America’s allies and enemies alike will place their 2019 foreign policy bets on a hunch: whether or not President Trump will win a second term in 2020.
Despite the troublesome tweets and sometimes reprehensible rhetoric, in practice the Trump administration has largely stood by its friends and stiff-armed its enemies.
But the 2020 elections raise a big question: What if the “anti-Trump” candidate is elected? It could bring anything from “Trumpian policies by other names” to “whatever Trump did, just do the opposite.”
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- January 1, 2019
The 5 greatest threats to national security in 2019 -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
5 Big National Security Predictions for 2019 -- James Holmes, RCD
On Geopolitics: Looking Back at 2018 -- Stratfor Worldview
Intel: How the US exit has triggered a new scramble for influence in Syria -- Al-Monitor
US policy spreads gloom in Iran -- Shabnam von Hein, DW
Saudi Arabia takes charge of Afghan peace talks -- M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
4 ideas from NKorean leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech -- Eric Talmadge, AP
South China Sea stand-off: Vietnam takes hard line while negotiating code of conduct but will Beijing listen? -- SCMP/Reuters
Nukes, economy, Trump summit: What's on Kim Jong-un's 2019 agenda -- Al Jazeera
Make or break for Hun Sen’s one-party state -- David Hutt, Asia Times
How the U.S. Should Treat Brazil’s Bolsonaro -- Bloomberg
Venezuela: The country that has lost three million people -- Katy Watson, BBC
Yes, Our Unpopular Wars Are Worth It -- Abe Greenwald, Commentary
How the U.S. Government Hides Foreign Interventions from the Public -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev, National Interest
The Most Popular Articles of 2018 -- Economist
We haven't seen the End of History. We are witnessing its bloody return -- Stan Grant, ABC News Online
