Bonnie Kristian, 1945
The U.S. and South Korea have reached two agreements about the near-term future of the alliance, the Biden administration announced before the recent meeting in Seoul. First, the two governments worked out a
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
As the Syrian crisis enters its 11th year this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appealed for Western support in Syria in an apparent hope to advance plans for a safe zone along the Turkish border and hamper Russia in Idlib, if not revive his regime-change ambitions.
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M. Afzal & I. Saber, Brookings
Ordinary Americans display a significant degree of ambivalence on the question of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Veterans are also divided on this question but are more likely to show strong opinions on both sides of the spectrum. The data suggest that vocal,
Mark Hannah, New York Times
The foreign policy establishment just can't admit when it got things wrong.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg
The first high-level Chinese-American summit of Joe Biden's presidency unraveled before it began. In a moment reminiscent of the dueling bridal-shower speeches in "Bridesmaids," the U.S. and Chinese delegations returned to the podium after initial remarks to offer sharp retorts to what had just been said.
Matt Purple, The American Conservative
Major developments this week for America's legions of Dutch election watchers. Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, has won a fourth term. Rutte's center-right People's Party secured less than a quarter of the seats in parliament, but in the deeply fractured Dutch political system, that's enough for a plurality. It's also enough to form a government, provided Rutte is able to put together another coalition, which he almost certainly will.