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October 5, 2020
Plan to Reposition U.S. Forces in Europe Needs More Work
The House Armed Service Committee (HASC) expressed concern last week about the Department of Defense (DoD) plan to reposition U.S. forces based in Europe. In its present form, the plan lacks sufficient...
October 4, 2020
Is Qatar lying about its COVID-19 outbreak to avoid jeopardizing its hosting of the World Cup?
The demands to relocate the 2022 Men’s FIFA World Cup tournament from Qatar to another country are being reignited amid a report obtained exclusively by Fox News that casts doubts on the integrity...
October 3, 2020
Did China help rig the South Korean election?
So, as if we didn’t have enough to worry about, South Korea’s April 2020 National Assembly elections were likely rigged, with help from China. There may not be a smoking gun (yet), but there are a lot...
October 2, 2020
Ransomware Rising: Steps for The Public and Private Sector to Address the Growing Threat
Last weekend, a major U.S. healthcare provider, Universal Health Services, was the victim of what may have been the largest ransomware attack in the history of the United States. The attack caused the company...
October 2, 2020
The United Nations: Erdogan’s Favorite Platform for Trolling the World
The United Nations General Assembly, which meets every September, offers authoritarian heads of state their favorite platform for trolling the world. For this year’s 75th annual session, Turkish president...
October 2, 2020
H.R. McMaster and the Fight to Defend the Free World
October 1, 2020
Turkey Uses Medieval Score-Settling To Justify Its Hagia Sophia Conversion
Europe is now home to one of the world’s strangest paradoxes. The continent’s most prominent mosque, the Great Mosque of Cordoba, has served as a church since the year 1236. Meanwhile, Ankara in July converted Europe’s...
October 1, 2020
A Solarium For Presidential Transition Teams
In the next 100 days, America will go through a transition. Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election, thousands of political operatives, pundits, think tankers, and other court whisperers will...
October 1, 2020
Coordinated U.S. Actions Combat Wide Range of Iran’s Malign Cyber Activities
In a series of coordinated actions in mid-September, the U.S. departments of Justice and the Treasury exposed more than 50 Iranian hackers and took steps in concert with the FBI to thwart their ability...
October 1, 2020
Two More Reasons to Worry About China
I was going to try to peg this week’s Vital Interests newsletter to the first presidential debate. But after rewatching parts of it, and reading through the transcript, I decided to move on with my...
October 1, 2020
UN Report Highlights How North Korea’s Embassies Help Pyongyang Flout Sanctions
A UN Panel of Experts evaluating international enforcement of North Korea sanctions publicly released its August 2020 report on Monday. Among other findings, the report appropriately emphasized the critical...
October 1, 2020
Why Downplaying China’s Election Interference Could Backfire
Following the release of U.S. intelligence assessments exposing Russian, Chinese and Iranian interference in the 2020 election—as well as revelations that cyber actors from all three countries were...
September 30, 2020
Sanctions Target War Profiteer Working for Assad’s Brother
The Treasury Department imposed sanctions today on Syrian war profiteer Khodr Ali Taher and 11 of his companies – part of the fourth set of designations since the Caesar Act went into effect this past...
September 30, 2020
Beijing Seeks to Evade U.S. Restrictions on Technology Imports
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a major speech earlier this month acknowledging how U.S. efforts to restrict Chinese access to critical technology have laid bare systemic weaknesses in Chinese supply...
September 30, 2020
U.S. Steps Up Pressure Against Russian Crypto Abuse
The Trump administration this month issued two sets of penalties against Russian actors engaged in illicit cryptocurrency transactions. These episodes highlight how U.S. adversaries ranging from cybercriminals...
September 30, 2020
Designating Iran’s Financial Sector Would Not Impact Humanitarian Trade
According to an exclusive Bloomberg report this week, the Trump administration may be considering a sanctions designation of Iran’s financial sector in its entirety pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.)...
