Outside the Beltway

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

Yet another casualty of the Ukraine invasion.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Thousands of centrifuges have been destroyed.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

Those expecting Bernie Sanders’ agenda are sorely disappointed.

The chief diplomat of the United States isn’t very diplomatic (nor informative).

In response to the American assassination of a top General, Iran has announced the end of yet more restrictions imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

So far at least, Elizabeth Warren is not doing a good job of articulating her foreign policy positions. That needs to change if she’s going to be a serious candidate.

Trump’s error in Syria.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

While the world continues to evaluate the impact of Saturday’s attack on a Saudi oil facility, tensions in the Persian Gulf are increasing.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf thanks to a collection of actions by Iran, the United States, and United Kingdom.

Iran announced that it was exceeding another limitation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, upping the already tense situation in the Persian Gulf

Just over a year after the United States repudiated the JCPOA, Iran has surpassed a limit on uranium enrichment set by the JCPOA

Realistically, President Trump has very few options when it comes to dealing with Iran and its nuclear program.

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

A possible way forward?

Trump and Iran.

As we head toward a potential crisis in the Persian Gulf, the consequences of the President’s lies are coming home to roost.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg laid out his foreign policy platform in a speech this week. It’s certainly an improvement over the current President.

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

The White House claims to want to talk to Iran but the President’s actions make clear that negotiation is the furthest thing from his mind.

President Trump’s foreign policy has largely been a failure, and there are specific reasons why.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

The Trump Administration’s policies toward Iran aren’t going to work, but that’s because they aren’t supposed to work.

Strategic move or pointless provocation?

The Trump Administration continues to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, can it ever be repaired?

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

The Trump Administration has taken the latest step in a process that began in May with the withdrawal from the JCPOA. Where it takes us is anybody’s guess, but the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

The Trump Administration continues to insist that North Korea is violating promises that it clearly never made.

The Trump’s Administration’s rhetoric and actions have given the Iranians no reason to trust the United States going forward.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

Trump’s deal-making prowess in NK and Iran isn’t too impressive.

The supposed promises made at the Singapore Summit don’t appear to be working out in the real world.

The actions of the Trump administration are helping Russian-EU relations (to the detriment of the US).

South Korea’s President is saying that Kim Jong Un has renewed his supposed commitment to ‘denuclearization,’ but it isn’t at all clear what that means.

The President and the Secretary of State had some oddly contradictory statements this week.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a bombastic speech on Iran yesterday that reveals just how empty and dangerous the Trump Administration’s policy toward Iran actually is.

Russia wasn’t the only nation that sent people to meet with Trump Campaign officials at Trump Tower back in 2016 regarding assistance to the Trump Campaign.

Not surprisingly, the North Koreans are pushing back against American efforts to force them into a corner on denuclearization.

Does the administration know what it is doing?

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.