John Bolton delivers scathing critique of Trump’s lack of knowledge or coherent strategy: ‘I’m very worried’ A major international crisis is “much more likely” in Donald Trump’s second term given the president-elect’s “inability to focus” on foreign policy, a former US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has warned. John Bolton, who at 17 months…
Republicans’ outgoing US Senate leader takes issue with foreign policy thinking in party’s Maga movement Mitch McConnell, the Republicans’ outgoing leader in the US Senate, has called on Donald Trump to avoid an “isolationist” foreign policy during his looming second presidency – and urged him to back up a surge in American “hard power” by…
PENTAGON — A majority of Americans want the United States to lead on the global stage with a strong military, and a supermajority want to increase national defense spending, according to the latest Reagan National Defense Survey. Despite Americans electing a president who ran on an “America First” agenda that focused on domestic issues ranging from…
Victory for Putin would be a grave blow to U.S. power.
NEW YORK — You’ve heard the horror stories: Someone casting multiple ballots, people voting in the name of dead relatives, mail-in ballots being intercepted. Voter fraud does happen occasionally. When it does, we tend to hear a lot about it. It also gets caught and prosecuted. The nation’s multilayered election processes provide many safeguards that keep…
Black Americans have always sought international connection in service of promoting freedom.
Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund says Harris has ‘shown more sympathy towards the people of Gaza’ than Biden or Trump Kamala Harris has won the backing for her presidential bid of a key US Muslim organization that had declined to endorse Joe Biden before he withdrew from his re-election campaign. The switch to Harris was a…
After 500 years, the tables have turned, with an incoherent Europe the object of rising Asia’s geopolitical ambitions.
The attempt to kill Donald Trump should be a chilling reminder of how easy it is to trigger a lethal U.S. tradition.
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond column. Dina Smeltz is vice president for Public Opinion and Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. For the past…