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U.S. lawmakers who may have been silent for the last 22 months are now speaking out publicly and blaming Israel for the starvation and famine conditions in the Gaza Strip. On CBS’s Face the Nation this Sunday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and long-time Israel supporter, slammed Jerusalem for Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis, declaring that "Israel is starving Palestinians with impunity.” Gazans are “systematically being st...| Responsible Statecraft
Forty-one percent of Americans, including 67% of Democrats and 14% of Republicans, believe that Israeli military actions in Gaza constitute either “genocide” (22%) or are "akin to genocide" (19%), according to a new poll released Monday by the University of Maryland Critical Issues series. Confirming a growing trend, younger respondents of both parties were more likely to say that Israel’s actions constitute genocide or the like. The poll, which surveyed more than 1,500 adults 18 and ol...| Responsible Statecraft
As President Trump’s second term kicked off, all signs pointed to a continued upswing in U.S.-India relations. At a White House press conference in February, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of his vision to “Make India Great Again” and how the United States under Trump would play a central role. “When it’s MAGA plus MIGA, it becomes a mega partnership for prosperity,” Modi said. During Trump’s first term, the two populist leaders hosted rallies for each other in their ...| Responsible Statecraft
After three years, the mystery of who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022 has, for all intents and purposes, been solved. But unlike the dramatic unmasking during a Scooby-Doo episode or the riveting declaration of "who done it" in front of a dinner party of sweating suspects in a Poirot mystery, the arrest of a former Ukrainian military officer accused of leading a team to sabotage the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines on Sept. 26, 2022, has landed like a cell phone...| Responsible Statecraft
After calming down a little during the early part of this year, the South China Sea is on the boil again. Two serious incidents have brought home the fact that the situation is becoming critical, and a Philippines-China military crisis could happen anytime, potentially pulling the United States in. On August 11, two Chinese vessels, one of which was a Chinese navy craft, collided while chasing a Philippine ship off Scarborough Shoal. The collision was serious, and several Chinese coast guard ...| Responsible Statecraft
On Friday, as three U.S. destroyers headed towards waters off of Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro mobilized 4.5 million militiamen in response, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a one-word tweet: “#Guyana.” The post included a screenshot of a statement from the Guyanese government, which echoed concerns from Washington about Venezuelan transnational organized crime, all but offering support for the military escalation. Those concerns are based on the debunked assertion that Mad...| Responsible Statecraft
In a new Al Jazeera docuseries called the Business of War, the Atlantic Council’s Mark Massa was left speechless in response to a question from journalist Hind Hassan about the think tank’s funding from weapons manufacturers. Massa, whose think tank accepted at least $10 million from Pentagon contractors in the past five years, paused for a revealing ten full seconds before stumbling through a non-answer. “There have been some other think tanks and other organizations that have done an ...| Responsible Statecraft
The failure of this week’s meeting in Washington to move the needle forward toward peace hinges, in my opinion, on the failure of the participants to properly understand the security dilemma they are facing. Rather than seeking security for all, Europe is still seeking partial security, only for Ukraine. This short-sightedness stems from the desire to punish Russia, which argues that it is only defending its national interests. It is telling that, toward the end of their joint press confere...| Responsible Statecraft
On August 25, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will be visiting the White House for his long-anticipated first summit with President Donald Trump. Having launched his presidency only in June, Lee hopes to use the summit as an opportunity to build a positive, cooperative relationship with Trump — a crucial diplomatic counterpart with whom he must learn to work to advance the U.S.-ROK alliance and achieve shared goals in the years to come. The new trade deal that Seoul and Washington reac...| Responsible Statecraft
In the wake of high-level Ukraine peace talks, including last Friday’s meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and a Monday meeting between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and myriad European leaders, mainstream media mainstays have been quick to ridicule the engagements, often passing them off simply as an effort by Trump to appease Putin. Multiple media organizations, including AP, CBS, and MSNBC zeroed in on how Trump was giving Putin the “r...| Responsible Statecraft
The 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025 shattered long-held assumptions, thrusting U.S.–Iran relations into uncharted territory. The conflict, a dramatic escalation of decades-long tensions, has left the Middle East teetering on the edge of broader instability. As the dust settles, the United States faces a critical juncture in its approach to Iran — one that could redefine the region for decades. Four plausible scenarios loom large, each carrying profound implications for global s...| Responsible Statecraft
