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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Daniel Runde |Melinda Haring |Daniel Balson |Robert Silverman
Turkish-backed Arab jihadists have taken Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and are moving on Hama, the former capital of the Muslim Brotherhood-led revolt in 1981-1982. Here is my bottom line upfront – the realistic best option for Syria is survival of the Assad regime, with further weakening of its Iranian support – and following are three observations.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Daniel Runde |Ksenia Svetlova |J. Peter Pham |Melinda Haring
Since the US presidential election, friends and supporters have asked us at Razom for Ukraine how we feel about the future of Ukraine. Razom for Ukraine is an American aid and advocacy organization that has delivered more than $100 million in humanitarian assistance since 2022. Razom employs dozens of staff in Ukraine currently on the receiving end of Russian bombardment. We know what’s at stake. In short, our optimism about Ukraine’s future hasn’t changed. Ukraine will prevail in this war.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Michael Mandelbaum |Robert Silverman |Daniel Runde |Alan Dershowitz
The landslide election of Donald Trump’s holds out real promise of encouraging peace in the Middle East. Unlike President Biden, who demanded caution from Israel in exchange for providing arms, Trump seems to be sending a message that he will support Israel’s policy of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, even if that requires military action. He will also reimpose painful sanctions on Iran if it continues its march toward a nuclear arsenal.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Oshrit Birvadker |Ahmed Charai |Daniel Runde |Jacob Heilbrunn
Is the “Alt Reich,” the London Spectator recently asked on its cover, about to make a comeback? Germany, a model of stability for decades, has been thrown into turmoil by the steady rise of the Alternative Party for Germany, especially in its eastern states. On September 1, the 85th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II, the Alternative Party for Germany won a state election for the first time in Germany’s postwar history.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Daniel Runde
Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, deserves more attention from America and the West. In the face of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine and great power competition with China, the United States should build stronger diplomatic ties with Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries to enhance regional stability, counterbalance Russian and Chinese influence, and promote democratic values. Uzbekistan would clearly prefer a stronger relationship with the United States.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Daniel Runde
Great Power Competition, sometimes called the Second Cold War, is unfolding on a global scale. The United States is not competing with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China, nor is the United States competing with Vladimir Putin’s system in Russia. Today, we are competing along a possible “kinetic front” in East Asia (Taiwan and the Nine Dash Line), Ukraine, and Israel.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
nationalsecurityjournal.org | Daniel Runde
U.S. Congress should plan a national security supplemental in the lame-duck: Our partners, Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, will need more ammunition to keep them and us safe before the end of the calendar year. Congress should plan for a supplemental aid package for all three nations during the lame-duck session from mid-November to mid-December to ensure that these critical partners have the weapons needed to make plans for their security and ours over Calendar Year 2025.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
newsmax.com | Daniel Runde
If there was a way to reduce illegal migration without building a wall, stationing police or spending money, you would want to do that right?
If there was a way to enable tens of thousands of people to feed themselves instead of relying on US taxpayer supplied food, you would want to do that right?
If there was a way to buy your T-shirts from somewhere other than China, you would want to do that right?
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
csis.org | Daniel Runde
Executive SummaryThe U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM), the United States’ official export credit agency (ECA), is an independent, executive branch institution that supports U.S. businesses by financing the exports of goods and services. EXIM creates jobs at home and has been an important national security instrument. From 2015 to 2019 the bank was dormant due to the absence of a board quorum and the lack of a reauthorization of its charter from the U.S. Congress.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
csis.org | Daniel Runde |Ilya Timtchenko
The world’s economic leaders—the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom—will gather in Italy from June 13–15, 2024, for the 50th G7 summit to discuss, among other pressing issues, Russia’s war against Ukraine and how to enable Ukraine to win the war while sustaining international support for full compensation from Russia to Ukraine for damages and for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The transfer of Russian sovereign assets to Ukraine is on the agenda.
