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Jose Lev AlvarezWashington Examiner |
Diplomatic paralysis is no longer an accident at the State Department — it is an addiction. For generations, professional American diplomats have...
The State Department stubbornly clings to a phantom diplomacy, recognizing a corrupt, Islamist faction in Tripoli as Libya’s sole government. Yet,...
In January 1955, Congress answered Mao Zedong’s bombardment of Kinmen by passing the historic “Formosa Resolution.” This crucial legislation...
World War II turned on a black metal box. In September 1940, as German bombs devastated London, Sir Henry Tizard crossed the Atlantic carrying the...
Spain is rapidly becoming a serious hazard for international investors. Instead of upholding property rights, the country’s political climate now...
American military history began on Cyrenaica’s shores with the nation’s first post-independence victory abroad. When William Eaton and Presley...
Dominican security forces recently exposed a catastrophic regional failure during “Operación Armada,” a multi-city raid that seized 200 firearms...
The Abraham Accords have fallen off Washington and Jerusalem’s priority tables. Riyadh has frozen accession behind a Palestinian-state demand that...
In 1534, Spanish officials urged the Crown to garrison Mona Island as La llave de las Indias — the key to the Indies. Madrid refused, allowing...
Few Americans know that on July 2, 1866, Massachusetts Rep. Nathaniel P. Banks introduced H.R. 754 to annex British North America. Washington had just...
Geopolitical history shows that maritime charts follow guns, not forgettable diplomatic press releases. By discarding decades of State Department...
A dangerous autocracy is emerging on Europe’s southwestern flank, hidden behind a thin veneer of constitutional legitimacy. Prime Minister Pedro...
Fiction frequently anticipates friction. Fauda’s fifth season treats the French-Hamas nexus in Marseille as an operational fact, mirroring a grim...
King Abdullah II utilized his U.N. General Assembly address on Wednesday to weaponize regional grievances, branding Israel’s post-Oct. 7, 2023,...
Greenland is indisputably the front line of American homeland defense. For decades, Washington relied on a passive 1951 security framework that left...
European Union spokesman Anouar el Anouni recently demanded that the United States lift its visa ban on Palestinian Authority Dictator Mahmoud Abbas...
Yemen’s Houthis now command Perim Island and both shores of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This explosive geography triggers immediate economic...
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had barely reached the European Parliament podium in Strasbourg on Sept. 17, 2026, when German lawmaker Siegbert...
French diplomats often lecture Washington on counterterrorism, yet Paris has spent decades cutting cynical deals with the world’s worst terrorists....
Saudi air defense forces just intercepted an explosive Houthi drone flying south of Mecca. The close call exposes the fatal strategic rot inside the...
Spain currently hosts approximately 3,700 American troops at Rota and Moron but routinely bars those vital bases and its airspace whenever Washington...
In August 1974, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger ordered U.S. commanders to confirm any nuclear launch order from Richard Nixon with him or Henry...
President Donald Trump’s Latin America policy fails because Washington misclassifies existential threats, treating regional slaughter as street...
Washington consistently misreads modern geopolitical conflict. While American defense planners obsess over hypothetical, high-technology set-piece...
President Donald Trump proved that the “extraction method” works. On Jan. 3, 2026, Operation Absolute Resolve lifted Venezuelan dictator Nicolas...
The ghost of the 1936 Montreux Convention now haunts NATO. When Turkey signed that historic pact, Ankara committed to safeguard the Black Sea while...
On July 9, 2026, I argued on these pages that Israel must compound the impact of its aerial campaigns by systematically decapitating terrorist command...
Spain functions as a strategic liability inside NATO. During the March 2026 Iran campaign, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez barred U.S. forces...
President Donald Trump stands before a supreme geopolitical opportunity in the Balkans. Decades of State Department bureaucratic inertia have locked...
After the First World War, Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol was appointed to head the American mission in Constantinople, spending nearly a decade telling...
The global energy landscape shifted on its axis with America’s acquisition of Venezuela’s oil reserves, giving Washington control over 65 billion...
Oman turned the closure of the Strait of Hormuz into a strategic commercial victory. Ports at Duqm, Salalah, and Sohar now absorb the cargo that once...
Foggy Bottom’s obsession with a dysfunctional Bosnian condominium ignores reality and creates a dangerous strategic vacuum. History proves that the...
The Levant and Persian Gulf are drifting into a dangerous delusion. Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Kuwait increasingly embrace a fraudulent...
President Donald Trump’s decision to curtail the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises exposes a foundational pathology within the U.S.-South Korea...
Turkey no longer confines its neo-Ottoman ambitions to the Middle East or North Africa. Yıldırım Holding’s Yilport recently secured a $1.62...
Think Hamas is just a Gaza problem? Think again. For decades, Washington’s bloated analytical class and the State Department’s Bureau of Western...
When Israeli officials revealed in November 2025 that Mexican security services had disrupted an Iranian plot to assassinate Jerusalem’s ambassador...
On Sept. 1, 1920, French High Commissioner Henri Gouraud signed a decree that ripped Tripoli from Faisal’s short-lived Syrian Arab Kingdom, only...
For decades, Madrid’s leftist foreign policy establishment has substituted strategic clarity with moral bankruptcy, quietly strengthening Iran’s...
Israel is quietly executing a masterclass in geopolitical realism, while Western diplomats indulge in hand-wringing and empty rhetoric. Advanced...
For more than two centuries, the Manila Galleons carried Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices across the Pacific to Acapulco. From there, the cargo...
The Trump administration’s Board of Peace road map promises Hamas disarmament in exchange for phased Israeli withdrawals. Yet, predictable disputes...
Diplomacy is often an exercise in willful blindness, but there comes a point when reality completely shatters the fiction. For America’s foreign...
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