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President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China comes just days after the conclusion of U.S. President Donald Trump’s official visit to Beijing. The timing is notable. Putin’s trip was originally scheduled for February 2026, but was postponed…

When the Israeli right invokes the term “Greater Israel,” it is usually understood as an expansionist concept aimed at enlarging the territory Israel claims as its own. This interpretation is certainly correct. Since its inception, Israel…

President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week carrying three sharply competing narratives about American power, strategic leverage, and Washington’s ability to shape events in an increasingly unstable world. To his supporters, Trump…

Before the situation became more complicated in recent hours, and critical moments began echoing across the region once more, U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed that the United States and Iran are close to finalizing an agreement on…

When we were studying in Germany during the 1970s, the country was crowded with organizations of the new Iranian leftist student movements, while inside Iran the Communist Tudeh Party was the strongest political force, unmatched in…

Far too many world leaders have chosen to mollify the bullying US president. Pope Leo XIV has shown there’s another way. Sometimes, the “good guys” do wear white hats. Well, sort of. The “good guy” I am referring to is the…

For 21 hours, Americans and Iranians sat down in Islamabad and spoke face to face. It was a candid discussion  no social media posts, no Tomahawk missiles. Just person to person, human to human. There was a path forward. But it was shut.…

The two-week ceasefire has resulted in a partial freeze of the Israeli-American war on Iran a war that has achieved nothing that a skilled diplomat could not have accomplished in a single afternoon session. The Strait of Hormuz was open…

On February 28, Israel and the United States launched an airstrike against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The attack, which lacked any moral or legal justification, resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several senior…

The ongoing war of choice launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has shattered the geopolitical status quo in the Middle East. As Washington finds itself entangled in yet another costly quagmire, reports increasingly suggest…