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Biden Calls for a Free Iran

“We’re gonna free Iran,” said President Joe Biden on Thursday. “They’re gonna free themselves pretty soon.” A White House spokesperson appeared to back-pedal the statement the next day, saying that Biden was merely “expressing, again, our solidarity” with Iranian protestors rather than articulating a new U.S. policy. Still, the president’s declaration constitutes an apparent endorsement of regime change in Iran, implicitly repudiating his current policy, which centers on engaging the regime in hopes of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.

The Weaponization of Capital

Strategic Implications of China’s Private Equity/Venture Capital Playbook

Fascism for dummies

Those using the word should at least know what it means

America’s Regional Integration Scheme Benefits Iran

The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.

Europe’s Tiny Steps Won’t Solve Its Energy Emergency

The bad policies that created the crisis are still in place.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June

Energy in Conflict: The Case of the 2020 Armenia-Azerbaijan War

Excerpt With the rise in frequency of hybrid warfare, combatants in various conflicts are increasingly targeting domestic energy infrastructure and energy supply flows.1 In conventional warfare, militaries...

Priority #1 for NATO: Upgrading Air and Missile Defense in Eastern Europe

Russia’s launch of around 30 cruise missiles at a target in western Ukraine located just 12 miles from the Polish border came just one day after Moscow warned that convoys carrying Western arms...

In Iniochos Exercise, Israel Rehearses Iran Strikes as Saudis Observe

The Greek-hosted Iniochos 2022 military exercise began this week, with Athens welcoming military contingents from the United States, Israel, Cyprus, France, Italy, and Slovenia. The exercise, which also...

Engines of Influence

Turkey’s Defense Industry Under Erdogan

U.S. Should Seize and Sell Assets of Sanctioned Russian Elites to Aid Ukraine

A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enable Washington to seize and sell assets of sanctioned Russian elites and then use the proceeds to support Ukraine. As Washington...

Time to Sanction Russia’s Alternative to SWIFT

Per an agreement with Washington and other Western allies, the European Union last week prohibited the SWIFT financial messaging system from providing services to seven Russian banks sanctioned over Moscow’s...

Iran Approaches the Nuclear Threshold

Washington’s Narrowing Policy Options

Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia

Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest

Putin Just Pushed the World Into an Even Bigger Energy Crisis

Even without sanctions, Russia’s war will increase the shortage of oil and gas.

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice

If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.

The Coming Middle East Narco Wars

In April, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states temporarily banned the import of agricultural products from Lebanon. This was not a response to political events or to an overt...

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin