Category: International

Patrick Lawrence: Unsweet Dreams

The Ukraine question hung over the recent G20 summit even though  members have repeatedly signaled their wish to avoid the new cold war that Biden and his foreign-policy people are building.

The ‘Biden Phase’ of the Ukraine War

Zelensky’s visit to the White House this week comes at a defining moment, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, as the war in Ukraine has intertwined with the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan.

As British Schools Crumble

As the summer holidays ended in England and Wales, the Department for Education ordered over 100 school buildings to be fully or partially closed due to the dangers caused by a collapse-prone form of concrete.  

Westmoreland Revisited

Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.