By Dr. David Wurmser July 29, 2021 In a summer of brewing crises, from Havana through Caracas to Tehran (and other Iranian cities), Lebanon’s descent into crisis tends to be overlooked. And yet, it is part of a larger picture in which our greatest adversaries are on the ropes (Communists in Cuba and Venezuela, the […]
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Republicans are suddenly tougher than Democrats on Russia and China. The Trump era is truly over. This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on July 27, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton July 27, 2021 The politics of American foreign policy are reverting to their modern norms, illustrated by […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on July 15, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton July 15, 2021 Washington’s current conventional wisdom on the utility and viability of America’s alliances is “Trump bad, Biden good.” The idea being: Former President Donald Trump harmed our partnerships, formal and informal alike; allies doubted […]
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His thinking on arms control proved prescient—but the howls reverberate to this day. This article appeared in Foreign Policy on July 1, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton July 1, 2021 Donald Rumsfeld’s remarkable record of public service encompassed critical periods of U.S. history. He began with what was already […]
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This article appeared in The Daily News on June 29, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 29, 2021 Since taking office, President Biden has unswervingly sought to have the United States rejoin, as rapidly as possible, the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). […]
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This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on June 21, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 21, 2021 The Biden administration is working hard to re-enter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Readers of David Albright’s “Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons,” however, will realize that it is Washington, […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Examiner on June 19, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 19, 2021 Iran’s hard-line mullahs left nothing to chance in Friday’s presidential election. The man they wanted to win, Ebrahim Raisi, did so handily against a carefully limited field of rivals. In 2017, Raisi […]
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The US President’s incoherent strategy makes the forthcoming summit a worrying one for the West This article appeared in The Telegraph on June 13, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton June 13, 2021 Joe Biden’s first summit with Vladimir Putin this week comes relatively early in his new administration, so […]
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By Dr. David Wurmser June 14, 2021 Over the last week, there have been increasing signs that Hamas may be preparing to re-initiate hostilities, starting along the border at a trickle, and then more as they go along. These threats should be taken seriously since the underlying tectonic forces that in part led to the […]
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This article appeared in The Washington Post on May 30, 2021. Click here to view the original article. By John Bolton May 30, 2021 The United States and the European Union made a strategic mistake last summer by mishandling the unprecedented protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s autocratic regime. Now, after Lukashenko’s commission of air […]
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