September 30, 2020
Is Iran’s supreme leader preparing to surrender?
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, marked the 40th anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war last week by praising his predecessor’s decision to drink a “chalice...
September 30, 2020
‘Blue Homeland’ And The Irredentist Future Of Turkish Foreign Policy
Turkey and Greece, two NATO allies, nearly experienced a full-fledged military conflict in August. Two of their warships collided during a naval standoff over hydrocarbon exploration in the Eastern...
September 30, 2020
Welcome to a Brand-New Middle East
It’s a brand-new Middle East. Within the span of only a month, the United States has brokered peace between Israel and two Arab countries—first the United Arab Emirates, then Bahrain. Both deals are...
September 29, 2020
Netanyahu Highlights Hezbollah Use of Human Shields
In his speech to the UN General Assembly today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provided three detailed examples of Hezbollah’s use of Lebanese civilians as human shields, which is a war crime....
September 29, 2020
Don’t Trust Kim Jong Un’s Unexpected Apology Over Murder of South Korean Official
Kim Jong Un issued a rare apology to the South Korean government on September 25th after North Korean soldiers killed and then burned the corpse of a South Korean government official, which sparked outrage...
September 28, 2020
Trudeau Fails Canadian-Iranians
Recent developments confirm that Canada has become a major hub for the Islamic Republic in Iran and its supporters, and perhaps an unsafe place for Canadian-Iranian democracy activists. On January 8, 2020,...
September 28, 2020
America’s military deserves timely funding from Congress
As the federal fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, the Department of Defense once again does not have an on-time authorization or full-year defense appropriation from Congress. Sadly, the use of so-called continuing...
September 27, 2020
UAE-Israel Treaty Is Far Larger Step Towards Peace Than Critics Allege
Criticism of Israel’s treaty with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been relentless. The New York Times’ Roger Cohen calls it “Trump’s Middle Eastern Mirage” and “something rotten.” A Washington...
September 26, 2020
Reforming Tokyo’s Ballistic Missile Defense is a Priority for Japan’s New Prime Minister
With Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Japan’s new prime minister, one of the first pressing policy choices that he faces concerns the future of Japan’s ballistic and cruise missile defense (BMD) architecture....
September 26, 2020
Trump succeeded where the UN failed
President Trump’s speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly highlighted an uncomfortable truth for many foreign diplomats: Trump’s sometimes unconventional foreign policy has succeeded...
September 25, 2020
Hezbollah’s History with Ammonium Nitrate: The Danger to Europe
Ambassador Nathan Sales, U.S. coordinator for counterterrorism at the Department of State, announced last week that Hezbollah has transported and stored ammonium nitrate throughout Europe. While the disclosure...
September 25, 2020
Hold Russia accountable for latest chemical weapons attack
Excerpt Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist who was poisoned with a rare nerve agent while traveling in Russia, has recovered sufficiently to do what he does best:...
September 25, 2020
As UN celebrates 75th anniversary, dictators still dominate
The United Nations is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, but hold the applause. The global body has still failed to address the two key issues that undermine its legitimacy in the United States:...
September 24, 2020
The Iraq-Iran War: An Unhappy 40th Anniversary
September 24, 2020
Trapped in a Pandemic: Iran’s Political Prisoners Face COVID-19 Behind Bars
“Our bodies are ruined,” Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights advocate, wrote in July. “There are twelve of us in the ward who have come down with the coronavirus,”...
September 23, 2020
Xi vs. Trump at the United Nations
President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping clashed at the United Nations this week, each using rhetoric that reflected their opposing worldviews in recorded speeches. Trump delivered a direct indictment of...
September 23, 2020
New Explosion in Lebanon at Site That Belongs To Affiliate of Hezbollah
There was a large explosion in southern Lebanon yesterday in a built-up residential area controlled by Hezbollah. The explosion underscores the risks associated with Hezbollah’s de facto control of Lebanon...
