Ariel Cohen

“For now, we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face…” – 1 Corinthians 13:12 Politics, foreign and domestic, are based on interests – nothing new here. However, when the time horizon for calculating national interests collapses, such as under the pressure of impending presidential elections, decisions can be locked in with catastrophic […]

U.S.-Russian relations have become increasingly edgy. Following the summit meeting between President Joe Biden and President Vladimir Putin, a confrontation between a British warship and a Russian one in the Black Sea, and amid NATO’s Sea Breeze exercise with Ukraine, Russia has taken aggressive steps of its own in the region and near Japan. Join […]

The current murmurings of friction between the Trump administration and European leaders, including with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, appear to threaten the cohesion of the West as we know it. Despite smiles during the Trump-Macron summit in Paris, the key U.S. relationship in the Old Continent – with Germany – is in trouble. And while […]