GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The day leaves an image that summarizes, better than any commentary, the character of this US foreign policy: President Trump celebrates a roadmap (memorandum of understanding) with Tehran abroad while, on the same day, his own Senate rebukes him for the first time with a war powers resolution.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The day has a single center of gravity—Bürgenstock’s table—around which almost everything else revolves: the price of crude oil, the key to the Strait of Hormuz, the real power in Tehran, and, less visibly but no less decisively, the internal war that the Iran-Contra affair has unleashed within the Republican Party.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The week dawns with the geopolitical pendulum swinging, once again, between diplomacy and outburst.
Brexit: Anatomy of a Disaster
The UK’s problems with the EU were caused by politicians who used “the villains in Brussels” as an excuse for their woes.