Members of Congress are wrapping up August recess in their home districts and preparing to return to Capitol Hill. And if public polling is any indication, they’ve been facing constituents who want to know why their taxpayer dollars are enabling the carnage in Gaza, and what Congress is doing to put an end to it. If they are smart, lawmakers can work to end U.S. complicity by supporting the “Block the Bombs” bill, a proposal to block sales of bombs and explosive shells to Israel. Introd...| Responsible Statecraft
As Israel’s war on Gaza escalates with IDF troops now moving to take over Gaza City, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been deploying more extreme language than usual to describe his plans for “total” victory over Hamas. He has eschewed ceasefire talks, and is instead leaning into his expansive vision for a “Greater Israel,” which not only includes an Israeli takeover of Gaza but of neighboring territories too. His public remarks and media appearances over the last week ...| Responsible Statecraft
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to "cut the hands" of Israel's enemies, but his specific target — Yemen's Houthi movement (Ansarullah) — has not only survived months of IDF and U.S. military pressure, but has also grown stronger with each confrontation. The latest Israeli strike on Heyzaz power plant near Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, exemplifies this strategic failure: a symbolic attack on civilian infrastructure that inflicts severe hardship on Yemen's civilian population wh...| Responsible Statecraft
President Trump's meetings on Monday with his European and Ukrainian counterparts generated what appeared to be a consensus on a host of key war termination issues, the biggest among them being a format for viable security guarantees to Ukraine. Trump suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin has acquiesced to “Article 5-like” guarantees for Kyiv, a development that drew praise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the European leaders in attendance. This proposal is not ...| Responsible Statecraft
The Trump-Putin Alaska summit was about far more than Ukraine. Since long before the meeting in Anchorage, the Arctic has been recognized as a setting for U.S.-Russia cooperation. Now, with the historic presidential summit in the unexpected location of Alaska, the Arctic has been confirmed as one of the key areas for the normalization of the bilateral relationship. During the joint news conference with President Trump, President Putin said “cooperation in the Arctic and the resumption of re...| Responsible Statecraft
Rightwing pundit Tucker Carlson recently made Ted Cruz look like a buffoon. Cruz said during their interview in June, “I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things.” Carlson looked puzzled. He asked the Republican senator what part of the Bible said this. Cruz didn’t know. Carlson told Cruz he was citing Genesis, whether he realized it or not, but also ...| Responsible Statecraft
Since inauguration day, the Trump White House has routinely evoked a deep-rooted Cold War framework for expressing America’s relationship with war. This framing sits at odds with the president’s inaugural address in which Mr. Trump, conjuring Richard Nixon, argued that his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” From January 2025 on, the administration has instead engaged in a steady drumbeat of aggressive militaristic taunting, threatening real and perceived enemi...| Responsible Statecraft
President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders in the White House Monday to discuss a framework for a deal to end the war. The big takeaway: that all parties appear to agree that the U.S. and Europe would provide some sort of postwar security guarantees to deter another Russian invasion. What that might look like is still undefined. Trump also suggested an agreement would require “possible exchanges of territory” and consider the “w...| Responsible Statecraft
Israel’s 12-day war on Iran in June shocked the world, and led to the U.S. striking three of Iran’s nuclear facilities. But Trita Parsi, the Quincy Institute's Executive Vice President, stresses that this conflict was no one-off. Rather, another, much greater war between Israel and Iran may well occur — and that it will likely involve the United States. This would not be in America's interest, nor is it what Trump campaigned on when he was running for president. Instead, the U.S. must p...| Responsible Statecraft
If Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cannot agree in principle with the contours of a peace deal mapped out by President Trump, then the war will continue into 2026. I’d encourage him to take the deal, even if it may cause him to lose power. The stakes couldn’t be higher ahead of the showdown in the Oval Office today between President Donald Trump and President Zelensky, supported by EU leaders and the Secretary General of NATO. Following the Alaska Summit, President Trump has articu...| Responsible Statecraft
After much delay, Marco Rubio’s State Department finally released the 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, known internally as the Human Rights Reports (HRRs). These congressionally mandated reports are usually published in early spring about the events of the previous year. In addition to the significant lag in their release, the 2024 reports are drastically shorter and cover a much narrower range of human rights abuses than in previous years. They no longer include prison condi...| Responsible Statecraft
On June 27, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed a peace agreement in Washington, brokered by the United States. About a month later, on August 1, they agreed to a Regional Economic Integration Framework — another U.S.-brokered initiative linking the peace process to cross-border economic cooperation. All of this has been heralded as a “historic turning point” that could end years of conflict in eastern Congo between the M23 rebel movement, backed by Rwanda, and the ...| Responsible Statecraft
