By Nii Lantey Bortey* – Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) U.S. unraveling will not be imposed from abroad. It will come from within. The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power. It is approaching collapse because it has too often mistaken power for wisdom. Its armed forces...

By Matthias Matthijs* and Nathalie Tocci** – Foreign Affairs Trump’s Overreach Has Finally Forged Continental Unity. When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, European countries at first chose appeasement as their preferred U.S. strategy. Faced with a belligerent Washington that threatened to withdraw the American security...

By Joshua Scheer – SheerPost Europe’s political class is sleepwalking into a catastrophe of its own design. In a sweeping, blistering conversation with Glenn Diesen, economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs lays out how the continent—once poised to build a “common European home” with Russia—is instead resurrecting the most dangerous instincts...

By Eric Ross* – Common Dreams A US invasion would hardly inaugurate a new conflict. It would instead mark the bloodiest phase in a long, bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty. In recent weeks and months, Washington has intensified its long-running campaign of collective punishment...