by John M. Curtis | Jul 31, 2019
Rejecting 73-year-old Donald Trump’s plan to join a multinational security force in the Persian Gulf, Germany said it would not participate in the U.S. “maximum pressure” campaign. Since Trump bailed out of former President Barack Obama’s July 15, 2015 Joint...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 30, 2019
Tonight’s CNN Democrat debate feature Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, both of whom have few degrees of separation between their political views. Both Sanders and Warren want free college tuition, student loan debt forgiveness, national health...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 29, 2019
White House officials looked skeptically at a recent proposal by 59-year-old , U.S.-educated Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for more nuclear inspections in exchange for lifting U.S. sanctions. When former President Barack Obama signed the Joint...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 29, 2019
Worried that Britain’s new 55-year-old Prime Minister Boris Johnson may let the U.K. crash out of the European Union Oct. 31, Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar warned the U.K. about playing hardball. European Union officials refused to yield on the “backstop,” the...
by John M. Curtis | Jul 27, 2019
President Donald Trump’s trade war with China won’t end anytime soon, with Chinese President Xi Jinping thinking that he’d get a better deal with a Democrat if Trump loses in 2020. While Xi knows there’s no guarantee, Trump’s committed to pushing ahead with a deal,...