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 island cannot continue to be ruled by a statist, militaristic, totalitarian and corrupt caste that controls the entire nation.

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

Operation Epic Fury will not be remembered as a historic triumph, but as a textbook case of how tactical arrogance breeds strategic catastrophe.

[I]t is severe punishment for a local business leading in the most important race on the planet.

The shrinking of ambitions away from the Indian Ocean ... suggests that the [U.S] is ceding the continent, including West Asia, to China.

[T]his blacklist has long since superseded its original military-related purpose and is now Washington’s means of tracking and suppressing China’s top enterprises.

President Trump’s messy handling of the Iran conflict has helped birth an axis that brings nuclear capability, serious money, and growing international clout together.

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.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.

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

[W]hat the Switzerland negotiations ultimately lead to may help determine who the next U.S. president will be, as much as they will define the rules of the game in the Middle East.