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The human rights calamity in Afghanistan will not be alleviated while the US-NATO “adviser” nations continue their present policy.

China is the key to bleeding off the negative consequences to global trade, thus blunting Trump’s economic Sword of Damocles – tariffs, sanctions, fines and expulsion from the SWIFT payment system.

US friction with China is on an upwards trajectory, and may spike further, were Washington now to threaten the Korean peninsula with military action of some nature.

Donald Trump's decision to tear up the JCPOA seems to have kicked off a domino effect, with European allies leading the way in claiming their own strategic autonomy as a result.

Perhaps the US, which clearly was not satisfied when the Soviet side ended its side of the Cold War in 1991, is going all the way to seek a hot-war victory against Russia.

If Trump wants his Peace Prize he’s going to have to work for it. With Kim off his dance card, he’s got plenty of time to take a spin with Putin.

The approval of Haspel by the Senate suggests that there is no crime that a government official cannot get away with if it is justified under the aegis of the “war on terror.”

The Pentagon’s policy on the South China Sea rests more on practising its “global strike capability” than on seeking to promote international trust and understanding.

Trump hopes to position the US to hit Iran as hard as it possibly can – by destroying the prospects of any European companies to remain engaged with Iran.

Now that Trump has embraced the new ‘neo-Americanism’ (per Russell-Mead), what will be the US strategy if neither North Korea nor Iran submit? Are military strikes then, on the agenda?