Ilan Berman
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Trump’s Iran strategy has a China problem | Opinion (opens the original)
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Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington last week was a grand affair, full of pomp and circumstance designed to convey a clear message: America, under President Donald Trump, is seeking a more cooperative relationship with the People's Republic of China. The symbolism was unmistakable. In an unusual diplomatic gesture, Trump personally greeted Xi on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, and the Chinese leader subsequently receiv
Washington needs a long game on Iran | Opinion (opens the original)
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Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council When the Trump administration launched Operation Epic Fury back in late February, its expectation was that the fight against Iran would be quick and decisive. The precedent was Operation Midnight Hammer, the successful U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities the previous summer. That campaign was characterized by overwhelming force, devastating results and a significant setback for the Islamic Republic’s strategic capabilities. Six months
Marco Rubio is right—the ICC is dangerously flawed | Opinion (opens the original)
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Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council Amid the ongoing churn of the on-again, off-again U.S. war with Iran last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a different—and surprising—foreign policy objective: dismantling the International Criminal Court (ICC). His initiative envisions a “whole of government” effort to “systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate, target American servicemen or officials, or otherwise threaten American sovereignty,” the State Departmen
America's Syria strategy has a Russia problem | Opinion (opens the original)
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Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council For much of the past two years, conventional wisdom has held that Russia would be one of the biggest losers of the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria. After investing heavily for decades in military, political and economic terms in order to preserve Assad's hold on power, the Kremlin seemed destined to see that influence evaporate when former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham swept to power in Damascus in December 2024. The
Why Putin may be eyeing another mobilization | Opinion (opens the original)
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Senior Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council Is Russia on the cusp of another military draft? Just a few weeks ago, the idea was pretty much unthinkable, and for good reason. Back in September of 2022, when the Kremlin launched its first “partial mobilization” with the goal of beefing up its front line forces in their assault on Ukraine, the results were nothing short of ruinous. Ordinary Russians voted with their feet, and the country experienced a historic exodus of some 800,000 to o
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