Henry Kissinger: “Being an enemy of the United States is dangerous, but being its friend is fatal.” 

If irrationalism mixes once again with nationalism, we run the very real risk of witnessing the “return of the tragic.”

The madness of this war is all the more evident now that it has achieved none of its initial objectives.

The natural disaster that struck Venezuela marks the collapse of Chavismo, even in the eyes of those who defended it until the very end.

Each side contradicts the other’s announcement of any progress.

U.S. interests themselves may not have changed; what has changed is more likely the way those interests are expressed.

[W]hy does the United States believe it has the standing to dictate which nations South Africa may engage with and on what terms?

Musk is very similar to Trump, they know what the people want to hear, but I doubt their sincerity.

[T]he international community is waiting with bated breath to see what next the [U.S.] authorities will do to inadvertently expose FIFA's blatant hypocrisy.

The central question is...the expansion of its strategic content and its capacity to generate shared value in a rapidly changing world.

[E]conomic interests dictate American policy, and they are the decisive factor.

[I]t is [U.S.] prestige that has suffered the more profound and unquantifiable injury.