18 February 2026
We Own It, So We Can Break It
Standing next to Volodymyr Zelensky days before the Nicolás Maduro extraction, Donald Trump asserted, “we’re protected by a thing called the Atlantic Ocean.” His statement sounded at once naïve and antiquarian in a globalized world of cyberattacks and US worldwide presence. But it is part of the hemispheric charge moving his National Security Strategy 2025 away from the China-centric anxieties. The NSS provides keys to other elements of the administration’s foreign policy, including relations with China, Russia, and Europe; recovery of dusty spheres-of-influence and balance-of-power talk; and the focus on “Western civilization”. Continue reading >>
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14 October 2025
Rehabilitating the “Neocons” is no Zeitenwende
The old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is prevailing in 2025 Berlin foreign policy circles. The US architects of the 2003 Iraq War were once synonymous with the breakdown of the Transatlantic Alliance and post-War international order. No longer, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Ambassador John Bolton and Professor Philip Zelikow all making recent public appearances to offer advice on renewing US global leadership. Their aspiration for intellectual authority in constructing a new international order demands an equal account of their complicity in deconstructing the order that went before it. Continue reading >>
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