President Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday.
For years, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been maligned in Europe as Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s man in the Balkans. There is only one problem with this portrayal: reality keeps getting in the way. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first visit to Serbia. Ukraine’s president came to Belgrade to discuss economic cooperation, […]
Every election cycle, political campaigns ask the same question: Where will the next votes come from? The answers are usually predictable. Campaigns spend millions persuading swing voters, increasing turnout among their base, and competing for demographic groups that both parties have pursued for decades. These efforts matter, but they often overlook a more fundamental reality: […]
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of North Korea? Most likely, it is missiles. News that North Korea has launched a missile is no longer extraordinary. Ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, short-range projectiles — the names and types vary, but the sheer fact that Pyongyang has tested another weapon no […]
The ongoing geopolitical standoff between Washington and Tehran is frequently analyzed through a traditional lens of military strategy, but its most defining feature is actually behavioral. Observers are routinely baffled by a recurring cycle of communication: The American presidency issues warnings of total destruction, only to transition seamlessly within days to declaring that an historic […]
I’m a glass-is-half-empty sort of guy when it comes to elections. I always see the race that could go wrong, the supposedly safe seat that isn’t safe, and the political wave that could disappear before reaching shore. But pessimism isn’t the same thing as denial. Republicans need a sober, detached assessment of 2026 because nobody […]
When the George W. Bush administration launched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq more than two decades ago, China found itself in an extraordinarily favorable strategic position. While the United States devoted vast military, political, and financial resources to the Middle East, Beijing largely stayed out of the fray, quietly “concealing its strengths and biding […]
Equal parts George Orwell and unrestrained teenage hormones, director Will Gluck’s One Night Only imagines a dystopian America where a religious administration has banned premarital sex. The preposterous prohibition is enforced through biometric sensors that detect certain hormonal spikes and summon SWAT teams to thwart your carnal endeavors. The only caveat to this prudish regime, […]
For decades, Madrid’s leftist foreign policy establishment has substituted strategic clarity with moral bankruptcy, quietly strengthening Iran’s military-industrial capacity. At the same time, Washington policymakers indulge in the delusion that Europe stands united against Islamist aggression. While the trend spans ideological lines, socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero truly opened the floodgates. Spain’s own […]