Daniel R. DePetris

Is Taiwan worth all the trouble?

The fact that President Donald Trump is reinstating his maximum pressure policy implies he believes it just needed more time to play out.

How valuable is Saudi Arabia to the United States, really?

When asked whether the Gaza ceasefire will hold, President Donald Trump declared that he wasn't confident. He might as well be talking about his pet diplomatic project in the Middle East.

Is this surprising? Of course not.

No president gets everything right.

Support for a full Ukrainian military victory is getting more precarious in Europe with every passing day.

Whatever hypothetical deal is negotiated between Ukraine and Russia, the Europeans won't be able to avoid playing a major role enforcing it.

Syria's external stakeholders are using the Assad regime's demise to press their own interests.

If shutting down the country's political process was meant to usher in a new era more to Yoon's liking, it backfired in spectacular fashion.

The question everybody from Washington to Warsaw is asking is how Donald Trump plans on managing the war in Ukraine.

Everybody should calm down.

Donald Trump is frequently known as a transactional politician, a man who wants to make deals even with Washington's biggest adversaries. On China, however, Trump's hardline advisers may attempt to temper his pragmatic streak.

Any descriptions of Donald Trump's foreign policy right now should be read as entertainment, not fact.

Discussions between Ukrainian and Russian officials about ceasing attacks on energy infrastructure stopped when Zelensky ordered the Kursk offensive.

Despite the ebb and flow of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been consistent about his overall objective: total victory.

On October 1, Israel dodged a bullet—or, more accurately, a barrage of 180 ballistic missiles from Iran.

When asked on Oct. 2 whether he would support an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program, President Joe Biden replied "no." It's the right answer and one I hope he sticks to.

It's difficult to see how the war will end anytime soon.

Netanyahu can have one or the other—save the remaining hostages or destroy Hamas, which the IDF's own spokesman acknowledged isn't possible—but not both.

Despite what AMLO and his surrogates may say in public, it's difficult not to see the judicial reform measure as nothing short of a transparent revenge campaign against the one institution in Mexico's system of government—the courts—that has put a check on his policies.

U.S. military force against Iran will have first and second-order effects, all of them negative.

War is ugly and unpredictable.

It's unclear whether Kim Jong Un feels the need to negotiate with the U.S. or South Korea at this point.

No policy choice is cost-free. Not even when the benefits are clear.

Israel and Hezbollah may be mortal enemies, but it's difficult to see how a full-blown conflict serves either of their interests.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also extremely defensive.

J.D. Vance isn't shy about expressing his displeasure with Europe's tendency to lean on the U.S.

We are long past the days of big European personalities and consequential heads of state like Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair, and Angela Merkel.

If Macron thought dissolving the French National Assembly immediately after the EU elections and daring French voters to bring the far-right into power would scare them straight, it backfired in spectacular fashion.