As Middle East Fades, Africa Rises In U.S. Strategic View Thanks to President Trump’s America First approach, the U.S. is now the world’s biggest energy exporter. And that new reality is affecting more than just the price of a gallon of gas…
From A Charred Hulk, To A New Birth Of Freedom Sometimes individual events occur that bring larger trends into stark perspective. The burning of Notre Dame Cathedral this week was one of those events…
What’s At Stake For U.S. In Ukraine Election? Nothing To answer the question — what is at stake for the United States in the poll that will determine whether incumbent President Petro Poroshenko or comedian Volodymyr Zelensky runs Ukraine for the next several years? Nothing…
Don’t Look Now, But The Economies Of Repressive Governments Are Under Stress The legacy of the Trump administration will be one of finally confronting vexing international problems that all recent presidents failed for one reason or another to address with any credibility…
Swedish Case Shows How The West Went Off The Rails Let’s put the fight between East and West and geopolitics aside for a moment, and focus on the human dimension…
Tension Between EU And Turkey Moves Into Consumer Arena Tensions between the European Union and Turkey have flared in recent years over Middle East migration, election campaigning by Turks inside Europe and the stalled EU accession for the Central Asian nation. The purchase of Russian S-400 air defense systems by the NATO member has also ratcheted up the ill will between the EU and Turkey. The political stress now seems to be moving into the consumer arena…
