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An incident of infrastructure sabotage in the Baltic Sea could show how Beijing and Moscow are already engaged in a hybrid war with the West. A vessel known as Newnew Polar Bear appeared to be quite busy on the night of October 7. The Chinese cargo vessel is …

With Haley’s polls rising in New Hampshire, could Trump tap her for his 2024 ticket? Is Nikki Haley running for the presidency—or Donald J. Trump’s vice president? Former speaker Kevin McCarthy says she’d be right for the job. Although Trump himself deemed the prospect “unlikely,” this is a …

Far from abandoning Ukraine, a second Trump administration would lift restrictions on Ukrainian military aid in order to force a peace settlement. Donald Trump has vowed that in a second presidential term, he would end the war in Ukraine “in twenty-four hours.” Mainstream analysts have dismissed the president’s …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In the vast tapestry of Arab history, an unsettling question looms large: What ails the Arab world? The answer, evident in news broadcasts and communication channels, unfolds as a narrative of pain, injustice, oppression, and humiliation—stretching from the ocean of oppression to the Gulf …

Climate change, like nuclear weapons, is routinely described as a “global” threat that has transformed our world into a “global village” in which no state is secure unless a cosmopolitan and borderless vision of security is adopted. Such perspectives argue that there is a need for “global answers” …

The 24th Summit between the European Union (EU) and China took place in Beijing on December 7, 2023. The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, engaged in discussions with China’s President, Xi Jinping, followed by interactions …

Cutting all maritime smuggling routes is the best way to defeat the cartels, their Chinese enablers, and the Fentanyl overdose epidemic. In the fight to secure our nation from dangerous illicit drugs, the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S), based in Key West, Florida, has been waging a …

A broadly conceived strategy to preserve and strengthen the liberal, rules-based global order is needed: the leaders of that order must “consolidate the core.” The post-Cold War world order is fractured beyond recovery. Autocratic regimes are set on replacing it with a global order conducive to authoritarian governance …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh We stand on the precipice of an era ominously titled “Displacement and Resettlement” — the penultimate chapter in what skeptics dub the “conspiracy of the century.” In the shadows of Israel’s unhindered maneuvering, one can’t help but wonder: What era is this? Are we …