In Alaska he found reality: he is now embracing an agreement without demanding a ceasefire first, which would have never worked anyway.| Responsible Statecraft
If Biden is serious about democracy, he has a lot of work to do in Port-au-Prince| Responsible Statecraft
The much anticipated meeting between President Donald Trump and President Putin ended earlier than expected, but the two leaders addressed the press afterwards and appeared amicable while hinting at progress on an "agreement." But no deal, nor a framework for a deal was announced. They did not take questions afterwards. Trump, who had said earlier that without a ceasefire at the end of the day he might slap Russia with new sanctions, did not go there. If anything they broached the issue of a ...| Responsible Statecraft
The recent diplomatic flurry between Armenia and Azerbaijan, culminating in an unveiling at the White House of a much-touted draft peace agreement, has been hailed as a breakthrough for peace in the South Caucasus. But beneath the celebratory rhetoric lies a far more complicated reality — one where triumphalist narratives mask unresolved tensions and where military dominance rather than genuine compromise continues to dictate terms. A day before hosting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashiny...| Responsible Statecraft
Russia took 42.5 square miles of Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Tuesday, making its biggest advance in Ukraine since May 2024. Indeed, Russia took territory in one day that it normally would have taken in five or six days’ time. That advance follows a cascade of battlefield wins for Moscow, where Russia has chipped away at Ukrainian territory over the summer, especially in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. These ground gains could prove critical to the success — or failure — of upcoming diplom...| Responsible Statecraft
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky huddled with European leaders yesterday in advance of Donald Trump’s highly touted meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. The call, which Trump joined as well, was viewed as Europe and Ukraine’s final chance to influence the American president’s thinking ahead of the U.S.-Russia summit in Anchorage. With Ukraine’s position on the battlefield progressively worsening and Trump renewing his push for a ceasefire, European leaders have begun to make c...| Responsible Statecraft
In early August, Israeli energy company NewMed announced a record-breaking $35 billion deal to supply natural gas to Egypt, nearly tripling its current imports and binding Cairo’s energy future to its neighbor until at least 2040. Though Egyptian officials were quick to frame this not as a new agreement but as an “amendment” to a 2019 deal, the sheer scale of the deal — the largest in Israel’s export history — is indicative of a deepening and dangerous dependence on its neighbor f...| Responsible Statecraft
The rise of public support for the populist right, and in some cases also the populist left, has remodeled political competition in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland. British politics is increasingly following this trend, although a general election is not due until 2029. The right populist Reform UK party, led by veteran Brexiteer Nigel Farage, has been leading in opinion polls since April, clearly sapping the remaining strength of Britain’s venerable Conservative (Tory) Party. The unpopu...| Responsible Statecraft
Mixed indicators signal wartime growth has plateaued| Responsible Statecraft
A meeting in Alaska, while putting land concessions on the table, is an essential first step. Here's why.| Responsible Statecraft
There seems to be confirmation that it's happening but who has most to gain or lose is still a question| Responsible Statecraft
FEMA money to be contingent on pledge against any boycotts or divestment of Israeli companies| Responsible Statecraft
Exchanging nuclear threats like this is pure theater and we should not be applauding| Responsible Statecraft
As Jerusalem looks to change war tactics, Washington defers| Responsible Statecraft
There is a difference, and what is going on today will lead us to a much darker place| Responsible Statecraft
American who served as an armed contractor said they were instructed to shoot civilians at Gaza food sites| Responsible Statecraft
As her Free Press is poised to seal a $200 million deal with the mainstream news giant CBS, let us reflect on why| Responsible Statecraft
Lawmakers also question the use of American contractors at the aid hubs| Responsible Statecraft
The senator applauded aid entering the Strip, said Arabs should take over West Bank and Gaza| Responsible Statecraft
"It’s been a pretty crappy 45 days" for those trying to keep the president from making the same mistakes as his predecessors| Responsible Statecraft
From microchips to maritime trade, the stakes make military action an economic gamble Beijing can’t take| Responsible Statecraft
As talk of defending Taipei militarily against invasion heats up in Washington, a new wargame offers a dose of reality.| Responsible Statecraft
This coincides with more evidence that IDF forces are deliberately killing civilians, including children| Responsible Statecraft
A war with China over the island should be off the table (VIDEO)| Responsible Statecraft
Neocons and hawks are crowing today but the president would be smart to remember 'America First' means doing things differently| Responsible Statecraft
Hundreds of billions of dollars have gone to aiding Taipei but geography is still the island's best defense| Responsible Statecraft
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From Eisenhower to Obama, American leaders have long questioned the contours and commitment to the alliance| Responsible Statecraft
We should let the 75 year old alliance sleep| Responsible Statecraft
Coalition countries are giving Kyiv money that helps prolong a losing war while saddling the suffering country with enormous debt| Responsible Statecraft
