystem that boasts more companies per capita than […]
Yemen Is Not a Gulf Rivalry—It Is a Test of Whether Extremism Can Be Contained
For years, Yemen has been misread in Washington and beyond as a peripheral conflict driven primarily by Gulf rivalries, regional egos, or tactical miscalculations among partners. This interpretation is not only incomplete—it is strategically dangerous. Yemen is not a sideshow of Middle Eastern politics; it is a frontline theater in a broader struggle over whether […]
Iran Faces Mass Atrocities; Iranians Fight for Their Renaissance
Mass killings, foreign militias, and post-mortem extortion reveal a crimes-against-humanity logic the world can no longer ignore. Iran today stands at a threshold: not of reform, but of survival. The massacres of January 9 and 10, resulting in an estimated 20,000 deaths, illustrate the scale of the atrocities (tbsnews.net) and signify more than a crackdown—they […]
A Key to Greenland’s Future Development
The Inter-American Development Bank should be central to the next chapter of Greenland’s development, with US backing. The island possesses enormous mineral wealth and significant port, road, and potentially digital infrastructure and energy infrastructure needs. Greenland’s development is tied to its importance to hemispheric Arctic security and missile defense; its people also maintain strong ties […]
The Origins of the Third Reich
Götz Aly, “ Wie konnte das Geschehen. Deutschland 1933-1945 “ (How Could This Happen? Germany 1933-1945), S. Fischer, 2025 In 1936, the year of the Berlin Olympics, the scholar W.E.B. Du Bois traveled through Hitler’s Germany. Germany was not unfamiliar territory for him: four decades earlier, Du Bois had studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University […]
The Crisis in Northeast Syria
The unfolding events in northeast Syria represent a profound tragedy, not only for the Kurdish people in Syria but for the broader quest for stability in the Middle East. Syria’s transitional government under Ahmed al-Shara’a feels empowered by increasing regional and global recognition and has interpreted this as carte blanche for forcible consolidation. Its forces […]
Shelby Magid: Ukraine is holding and Russia is bogged down
In an interview with Jacob Heilbrunn, the Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council delivers a clear assessment: despite a campaign of terror waged by Moscow, the Ukrainian state remains resilient. No decisive Russian breakthrough, a government firmly in place, a society that holds together, and a Ukraine that continues to innovate, resist, and already prepare […]
The Benefits of Removing Maduro
Making foreign policy is very often a compromise between supporting one’s values and securing one’s interests, between moral clarity and strategic realism. In removing Nicolas Maduro from power, Donald Trump was able to advance both American values and American interests. Maduro, in the name of “twenty-first century socialism,” crushed press freedom and political opposition. Amnesty […]
