Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
The IDF worries about the simultaneous speeches this week of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas Gaza commander Yahya Sinwar, as both groups could launch simultaneous and coordinated attacks against Israel.
Michael Rubin, 1945
President Joe Biden won plaudits for formally recognizing the Armenian genocide last month despite furious Turkish lobbying to block the move. Just days after the move, however, Secretary of State Antony Blinkenessentially undercut...
Kurt Volker, CEPA
When NATO heads of state and government gather in Brussels next month, they will have a wide and complex agenda.
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
I'm writing this on Memorial Day, a day dedicated to remembering those who died fighting for the United States and to enjoying the first outdoor gatherings of the summer. For some, marking the day by enjoying the pleasures of a barbecue seems a betrayal of the dead. For me, it is a celebration of life. The dead put themselves in harm's way, some out of choice and some out of obligation. The deaths of the latter are no less noble for that. The deaths of the former no less tragic. Читать дальше...
Nate Schenkkan, Foreign Affairs
Belarus's Skyjacking Reflects a Global Threat That Democracies Must Confront
Andrew Green, World Politics Review
The military officer who overthrew Mali's elected government last year, Col. Assimi Goita, this week deposed the civilian president and prime minister of the transitional authority he helped install in the aftermath of the coup, creating a new political crisis in the West African country.
Janan Ganesh, Financial Times
If air travel wanes in our post-Covid future, nowhere will be better to live than a small, treasure-crammed continent
John Ferry, Spectator
SNP MSP has claimed an independent Scotland could guarantee a couple with children a minimum income of more than £37,000 a year,' the Daily Record reported breathlessly this week, as it covered the SNP's latest plans for an independent Scotland.
James Chater, New Statesman
Sarah White, RCW
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro walked into office with seemingly invulnerable approval ratings. His re-election in 2022 seemed all but guaranteed, no matter what he did or said. Despite contracting and recovering from the coronavirus in 2020, for example, Bolsonaro has been publicly skeptical of vaccination. He had these choice words for the Pfizer option: "There in the Pfizer contract, it is very clear that we (Pfizer) are not responsible for any side effect... If you turn into an alligator... Читать дальше...
Jackson Richman, Washington Examiner
The media and the Biden administration are beginning to acknowledge the real possibility that the coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The only real surprise is that it has taken this long for them to get here.
Taipei Times
As politicians squabble over who is to blame for a nationwide spike in COVID-19 infections since earlier this month, it is important not to forget where the virus originated and who is responsible for a manifestly containable epidemic mushrooming into a ruinous global pandemic.
Gerard Baker, Times of London
Growing evidence the virus escaped from a lab shatters the global narrative of Beijing's inexorable rise.
Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs
Official Triumphalism Conceals Societal Fragmentation
Jerry Hendrix, National Review
A naval-centric strategy will protect liberty, keep the global commons free, and shift boots-on-the-ground duties to allies
Con Coughlin, The National
In the wake of the latest deadly outbreak of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians, US President Joe Biden has declared that one of his main policy goals is to address Washington's "years of neglect" of the Palestinian cause in recent years.
Economist
In a world plagued by authoritarian populists, Mexico's president has somehow escaped the limelight. Liberals furiously condemn the erosion of democratic norms under Hungary's Viktor Orban, India's Narendra Modi and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, but barely notice Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This is partly because he lacks some of the vices of his populist peers. He does not deride gay people, bash Muslims or spur his supporters to torch the Amazon. To his credit, he speaks out loudly and often for Mexico's have-nots... Читать дальше...
Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
