This week’s joint US, UK, French aerial attack on Syria may not change the course of the civil war in Syria—The government of Bashar al-Assad seems still on course to prevail over its internal enemies, [...]
During Washington’s ongoing Trump investigation circus, little attention is being paid to one the President’s most daring and risky foreign policy moves: muscling in on the war in Syria. Yet this [...]
President Donald Trump enforced Barack Obama’s porous red line on chemical weapons and in so doing has made it possible, for better or worse, for the US to participate in trying to end the war in Syria–through [...]
Rome–The startling destruction of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city and one of its most storied, is shocking and sad to see. The human suffering would be enough to mourn. But there’s also a tragic [...]
London–Wow, Obama and Putin. That was some ceasefire in Syria you guys signed-off on. Forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels kept fighting each other. Assad also kept blocking aid [...]
Rome—Maybe after five years of awful turmoil, tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees and vast destruction of cities, giving into Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad is not the worst option [...]
Capri—Update with Iran paying Syrians to join its militias) Last month, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad acknowledged that he lacked recruits enough to fill his army. Militias, some improvised local [...]
Miami–The shorthand for Syria’s civil war has long become: Majority Sunni Muslims against the minority Alawite government of President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Christians and backed by [...]
Two operas, one in Hong Kong, the other in Moscow, seemed to speak on current themes. I had the good luck this year of s...
Are the US and China heading for a Pearl Harbor moment? Back to the Future? Pearl Harbor, 1941 Before visiting Shanghai ...
All calm in Shanghai, so why all the controls?...
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