Foreign Policy

When the White House press shop tells a former Secretary of State to shut his stupid mouth, the public sees the language and misses the substance. The substance is that Pompeo's argument on Iran was correct on the merits.

Cuba hosts Russian military assets, shelters American fugitives, and runs fentanyl corridors into Florida. The Hill calls Trump's Cuba stance a pretext. It isn't a pretext. It's a plain reading of documented facts.

Kosovo's collapsed government, Serbian pressure from the north, and Russian interference threaten 27 years of American investment in Balkan stability. With 600 U.S. troops still at Camp Bondsteel, Washington cannot afford to treat this as someone else's problem.

Ukraine's war enters its fifth year with no end in sight. Zelenskyy is asking for more weapons and more time. But with $175 billion spent and 600,000 casualties, the case for a negotiated peace has never been stronger.

Kosovo's coalition government collapsed in early 2026 amid disputed elections and ethnic tensions, putting 700 American troops in KFOR on alert. After 27 years and $6.3 billion spent, the Balkans are demonstrating that managed conflicts don't solve themselves.

Maximum pressure on Iran requires sustained American economic capacity. That capacity is being eroded by tariffs, inflation, and political exhaustion at exactly the wrong strategic moment.

Jet fuel prices are spiking because of the Iran conflict. Airlines are canceling flights. Travelers are paying more. This was preventable.

Trump's approval numbers are sliding. The Iran conflict is squeezing the economy. An honest editorial demands we ask: what exactly are we winning, and who's paying for it?

Congress is finally moving to reassert its constitutional authority over war. Whether it means it this time is a different question entirely.

The 'America is launching a crusade' narrative requires America to be something it demonstrably isn't. A nation that can't fill its churches isn't launching holy wars.

Israel hit Tehran. Trump held back on the power plants. Every pundit is calling it a crack in the alliance, they're reading it exactly backwards.

Strategic patience isn't weakness, it's how you win. Trump's instinct to push hard is right. The timeline pressure he's applying to Ukraine and Iran is wrong.

The ceasefire fantasy is collapsing in real time. Iran has never wanted peace, it wants survival on its own terms. That's not negotiable.

Jayapal and Meeks want to defund any military action in Cuba. Ask them what they've done for the people Cuba has been brutalizing for sixty years.

Kent's resignation from a key intel role isn't a crisis for the Trump coalition. It's proof the coalition can still think.

Netanyahu said Israel acted alone against Iran's gas compound. What that means for American deterrence strategy cannot be overstated.

JD Vance is positioning himself as the restraint candidate for 2028. His stepped-up role on Iran isn't foreign policy leadership, it's a presidential campaign.

Critics who blame American intervention in Iran for today's crisis have the causation exactly backwards, and the prescription they're selling would make everything worse.

Every trade war, every NATO shakedown, every bilateral pressure campaign points to the same target. The press corps finally noticed.

Trump says he's not ready to declare victory on Iran. Good. The graveyard of American foreign policy is littered with premature end zones.

The elevation of a US-sanctioned, theologically thin successor at the moment of Iran's maximum military vulnerability is not a transition, it's a crisis wearing a crown.

Declaring victory is step one. The harder work is ensuring the conditions that make Iranian resurgence impossible, and that requires political will that outlasts the news cycle.

Surgical strikes and diplomatic off-ramps have failed for forty years. The only path to regional stability runs through Tehran's government collapsing.

When a president announces a military strike date in advance, it's not a threat. It's a message. The question is who's receiving it.

Nancy Pelosi wants you to forget what happened in 2011. She's counting on it.

Republican anxiety about a 'forever war' with Iran is legitimate. But anxiety alone doesn't produce strategy.

The most sanctioned man in Tehran just inherited the most dangerous job in the Middle East. Here's what that means for every American with skin in this fight.

Twenty years of European-led diplomacy got us a nuclear Iran on the doorstep of the bomb. Trump's willingness to put military options on the table isn't recklessness, it's the first honest policy in a generation.

Americans are wary of another Middle East military commitment. That wariness is legitimate. It's also insufficient as a basis for grand strategy.

Sixty-five years of communist misery on an island 90 miles from Florida, and Washington spent most of that time looking the other way. Trump isn't looking away.

A top Democrat can't explain why Obama bombing Libya without congressional approval was fine, but Trump striking Iran is a constitutional crisis. The silence says everything.

House Democrats are scrambling to pass a war powers resolution on Iran. The politics are obvious, the constitutional argument is selective, and the strategy is pure theater.

While critics demand endless diplomatic theater, Trump's pressure campaign against Iran has achieved more in months than a decade of nuclear deals failed to produce.