Trump’s Africa Deal Threatened by Continuing Ethnic Hatreds
On December 4, 2025, President Donald Trump presided over a signing ceremony at the US Institute for Peace for a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio added that “we look forward to turning the agreements that we will be signing […]
Will Turkey Allow Syria to Rebuild?
Syria is at a crossroads. President Donald Trump’s vow to do everything he can to help the war-torn country offers it a golden opportunity to wave goodbye to its dictatorial past. Unfortunately, Turkey’s regional ambitions are threatening to derail Syria’s rebirth. One of the most striking features of post-Assad Syria is the speed with which […]
Partition and Its Discontents
Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern India, William Collins, 2025 The most sweeping revision of the world’s political map in all of history took place in the twentieth century, when the great Europe-based multinational empires that had dominated the planet dissolved and their constituent parts became independent states. The most […]
Daniel Runde on Venezuela and Iran: Power Shifts and the New Global Geopolitical Moment
By answering the questions of Jacob Heilbrunn, Daniel Runde, Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) offers a sweeping assessment of recent geopolitical shocks, from Venezuela to Iran, and their implications for global power politics.
Hamas Restructures
According to Israeli military assessments, Hamas currently has no single figure currently holding the entire apparatus together. Israel’s elimination of the top tier has left a vacuum that the external leadership is rushing to fill. Hamas is in the final stages of an election process to select replacements for both Yahya Sinwar, the late head […]
A Sharp Right Turn for Chile
The resounding electoral victory on December 14 of conservative José Antonio Kast reflects the dissatisfactions of Chile, a country once poised to enter the ranks of the developed world but which in recent years has been stuck at the threshold. His predecessor, Gabriel Boric, made the mistake of believing that Chileans wanted a true “refounding” […]
Australia’s Reckoning with Strategic Failure
For more than two years now, a small number of Australians have warned that the country was drifting into dangerous territory: not through sudden radicalization but through a steady normalization of hate speech, blurring of moral boundaries and tolerance of rhetoric that often precedes violence. Those warnings were not abstract. They were made repeatedly across […]
A Father’s Cry, a Nation’s Future
There are moments when abstraction collapses under the weight of lived reality—when a single human voice compels strategy to confront morality. Such a moment emerged when a letter written by an Iranian father, living inside Iran and addressed to Jared Kushner, circulated widely across the Abraham TV platforms, reaching more than 27 million viewers. Devoid […]
The Iranian People Will Not Be Silenced
JST publisher Ahmed Charai has a message for the brave protestors in Iran.
The Timely Death of a US Navy Frigate Program
In late November, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan canceled the increasingly challenged Constellation-class frigate program. The Constellation was to be built as a modified version of the European multipurpose frigate, designed by Naval Group (a French company) and Fincantieri (an Italian company with shipyards in Wisconsin). Only two of the planned six frigates, already […]