Much anticipated meeting of European partners was postponed as Biden bows out| Responsible Statecraft
The president's policies reflect his appointments: ideologues who should have retired after previous foreign policy debacles.| Responsible Statecraft
The public spectacle doesn't change the fact that the war needs to end soon| Responsible Statecraft
A crisis consultation mechanism would provide a platform for effectively hashing out disputes among Russia, NATO and the EU| Responsible Statecraft
Calling Zelensky a ‘dictator’ who started the war has only reenergized the president's foreign policy critics| Responsible Statecraft
Kyiv can't keep holding on to unrealistic victory plans and peace formulas| Responsible Statecraft
A negotiated settlement is the best way for Kyiv to preserve independence (VIDEO)| Responsible Statecraft
The Ukrainian president told the audience the US may not be counted on, and Russia is sending troops to Belarus this summer| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on china. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about china.| Responsible Statecraft
Putin was right to call Zelensky's bluff and send lower level officials — real parameters need to be hammered out Thursday, first| Responsible Statecraft
The former national security adviser was reportedly coordinating with Israel to do it| Responsible Statecraft
Reports today suggest both sides — on deadline — submitted drafts for preliminary peace accord| Responsible Statecraft
The latest coverage of Africa from Responsible Statecraft| Responsible Statecraft
From Gaza to Ukraine, the Pontiff was consistent in his pursuit of peace, which drew fire from certain sectors| Responsible Statecraft
The Pontiff had engaged in many delicate diplomatic missions in Havana but died months after Trump reversed key wins| Responsible Statecraft
After similar outreach to Sunnis, the pontiff's 2021 meeting with Shia's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani transcended boundaries and fostered co-existence| Responsible Statecraft
Not only are the 2,000 troops there in harm's way, their presence may actual hinder diplomatic progress under the new government| Responsible Statecraft
A French official's bizarre speech itemizing paranoid calamities while lambasting Trump as a 'traitor' is just staving off the inevitable| Responsible Statecraft
A Euro force including British troops is the biggest potential dealbreaker as the US would be expected to backstop it| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on trump administration. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about trump administration.| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on russia. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about russia.| Responsible Statecraft
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Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks| Responsible Statecraft
New leadership brings SDF into central govt, leaving little reason for Washington to keep protecting it| Responsible Statecraft
As Trump commits to max pressure 2.0, Moscow is expressing interest in mediating a new deal| Responsible Statecraft
The pause was meant to bring Zelensky to the table, not provide a good reason for Moscow to walk away from it| Responsible Statecraft
'I did not vote for him and have been critical of most of his moves. But in regard to the war...I believe he is on the right track'| Responsible Statecraft
It's strategic malpractice for the White House to give Israel carte blanche when it knows it could drag the US into a wider conflict.| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on ukraine war. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about ukraine war.| Responsible Statecraft
It may be a cynical strategy, but he seems to have read the room while she has chosen a more confused, if not hawkish path| Responsible Statecraft
He's had some dumb ideas too but he's running circles around the left| Responsible Statecraft
The Russians have adapted to all Western arms. Not to acknowledge the situation today is toying with the fate of a nation| Responsible Statecraft
One month later, Kyiv's invasion of Russia hasn't moved the needle, while Moscow has made gains on other fronts| Responsible Statecraft
Without a strategy the new aid could be the worst thing to happen to the war beleaguered country right now. Here's why.| Responsible Statecraft
The Biden administration needs to tell the American people what it really thinks Kyiv can actually achieve| Responsible Statecraft
He deserves special gratitude from the Ukrainian and European establishments for telling the truth before things go way too far| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on israel. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about israel.| Responsible Statecraft
Read about the latest news & greatest stories on iran. On Responsible Statecraft you'll find everything you need to know about iran.| Responsible Statecraft
The newly minted secretary of state undermined the basis of primacy| Responsible Statecraft
Gabbard gets a boost ahead of tumultuous hearing on Thursday| Responsible Statecraft
Recreating the project on American soil would be hugely expensive and largely pointless| Responsible Statecraft
Russia and China want to trade in the Northern Sea Route. Consider it a bargaining chip that could benefit the West, too.| Responsible Statecraft
Mark Rutte wants Cold War spending but Russia is in no way the same adversary, calling into question real motives| Responsible Statecraft
Trump and other leaders reportedly discussed the plan but it's a trial balloon that should be shot down immediately| Responsible Statecraft
Putin says Moscow launched new experimental IRBM, US military confirms| Responsible Statecraft
The war has taken its toll, as men fight or flee, and few are left behind to work| Responsible Statecraft
