Razed Villages, New Construction Point to Israeli Designs on Prolonged Lebanon Occupation

In Red Sea Crisis, Somaliland Seizes Leverage For US Recognition Authored by Dan M. Ford via Responsible Statecraft, The president of Somaliland took advantage of the geopolitical and global economic turmoil caused by the Iran War to visit Washington this week in an effort to advocate for American recognition of Somaliland and for the deepening of economic ties between the two. President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, known as Irro, made a public appearance at the Hudson Institute on September 14, where he argued that his country's three-and-a-half decade run as a secure, self-governing...

President Trump took Secretary of War Hegseth’s military cheerleading (“US military potency is awesome”) at face value, only belatedly to discover that the US is out of interceptors in a war that hinges on air defences. “The restock mathematics is just as cold. Four years to refill the stocks (not four months), because components include […]

Neocon Grandee Robert Kagan Issues Surprise Scathing Critique Of Iran War Via Middle East Eye Robert Kagan, one of the United States’ most prominent neoconservative voices and a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has warned that Washington is heading towards "total defeat" in its war on Iran - a setback he says “can neither be repaired nor ignored”. Writing in The Atlantic, Kagan said the damage inflicted by the conflict cannot be reversed. "There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done," he concluded bleakly. AFP...