#us-foreign-policy
26 posts tagged us-foreign-policy.
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Washington brands Brazil's gangs as terrorists
The US designation of Brazil's PCC and Red Command as foreign terrorist organisations, timed with a Bolsonaro family meeting, is geopolitics dressed as law enforcement.
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Hegseth's Taiwan silence at Shangri-La
Pete Hegseth's pointed omission of Taiwan at Asia's premier defence summit signals a US strategic pivot that could unravel forty years of deterrence doctrine in the Indo-Pacific.
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US Congress bets on permanent Israeli military fusion
A Congressional bill to formally integrate US and Israeli military structures signals an attempt to lock in the alliance's operational depth before any future administration can reverse it.
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Trump's Iran deal: final determination, or final bluff?
Trump's Situation Room meeting to finalize an Iran nuclear framework collides with Tehran's denial — revealing a deal process built more on spectacle than on verifiable architecture.
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US-Iran truce: almost there, not quite
A tentative 60-day ceasefire extension with Iran sits on Trump's desk, but Vance's hedge reveals how fragile the architecture of this deal really is.
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Trump threatens Oman as Iran deal stalls
Trump's warning to bomb Oman unless it facilitates a Hormuz deal exposes the coercive logic underneath American diplomacy — and the limits of leverage when allies lose faith.
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America strikes Iran mid-ceasefire
Washington's decision to hit Iranian missile sites and mine-laying vessels during active peace talks exposes the profound incoherence at the heart of Trump's Middle East strategy.
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Trump's Iran deal and the hawks' veto
A 60-day Iran ceasefire framework is within reach, but Republican hawks and Trump's own impulsiveness may destroy the best diplomatic off-ramp since the Hormuz crisis began.
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Iran's deal: negotiated in public, undone in public
Trump's 'largely negotiated' Iran MOU offers a genuine off-ramp from a costly war, but his own social media impulsiveness may torpedo the diplomacy it took months to achieve.
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Ebola triples: the cost of dismantling preparedness
The DRC Ebola outbreak's explosive growth — from 246 cases to 750 in a single week — is a direct consequence of the systematic dismantling of the US global health infrastructure that was built precisely to prevent this.
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Iran nuclear talks: Rubio's slight progress problem
The Qatar-mediated Hormuz talks represent a genuine diplomatic opening, but the pattern of Iran extracting concessions during negotiations while maintaining leverage on the ground has a long and instructive history.
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Taiwan arms pause and the cost of one war
Washington has quietly halted arms sales to Taiwan amid the Iran conflict, raising urgent questions about alliance credibility and deterrence in the Pacific.
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Ebola, travel bans, and the public health withdrawal
Washington's travel ban on travellers from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan is the symptom of a deeper problem: the US has dismantled the infrastructure that would allow it to actually stop this outbreak rather than just wall it out.
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Iran's Hormuz gambit and the diplomacy trap
Iran's new maritime authority claim over the Strait of Hormuz is less a strategic advance than a negotiating provocation — but Trump's alternating threats and entreaties may be rewarding exactly the behaviour he wants to stop.
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Indicting a 94-year-old and calling it policy
The actual grand jury indictment of Raúl Castro for the 1996 plane shootdowns is legally interesting but strategically hollow — a pattern the US keeps repeating in Cuba policy.
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Rubio blames WHO while gutting CDC
The Ebola outbreak in DRC exposes a dangerous contradiction: Washington criticises the WHO for being slow while simultaneously dismantling the domestic public-health infrastructure that would allow the US to respond.
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White South Africans and refugee selectivity
The US decision to declare an 'emergency refugee situation' for white Afrikaners — while cutting asylum for war-zone Afghans — reveals how refugee policy has been weaponised as ideological signalling.
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Gulf states veto Trump's Iran war
When Gulf monarchies talked Trump out of striking Iran, they revealed how much American war-making power has been quietly outsourced to states with their own interests.
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Iran's ceasefire collapses, and the diplomacy of maximalism
Trump's rejection of Iran's counter-proposal exposes the fundamental problem with wars of choice: ending them requires concessions that winning them does not.
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Iran's hungry war, and the cost of blockade economics
American naval pressure has produced food inflation that will outlast the war. The strategic question is whether the regime is broken by it or stabilised by the rally-round-the-flag effect.
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HMS Dragon and the return to east of Suez
A British Type 45 destroyer steaming for the Strait of Hormuz is a small deployment with a large meaning — Britain has just been quietly drafted back into a role it spent fifty years trying to leave.
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Calling Europe an incubator: a strategy and its costs
The Gorka counter-terrorism document is more clarifying than its critics admit and more dangerous than its defenders concede; either way, the transatlantic argument has just been put on paper.
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Caracas, not Tehran: the uranium Trump did seize
Pulling 13.5kg of enriched fuel out of Venezuela is a real win, but it underlines what is still sitting in Iran and how little leverage talk produces without action.
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Riyadh's quiet no and the limits of American leverage
Saudi Arabia's refusal of bases and airspace for Trump's shelved Iran plan is the most consequential rebuff of US power in the Gulf for a generation.
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Indicting Raúl Castro is not a Cuba strategy
The threatened indictment of Raúl Castro and simultaneous CIA back-channel talks in Havana reveal an incoherent US Cuba policy that conflates legal symbolism with diplomatic leverage.
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Cuba's lights go out, and Washington presses the switch
The collapse of Cuba's power grid and the CIA's visit to Havana reveal a coercive strategy that may achieve regime change — or produce a humanitarian catastrophe that outlasts whatever government follows.