What Europe should do about a problem like Trump
If European governments do not take serious steps to secure a good deal with President Trump, they will likely end up with a bad one.
If European governments do not take serious steps to secure a good deal with President Trump, they will likely end up with a bad one.
Hillary Clinton is unlikely to have a hawkish foreign policy once she will be president and her priorities will be very different
The US-Turkey relationship will fail to evolve into a true alliance of trust and thus be of limited use in defeating ISIS or ending the civil war with the Kurds in Turkey
The British people have spoken
We want to believe there was some reason, even a bad one, for a tragedy like this. This is normal, but it doesn’t make good public policy. Some things are just senseless.
European policymakers worry about Russian and Chinese integration efforts, which push them to think more strategically about the Eurasian landmass
The battle to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah has begun: 20,000 Iraqi soldiers, backed by US air power and advisers, are attempting to expel some 800 to 1,000 ISIS fighters
US policymakers understand very well that Europe is the most important region of the world for the United States
The US remains stuck in a Cold War mindset of keeping allies happy, rather than ensuring that they support US interests
The collapse of European integration could potentially mean an end to the stability, order, and prosperity that the US worked very hard and spent a lot of money to help Europe achieve. And while it's unlikely we'd see a return to anything like the 20th century's massive world wars, the consequences could still extend far beyond Europe's borders.