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Andreas Kluth
U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to give a news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday after Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro was captured and flown out of the country, having been indicted by a U.S. court.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2026
Trump is tying his legacy to whatever happens in Venezuela
The intervention probably also violates domestic U.S. law. It comes well after — if one starts the clock on Sept. 2 — when the U.S. struck the first boat in the Caribbean.
The so-called Donald Trump Corollary revives a distorted Monroe Doctrine to legitimize bullying in the Western Hemisphere, increasing instability and the risk of wider conflict.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2025
Turning the Monroe Doctrine into 'Donroe' is awful geopolitics
For the Trump administration, as Jay Sexton points out, trolling libs like Kerry is of course another plus for the Donroe Doctrine.
U.S. senators telling American troops they don’t have to obey illegal commands has sparked ire from President Donald Trump, underscoring the enduring principle that soldiers must follow conscience and the law above orders.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2025
The duty to disobey unlawful orders was America’s idea
Members of Congress made a video in which they remind active service members that "our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders."
The U.S.-China economic confrontation under Donald Trump's leadership is marked by chaos, a lack of strategy and internal divisions within U.S. circles, raising critical questions about the future of global diplomacy and trade.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
The U.S. has no China policy, no strategy and no clue
But tariffs were just the overture, as Washington and Beijing, tit-for-tat, started going after each other in every other way.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters while holding up electoral records during a rally in Caracas in August 2024. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday she was the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2025
Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize as Trump’s attempts to secure award fall short
Machado, as the committee put it, is known for her tireless work promoting democracy for Venezuelans and her struggle against dictatorship.
Military and national security leaders across major Western countries and the world show dangerous overconfidence and cognitive biases, risking global conflict.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Oct 9, 2025
Global war and the cognitive traps leaders don’t see
Even a cursory scan of today’s major military powers suggests that their leaders and policy elites are dangerously overconfident.
The United Nations Security Council holds a ministerial meeting on Ukraine during the U.N. General Assembly at the body's headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2025
The U.S. assault on the U.N. rests on a tragic misunderstanding
The Trump administration views the U.N. as a useless, woke cesspool. Instead, it reflects the world as it is, assembled to “save humanity from hell.”
A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025
America’s friends will never trust the U.S. again
A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
Experts warn the world is drifting dangerously close to disaster as North Korea, Russia and China expand their nuclear arsenals and old arms-control frameworks crumble.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2025
Even nuclear experts are at a loss right now
Who would have thought strategists would be almost nostalgic for the Cold War?
U.S. President Donald Trump’s support for Israel’s attack on Iran has sparked outrage among MAGA loyalists who see it as a betrayal of his anti-war promises.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 19, 2025
Trump's MAGA coalition won't survive a bunker-buster in Iran
As the U.S. president weighs whether to join Israel’s war against Iran, a rift cleaves his own base, not to mention the world.
Demonstrators hold a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's attacks on Harvard University at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2025
Stop scaring future world leaders off U.S. campuses
To the extent that a U.S. education gets others to think as Americans think, it is the ideal tool of soft power
U.S. President Donald Trump and his?“madman theory” won’t get Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei to scrap his nuclear program.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2025
Why should Iran believe anything the U.S. threatens or promises?
The Iranians — like the Russians — are notoriously shifty negotiators. But so are the Americans, now that they’re led by Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump's deal-focused approach to diplomacy may prevent a hostile China-Russia-North Korea-Iran alliance, but weakens U.S. global leadership.
COMMENTARY
Mar 27, 2025
The art of the deal meets a four-power axis
Trump's deal-focused approach may prevent a hostile China-Russia-North Korea-Iran alliance but weakens U.S. global leadership.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy departs following a contentious meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday. Plans to sign a critical minerals deal between the two nations were scrapped after the talks quickly devolved into a fiery exchange over U.S. support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 2, 2025
Trump’s Oval Office clash with Zelenskyy was a win for Putin
Nobody in Ukraine, or any other country formerly under Moscow’s boot, believes that Putin will honor the terms of a ceasefire without credible guarantees.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and wife Usha stand in front of an iron gate with the slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free") as they arrive for a tour of the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site in southern Germany on Feb. 13.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2025
Without America, ‘the West’ will splinter, wither and die
Trump and his movement do not share similar values, at least not unequivocally, and that is now sinking in across the rest of the West, which the U.S. has led for eight decades.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's provocative rhetoric targeting Panama, Greenland and Canada underscores his preference for bold power plays over traditional rules-based diplomacy.
COMMENTARY
Jan 13, 2025
Trump’s trash talk revives the worst of world politics
Trump's provocative rhetoric targeting Panama, Greenland and Canada underscores his preference for bold power plays over traditional rules-based diplomacy.
While some theorize that U.S. President Joe Biden's authorization for missile strikes in Russia is an attempt to "Trump-proof" U.S. policy but the more likely intent is responsible statecraft, providing the president-elect with a stronger hand in upcoming geopolitical dealings.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2024
With U.S. missile approval, Trump inherits a stronger Ukraine
U.S. President Biden’s permission for Ukraine to use ATACMS was long overdue but by itself won’t make a decisive military difference.
Feeling overshadowed by U.S. elections, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un might conduct a nuclear test, fire missiles, annul the Korean War armistice or demand territorial concessions.
COMMENTARY
Sep 23, 2024
Kim Jong Un will have his October surprise
Feeling overshadowed by U.S. elections, Kim Jong Un might conduct a nuclear test, fire missiles, annul the Korean War armistice or demand territorial concessions.
The scariest aspect of America’s recent debate is that Trump’s over-the-top comments revealed a serious risk that needs global attention, not just in the U.S.
COMMENTARY
Sep 15, 2024
Trump is right about WWIII, wrong on the analysis
The risks of nuclear war go beyond campaign hyperbole. What, though, should the U.S. do? Prepare for World War III? If it’s coming anyway, that would seem prudent.
The deepening rift and growing geopolitical divide between the United States and Europe threatens the trans-Atlantic alliance.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2024
The U.S. will abandon Europe. But when and how?
The deepening rift and growing geopolitical divide between the United States and Europe threatens the trans-Atlantic alliance.
Thai woman arrested in 性视界 for smuggling 'zombie cigarettes'
Seized cartridges containing etomidate are shown at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on Tuesday.
Government unveils tighter policies on immigration and foreign residents
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (far left) speaks in a meeting of ministers on policies regarding foreign nationals and immigration at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Sightseeing helicopter carrying three people goes missing in Kumamoto
What appears to a heavily damaged body of a helicopter is seen inside the crater of Mount Aso in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Tennis greats criticize Naomi Osaka for breach of 'basic etiquette'
Sorana Cirstea speaks to Naomi Osaka after their match at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
Growing number of anime studios setting up bases outside Tokyo to secure talent
Mappa’s employees work at the anime studio’s office in the city of Osaka in September. Some parts of the image are blurred for privacy reasons.
At peace with baseball and refusing to be benched by surgeries, Warren Cromartie mulls legacy
Former Giants star Warren Cromartie worked with Kazuma Okamoto during his stint as a guest hitting instructor for Yomiuri.
In calling a snap election this soon, Takaichi is making it personal
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announces her will to dissolve the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
U.S. and 性视界 turn to drones to help offset China’s military advantages
Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in the U.S. Central Command operating area in November.
Snap election in February presents wintry challenges in Hokkaido
Workers in Sapporo's Odori Park prepare for the annual Snow Festival, which will take place during next month's Lower House campaign and Feb. 8 election.
Shinkansen vs. Amtrak and the lost art of small talk
The Amtrak Cascades line provides service along the Pacific Northwest from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon.

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