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Trump’s Oil Grab in Venezuela Shatters an American Taboo
In The News
President George W. Bush said he was invading Iraq to keep America safe. But critics saw a hidden motive: oil....
By Richard Fontaine
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Goodbye Arms Control, Hello Nuclear Anarchy
In The News
The era of nuclear arms control officially ends next week. On Feb. 5, New START, the last such treaty between the United States and Russia, will expire....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers
In The News
Even by President Trump’s own mercurial standards, his whipsawing over the past few weeks on Greenland — insisting on the largest land acquisition in American history and then...
By Richard Fontaine
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Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That U.S. Must Own Greenland to Defend It
In The News
President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. must own Greenland to expand its defenses there runs counter to decades of policy and undermines the deterrence of its global network...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
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Just after midnight on January 3rd, as American commandos surged into Caracas to seize President Nicolás Maduro, large sections of the city went dark. Blackouts are common in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Administration Renews Push for Greenland Emboldened by Maduro Capture
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President Donald Trump and his administration, more confident after last weekend’s capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, are ratcheting up their thr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Rubio Takes on His Most Daunting Role Yet
In The News
President Donald Trump ordered the military operation in Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro. But in the aftermath, Marco Rubio is in the spotlight....
By Richard Fontaine
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After Venezuela, Trump Offers Hints About What Could Be Next
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Barely 48 hours after toppling the leader of Venezuela and asserting U.S. rights to the country’s oil, President Trump threatened Colombia with a similar fate, declared that C...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Is Tying His Legacy to Whatever Happens in Venezuela
In The News
Possibly, just possibly, Donald Trump just scored a foreign-policy success that could define his legacy. By striking Venezuela and whisking away Nicolás Maduro (along with Mad...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a SayFor Europe’s leaders, the weekend began with another threat to their relevance, courtesy of President Trump. Would the Americans really force Ukraine to capitulate, embrace Pr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
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More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that of...
By Richard Fontaine
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In the Trump Era, Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism Became Obsolete
In The News
When George W. Bush asked Dick Cheney to be his running mate in the summer of 2000, Mr. Cheney warned that his voting record was well to the right of Mr. Bush’s presidential c...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Has Made U.S.-China Relations All About TradeUnder Trump, trade has come to be the dominant theme of the relationship between the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump, Long Erratic on the World Stage, Reaches a New Level
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Nine months into his term, President Trump’s approach to allies, adversaries and competitors around the world has proved a strange mix of successes and increasingly frequent a...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Leaves Behind a Reeling Washington to Chase a Deal With China
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President Trump is heading to Asia on Friday evening at a moment of turmoil at home: He has deployed an aircraft carrier to Latin America, cut off trade talks with Canada, raz...
By Richard Fontaine
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Europe’s Persistence in Supporting Ukraine Is Bearing Fruit
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No one can know how long President Trump’s pique with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia will last this time. But the past few days have been an important signal that Europ...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
With His Pivot on Ukraine, Trump May Be Washing His Hands of the WarEight months into his second term, President Trump has made a declaration about Ukraine that sounded vaguely like the ones his predecessor, President Joseph R. Biden Jr., used...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
As U.S. Adversaries Bond in Beijing, Trump Grows Frustrated With PutinAs the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea gathered for a grand military parade in Beijing, President Trump on Wednesday took pains to brush off the striking show of soli...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Anti-U.S. Axis Isn’t Dead, Just RestingJune was a bad month for the theocrats in Tehran, what with all those Israeli and American bombs falling on them. It also seemed — at least superficially — to be a setback for...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
JUST IN: Growing Alignment Among Potential Foes Creating Challenges for U.S., Experts SayThe alignment between Russia, China, North Korea and Iran carries implications across the United States’s diplomatic and economic foreign policy, but the military threat is of...
By Richard Fontaine & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
