Max Fisher, NYT
In his Twitter post on Thursday announcing that policy, Mr. Trump said his goal was that âÂÂthe world comes to its senses regarding nukes.âÂÂIt is not clear what that means. But whatever his intention, analysts say that Mr. Trump's stated desire to provoke an arms race does have a foreseeable range of outcomes.
Niall Ferguson, Foreign Policy
Moscow may no longer be a superpower, but its revanchist politics are unsettling the international order. How should Donald Trump deal with Vladimir Putin?
Peter Beaumont, Guardian
The United Nations security council has adopted a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in the occupied territories after Barack Obama's administration refused to veto the resolution.
Lederer, et al. AP
The U.S. green light that allowed the UN Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem could spur moves toward new terms to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it also poses dangers for the United Nations with the incoming Trump administration and may harden Israel's attitude toward concessions.
Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
As Venezuela's health system collapses and 85 percent of drugs are impossible or difficult to find there, thousands are crossing the border to look for basic medical care in Colombia. But cash-strapped Colombian hospitals say they don't know how they'll keep providing services.
Terry Glavin, National Post
With the fall of Aleppo, it's like Sept. 11 all over again. Instead of hologram airplanes, it's Syria's courageous White Helmets brigades cast as CIA spies.
Ahmed Hidji, Al-Monitor
Following the attack on Cairo's largest Coptic church, Egyptian Copts held demonstrations condemning President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his administration for failing to protect them, although others maintain their support.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
A new report from Congress casts aspersions but hides the facts.
Mark Mann, Toronto Life
Jim Estill put up $1.5 million to bring 58 families to Canada. He found them homes, gave them jobs and even bought one man a dollar store. How the mild-mannered CEO of an appliance company became the Oskar Schindler of Guelph.
Dennis Ross, New York Daily News
The Trump administration cannot say it is going to be tougher on Iran and at the same time partner with Russia in Syria -- the two goals are mutually exclusive under the current circumstances.
Konrad Yakabuski, Globe & Mail
The Japanese Prime Minister will choose his words carefully, but they will likely be heard loud and clear by China and in incoming U.S. president.
M. Wilner, JPost
"We would have vetoed any resolution that sought to impose parameters or stated a view on final status issues."Ã
Andrea Noel, The Daily Beast
Extraordinary violence has become perfectly ordinary in Mexico, and it takes no break for the holidays.
Kirk Bennett, The American Interest
Most items on notional agendas for U.S.-Russia cooperation are irrelevant or impossible to achieve, regardless of the tenor of the bilateral relationship.
Der Spiegel
Terror attacks bring people together. That, at least, is what used to happen. But the attack in Berlin has followed a different script, with the gap between those content to wait for the facts and those eager to score political points now wider than ever before. A look back at 48 hours that changed the country.
Elliott Abrams & Michael Singh, WaPo
America's abstention from the U.N. settlement vote doesn't move toward resolution.
Robert Kaplan, National Interest
Somewhere between Barack Obama and George W. Bush is where Trump's foreign policy should rest.