If the Trump administration continues to project ambivalence and rely on transactional deal-making, it will not prevent the next war. It will hasten it—and risk making the next war nuclear.

President Trump may have been trying to ‘reverse Nixon’ Russia-China axis in order to drive a wedge between the two, but so far he has achieved the opposite outcome.

In engaging in the kind of economic coercion explicitly forbidden by the Budapest Memorandum, the Trump administration has undermined decades of nonproliferation efforts, eroded US diplomatic credibility, and set a precedent that weakens the power of any future US assurance.

The Trump administration is actively undermining the conditions that allowed American industry—and American markets—to dominate for so long.

The recent Trump tariffs are not just a trade issue. They are an act of geopolitical self-sabotage, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the future prospects for the US Asia Pivot.

Despite arguments advocating retrenchment, the benefits of maintaining a strong military presence in Europe far outweigh the costs for Washington.