Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
In his zeal to attack Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, opposition head Benjamin Netanyahu and associates are even ready to tarnish the IDF and its commanders.
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Andrew Michta, 1945
The United States has finally left Afghanistan - twenty years after the original failed mission to bring Osama Bin Laden and his criminal gang to justice morphed into a nation-building project, breathtaking in scope and ambition. The national...
Frederic Hof, Newlines
Pulling U.S. forces from Syria would be easy. Few Americans would object. But for Iran, the Islamic State, Russia and Assad, it would be a gift of enduring value
Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center
It is the success or failure of remaking America, not Afghanistan, that will determine not just the legacy of the Biden administration, but the future of the United States itself.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
The targets of Merkel's warning accused her of red-baiting. But even if the usual caveats should be affixed to Merkel's remarks, that doesn't mean she's wrong about the prospects of a leftist government.
OCCRP
The last few months have been the most difficult for independent Russian journalists since the Soviet era. Here's how the Putin regime is using ‘foreign agent' designations to squeeze the life out of critical outlets that hold it to account.
Michael Kofman, WOTR
Zapad-2021 is not just approaching. It's already here. Zapad, meaning "west," is Russia's Strategic Command's-Staff Exercise, scheduled for Sept. 10-16. This exercise focuses on Russia's Western Military District and Belarus and includes areas under the Northern Fleet's Joint Strategic Command. Strategic exercises of this type are capstone training events for the Russian military and rotate every year (since 2009) between zapad (west), vostok (east), tsentr (center), and Kavkaz (Caucasus). Читать дальше...
Colm Quinn, Foreign Policy
As thousands converge on Brazil's political and economic capitals, worries of a violent, anti-democratic, turn persist.
Charles McEnany, 1945
Failing to invoke Article 5 in the face of an attack on an ally, especially a conventional one, would shatter the alliance's credibility. Article 5 must be sacrosanct. If it is undermined in one scenario, it is undermined in all scenarios. Adversaries and allies alike must believe that an attack on a member will result in a forceful response from NATO. Failure to come to Ukraine's defense would agonize the Baltics and could embolden Moscow, who would rightly wonder whether... Читать дальше...
B. Bowman & B. Taleblu, FDD
The announcement this month was an encouraging and positive development. Now the real work begins to better secure and defend mutual American, Israeli and Arab interests.
Walter Pincus, The Cipher Brief
OPINION — Last Wednesday, the House Armed Services Committee guaranteed that defense funding in fiscal 2022, which begins 23 days from now, will eventually be roughly $740 billion, some $24 billion more than the amount President Joe Biden requested last May.
Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel
Angela Merkel's 16 years as German chancellor have been characterized by crisis after crisis, most of them global in nature. Her intellect has been a critical tool in addressing those challenges, but her follow through left a lot to be desired.
Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said his country is working to find a diplomatic solution.
Charles King, Foreign Affairs
On November 11, 1980, a car filled with writers was making its wayalong a rain-slick highway to a conference in Madrid. The subject of the meeting was the human rights movement in the Soviet Union, and in the vehicle were some of the movement's long-suffering activists: Vladimir Borisov and Viktor Fainberg, both of whom had endured horrific abuse in a...
D. Bandow, RS
The current race to replace Angela Merkel will likely result in an entirely new government, and a chance for more autonomy in defense.
Nathan Hitchen, The Bulwark
Thinking geostrategically, competing technologically.
Ara Papian, National Interest
Biden may talk about recalibrating U.S. policy to face future threats but, in the South Caucasus, his State Department is not only dropping the ball but actually playing into Putin's hands.
Brandon Weichert, RealClearWorld
In the shadows of America's strategic defeat in Afghanistan—the epicenter of her Twenty Years' War against Islamist extremism—an authoritarian steel trap descends across the Eurasian landmass. The People's Republic of China, the next global superpower, is on the march. Its ultimate goal is to methodically displace the United States as the world's dominant power and to establish a new world order.
Eric Posner, Project Syndicate
It was already clear that former President Donald Trump repudiated the humanitarian or quasi-humanitarian motives that underpinned US military interventions after the Cold War. But Joe Biden's forceful renunciation of foreign-policy idealism is somewhat surprising.
