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Gideon RachmanFinancial Review |
The international community desperately needs far-sighted leadership but the US and Chinese leaders are unlikely to provide it.
Both the Kremlin and the Trump administration are cheering on the rise of the AfD, which won an election for the first time since the defeat of the...
America cannot achieve its aims by negotiation and Iran’s missile strikes will become more intense in coming years. Regime change is back on the...
The downfalls of would-be autocrats in Hungary, Brazil and the Philippines hold lessons for America.
Israel’s leader faces a very difficult choice. Does he call off strikes against Iran and Hezbollah or does he defy the US president and endanger the...
The war in the Middle East is currently more likely to escalate than to be resolved by negotiation.
The longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the more the economic and political pressure on the US and its allies mounts, strengthening Iran’s...
The Islamic republic aims to set up a toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz. It may succeed.
The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei has dashed the US president’s hope of picking Iran’s new leader.
The killing of Ali Khamenei and key military and political leaders has left the regime reeling. But it does not answer the question of what comes...
The US president has worryingly developed an appetite for the wars of choice that he once denounced.
The US secretary of state’s speech on the weekend was full of cloying tributes to the Continent, but it’s a false sense of calm and a prelude to...
As the president’s behaviour becomes more and more indefensible, from ICE shootings to posting racist memes, a resistance is gathering some steam.
Swapping American dominance of the western hemisphere for Chinese dominance of East Asia would be the deal of the century. For China.
A ceasefire and hostage release are cause for celebration. But big questions remain about the rest of the Trump plan.
Vengeful, vain, headstrong – and surrounded by ambitious mediocrities – the president is increasingly out of control.
European leaders will try and help Ukraine’s president at the White House by convincing Trump to get off the dangerous path laid out for him by Putin.
Russia, Europe — and the Ukrainians under European tutelage — now all have the same playbook for dealing with the US president.
If Ukraine can keep its independence and its democracy — then making some territorial concessions might be a painful but acceptable concession.