September 23, 2020
Iran’s Turkey-Based Sanctions-Evasion Scheme More Extensive Than Previously Reported
Iran’s sanctions-evasion schemes involving Turkey “started earlier, lasted longer, extended further, and involved more people and countries” than previously known, according to a series of deeply...
September 23, 2020
Hezbollah Finance in Lebanon
September 23, 2020
A separate peace in the Middle East
Before there was a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, there was an Arab-Israeli conflict. Last week, on the White House lawn, that older conflict was put to rest. In normal times, we’d agree that the president...
September 23, 2020
Great power competition heats up in the thawing Arctic, and the US must respond
Russia and China have been busy in a rapidly changing Arctic, and America seems to have barely noticed. Focused elsewhere, the U.S. now finds itself ill-prepared to compete in the thawing, resource-rich...
September 22, 2020
Why skepticism, not China, may be the greatest threat to US Pacific strategy
Washington finds itself playing diplomatic catch-up as Beijing continues to deepen its influence across the Pacific. Case in point: Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s late August trip to Palau was clearly...
September 22, 2020
Israel’s next peace deal will be with Sudan
On the heels of the historic peace accords Israel signed last week with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, another regional deal is now possible. Sudan, once a terror safe harbor, is openly mulling...
September 22, 2020
How Hezbollah Collaborates With Latin American Drug Cartels
Last month, Dutch authorities raided a lab in a small village where Colombian cartels turned charcoal-camouflaged cocaine briquettes back into drugs. The charcoal that most Americans burn in their barbecues...
September 21, 2020
Fear grows for jailed Qatari royal amid health decline as wife pleads at UN for release
Pressure is mounting over the case of Qatari Sheikh Talal Al Thani – the grandson of the founder of the gas-rich state – after his wife, Asma Arian, submitted an 11th-hour plea for his release...
September 20, 2020
Why The Iran-Iraq War Matters For The Success Of Maximum Pressure
“War, War until victory” was a popular slogan chanted by revolutionaries in Tehran amid the bloody Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). But after years of fighting with no victory in sight, Ayatollah Ruhollah...
September 19, 2020
Bombing in Bulgaria: Turning the Tide on Hezbollah
At 5:23 p.m. on July 18, 2012, a deadly explosion rocked Bulgaria’s Sarafavo airport near the Black Sea town of Burgas, killing five Jewish Israeli tourists and their Muslim Bulgarian bus driver....
September 18, 2020
Checking China’s Diplomatic Piracy in the South China Sea
China appears keen to bring piracy back as an instrument of foreign policy, but the days of eye patches and wooden legs are long gone. Instead, Beijing’s most effective raiding parties prefer business...
September 18, 2020
Strip Qatar’s Homophobic Regime of the 2022 World Cup Now
There is no shortage of compelling reasons to relocate the 2022 FIFA World Cup from the small Gulf country of Qatar to another host nation. The frequently cited arguments range from Qatar bribing members...
September 18, 2020
The Air Force Needs a New Non-Stealthy Bomber
In 1957, the U.S. military began to worry that the Soviet Union might have more strategic bombers than the United States. That fear of a “bomber gap” turned out to be baseless, but today, a dangerous...
September 17, 2020
Our Man in Geneva: The UN is bigger – but not better – than you think.
September 17, 2020
If Biden, Then What, on Iran?
Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” wrote Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man. Such sentiment describes perfectly the lingering adherents of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement known as the JCPOA....
September 17, 2020
Trump can upend the status quo again by recognizing Taiwan in international organizations
The United Nations General Assembly, currently gathering virtually in New York, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the U.N. this year. The meeting comes amid an unprecedented global health emergency and...
September 16, 2020
No, There is No ‘End in Sight’ to the Battle Against Al-Qaeda
On the eve of the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 hijackings, Christopher Miller, the new head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), declared that the “war against al-Qaeda” is nearly over. Miller...
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