US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would continue to cooperate with Israel over Syria and in countering Iran in the Middle East, even as President Donald Trump plans to withdraw US troops from Syria. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he met with Pompeo in the Brazilian […]
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Foreign Policy
What Trump Ousting of SecDef Mattis Means for Russia, Syria & Afghanistan
By Scott Lucas | – The last adult in the Trump White House playground has gone – and the president is throwing his toys around. James Mattis, as defence secretary, was one of three retired generals in the Trump administration whose hope was to contain an ill-informed, temperamental, and unpredictable president. Now they’re all gone: […]
Is the US-Turkish Military Alliance Doomed?
by Thomas WATKINS | – Washington (AFP) – The crisis in US-Turkish relations, which already has put Turkey’s economy under massive strain, also risks souring military ties between the two NATO allies, unleashing unknown geopolitical consequences. US President Donald Trump last week announced new tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum, causing the country’s currency to […]
Trump and the Collapse of American Soft Power in the World
By Sara Greco | – Ottawa (The Conversation) – At the recent Helsinki summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president used the threat of nuclear war to justify good relations with a bad regime, just as he did in Singapore. His rhetoric included overzealous articulations about how the United States and Russia […]
Tripolarity: Are Trump, Putin & Xi Divvying up the World?
The pundits and politicians generally take it for granted that President Trump lacks a coherent foreign policy. They believe that he acts solely out of spite, caprice, and political opportunism — lashing out at U.S. allies like Germany’s Angela Merkel and England’s Theresa May only to embrace authoritarian rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North […]
US War on the Weak: Trump in Mideast helps Crush Palestinians, Yemenis
In the Trump era, Washington’s alliance with Israel has only grown tighter
Trump widens the cracks in world order’s foundations
Trump has shown his disdain for organizations where American leadership was once a given
Racism as Foreign Policy: Trump and the White Savior Industrial Complex
The Trump movement uses racism and immigration to turn the Roseanne Barrs of the world from eco-feminists to Trump supporters
Will biggest victim of Trump Golden Shower Diplomacy be global Rule of Law?
Trump has set a dark precedent for international diplomacy
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