Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Benjamin Franklin recognized the appeal of this way of living. "Every man has two countries — his own and France," he is reputed to have said. But the scandal of the present in France is that its way of life has not seduced the people who have moved to and made their lives in France. It is a failure that the French have not truly apprehended and that elected governments will have a devil of a time addressing. Can a minority population be "converted"... Читать дальше...
Owens & Lloyd-Damnjanovic, RS
Both sides can start to build trust and avoid repeating the mistakes from the onset of the Cold War.
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
Oh, it makes sense all right. The administration's gripe here is over Republican-led efforts to reimpose sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 energy pipeline. The Biden administration doesn't want those sanctions because they will upset Germany, and so, the White House has joined a
Omer Carmi, Washington Institute
Tehran has maintained its stringent line of insisting that Washington lift all sanctions, verify their removal, and provide future guarantees before it will lift a finger on resuming compliance with the JCPOA.
Mark Galeotti, Foreign Affairs
Over the past month, as thousands of migrants gathered on Belarus's border with Poland and tried to cross into the European Union, some European leaders accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of engaging in a "hybrid war." In an effort to put pressure on the EU, they asserted, Lukashenko intentionally sent the migrants to the border with Poland and left them exposed in a freezing forest. Ylva Johansson, the European commissioner for home affairs,... Читать дальше...
Vali Nasr, Foreign Affairs
The Biden administration's mantra for the Middle East is simple: "end the ‘forever wars.'" The White House is preoccupied with managing the challenge posed by China and aims to disentangle the United States from the Middle East's seemingly endless and unwinnable conflicts. But the United States' disengagement threatens to leave a political vacuum that will be filled by sectarian rivalries, paving the way for a more violent and unstable region.
Olga Bielkova, AC
Advocates of Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline like to claim it will enhance European energy security. In reality, the opposite is true. If pipeline certification proceeds, it will leave the entire continent more exposed than ever to energy blackmail and supply insecurity.
J. Nagel & J. Schanzer, JP
It is by now well established that most of those incidents in Syria are Israeli strikes targeting Iranian personnel or the transfer of precision-guided munitions, PGMs.
Jonathan Miller, Spectator
Robert Zaretsky, Forward
After months of hedging, Éric Zemmour finally crossed the Rubicon yesterday. In a video released on YouTube, the racist and reactionary pundit declared his candidacy in next year's French presidential election. Upon parsing the video's words and images, a chorus of commentators have noted the many cues Zemmour took from Charles de Gaulle's historic appeal of June 18, 1940, delivered at the London studios of the BBC.
Russell Napier, Financial Times
Increased holdings of Chinese assets has conferred new power over the economy
Owen Matthews & Michael Weiss, Newlines
Just three months ago, the world seemed to be going President Vladimir Putin's way.
