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with pakistan to come on saturday. —— sunday. the champions league continues later — with more teams with the chance to make the knockouts. manchester city are there now — but neighbours united cant afford any more slips, after losing their first two games. theyre in denmark to face copenhagen later. marcus rashford is back in the squad after missing uniteds last premier league match through injury. not because of his decision to have a birthday party after they lost the manche...

The recent death of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s president, in a helicopter crash, put me in mind of a comment misattributed to Mark Twain: “I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” (It’s actually a paraphrase of a com

No matter what one may think of Donald Trump’s personality and antics, it is undeniable that many of his policies were successful. One of the pillars of former President Trump’s foreign policy was to prioritize economic growth, especially by leveraging th

US foreign policy is in shambles, characterized by drift and incoherence. It is, at best, a-strategic and, at worst, non-strategic, lacking any concept of how to apply limited resources to obtain our foreign policy goals because this administration appear

It has now been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Once dominating foreign policy news, the conflict has slipped off the front page as other crises—especially the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the Southern US border emergency—have led the new

Just over a century ago, Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Russian Communist Party who orchestrated the October Revolution, died. We should not lament his death, for his revolution unleashed a century of crimes against humanity.

What should American citizens make of the recent disappearance of Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin for three days earlier this month? Austin was admitted to intensive care at Walter Reed on January 1,

Earlier this month, some 12,000 illegal migrants crossed the US southern border in one day, setting a new record. According to an October report of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered 269,735 illegal i

The legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 this past week, will be debated for a very long time. But there is no question that his contributions to US foreign policy, both as a practitioner and scholar, were outsized. He was a practitioner

If China takes Taiwan in a fait accompli, US credibility in Asia would be shattered. To prevent such an epoch-changing shift, former CIA hand Elbridge Colby argues in an important new book that Beijing must be forced assume the burden of any offensive it undertakes while standing condemned before the altar of world opinion,. In other words, to replay Athens at Syracuse, Germany in the Battle of Britain, and Argentina in the Falklands