Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg View
K. Hjelmgaard, USAT.
The United States is offering a $1 million reward for information on Hamza bin Laden, who is thought to be based near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Nahal Toosi, Politico
Former top national security officials detail a climate of fear, incompetence and hostility to facts in a White House that wasn't ready to run the world.
Oliver Stuenkel, Americas Quarterly
Nearing the midpoint of his presidency, Lenn Moreno is overseeing a soft landing after the excesses of his predecessor.
Roger Cohen, New York Times
Jew hatred has re-entered the European mainstream. It makes an irrefutable case for the need for a Jewish homeland.
Odil Gafarov, Chatham House
Is trouble brewing as Beijing uses security firms to protect its people abroad, asks Odil Gafarov
James Forsyth, Spectator
The only certainty in the Brexit process is that there is no certainty. Brexiteers had long sought solace in the fact that, by law, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on 29 March with or
Josh Rogin, Washington Post
The president's approach has failed, and Pyongyang is happily reaping the rewards.
P. Dixit & N. Jha, B-F
There's politics, religion, enemy nations, and a surge of nationalism in this situation. It's the perfect storm.
S. Glasser, New Yorker
Rarely has a President been so publicly humiliated, in different settings and by such different actors, in so short a span of time.
T. Rogan, Examiner
North Korea is disappointed with the summit's outcome. But its words should not be taken at face value.
Christopher Hill, The Hill
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make. Certainly, President Trump's decision to walk out of the Hanoi summit and return to Washington to prepare his next tweetstorm is a better outcome than accepting a bad deal. But for the president to travel halfway around the world for a failed summit is worth some introspection and reflection.
Farzana Shaikh, New Statesman
The latest clashes between India and Pakistan come as no surprise to observers of the region. But few could have anticipated the scale of India's actions against Pakistan, or predicted the acute tension that now threatens to precipitate an all-out war. Weeks of sabre-rattling warned of an impending crisis.
James Jay Carafano, Fox News
North Korean negotiators believed they could get something from Trump if they could just get him to the table. They didn't believe U.S. negotiators who told them the president wouldn't compromise on the pressure campaign. Kim came to Hanoi to test that proposition.
Austin Bay, Strategy Page
The "first brush" narrative in this section collects connected events and actions that occurred from March 2017 to March 2018. Overall, the operation represents a concerted effort to wage twenty-first-century "cocktail" warfare by employing and coordinating American power in pursuit of a geo-strategic goal: denuclearizing North Korea. But this is a slice of ongoing history. Subsequent events will determine the effectiveness of this particular multi-dimensional operation.
Geoffrey Cain, New Republic
Expecting the brutally repressive state to liberalize magically the way Vietnam did is a pipe dream.
John Schaus, CSIS
President Trump and Kim Jong-un are currently holding their second meeting in the past year. Speculation is building that the two leaders will announce a peace declaration at their meeting, supposedly ending the state of war that has existed on the Korean peninsula since Kim Jong-un's grandfather invaded South Korea in 1951. For the millions of South Koreans in Seoul who live in the shadow of North Korea's artillerymuch less the millions more in Korea, Japan, and the United States... Читать дальше...
S. Nathan Park, Foreign Policy
Opponents of an end-of-war declaration are sorely mistaken.
