Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities, a syndicated foreign affairs columnist at the Chicago Tribune and a foreign affairs writer for Newsweek.
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On Saturday afternoon, US intelligence officials leaked an assessment: the Assad regime, which has ruled Syria for over half a century, could very well collapse in a manner of days. As one official told CNN, ‘Probably by next weekend the Assad regime will have lost any semblance of power.’ It turns out that Washington was giving Assad too
He is using the two-and-a-half months between Election Day and Inauguration Day to re-plunge himself into the world of international diplomacy
The Florida senator is one of the most hawkish options Trump could pick to head the State Department
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When Donald Trump won his first-ever election in 2016, the world woke up the next morning in a collective state of shock and disbelief. Washington’s allies in Europe were caught completely unprepared; all of a sudden, they had to contend with a leader who relished needling them for all kinds of sins, real and perceived.
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If you didn’t know any better, you might think the 2024 US presidential election was a make-or-break moment for America and the world. Allies and adversaries alike will be watching the election results like the rest of us: on the edge of our seats. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are at the centre of the universe
Dreaming about being a statesman is one thing; being one is quite another
He is still wedded to the same ultra-nationalist ministers post-Sinwar as he was when the Palestinian terrorist was still alive
It wants Israel to de-escalate but backs Israel up when it chooses to escalate
The attempt on Trump’s life comes when acts of political violence have disturbingly been on the rise
Although the two parties have modified some of their initial demands, their core positions haven’t moved
Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of munitions previously held up will now be delivered over the coming months
Israeli officials likely understood that the hit against the Hamas leader would have extremely serious consequences across the board
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In the two days since Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed vice president Kamala Harris as the Democratic party nominee, much attention has been devoted to the mechanics of Biden’s decision, which close advisers or family members may have convinced him to pull out and how the entire episode will shake up the
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There’s no point sugarcoating it: the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was a complete mess. Biden was listless, frail and confused. Trump was defiant, ranting and often incoherent. Kim Darroch, Britain’s former ambassador to the United States, summed it up well. ‘Every answer from Trump, if you listen to them carefully,
Zelensky would have preferred that the organization offered membership to his country yesterday
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Another year, another G7 Leaders’ summit. The confab between the world’s wealthiest democracies has long since become one of those boring events etched into the global diplomatic landscape, a more intimate and picturesque version of the UN General Assembly meetings held every September. Speeches are given. Private dinners are arranged. Handshakes and hugs proliferate. And
There is no Iranian version of Mikhail Gorbachev set to rise to his office
European leaders are operating as if the former president has already won, not wanting to be caught flat-footed yet again
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President Biden doesn’t give many sit-down television interviews, but when he does, he tends to make news. This week he sat down for an on-air session with CNN’s Erin Burnett, who asked him point-blank whether US bombs given to Israel have caused civilian casualties in Gaza. Biden’s response was notable not necessarily because the answer
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Very rarely do American presidents get policy wins in the Middle East. The region hasn’t been kind to the United States over the last thirty years. The signing of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty during the Jimmy Carter years and the U.S.-led military campaign against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War are two exceptions
