Mark N. Katz

1 week ago | katzeyeview.wordpress.com | Mark N. Katz

The recent scandal about the editor of The Atlantic being inappropriately included in a high-level U.S. Government discussion about whether and how the U.S. military should attack Yemen’s Houthis in response to Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping and on Israel raises two important questions. First: If U.S. attacks on the Houthis in the past have not been able to halt these Houthi attacks, then can further such U.S. attacks be expected to do so?

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Mark N. Katz

In the first few months of 2025, there has been a widely publicized divergence in foreign policy interests between the US President Donald Trump’s administration on the one hand and most European governments on the other. While the new president has been more willing to make concessions to Russia and pressure Ukraine in order to bring about an end to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Yet most European governments have remained staunchly supportive of Ukraine and suspicious of Russia.

3 weeks ago | katzeyeview.wordpress.com | Mark N. Katz

A new report issued by the conservative Heritage Foundation about U.S.-Israeli relations has caused quite a stir. The report calls for the winding down of American foreign military financing for Israel by 2047, an increase in U.S.-Israel cooperative programs, and most notably, U.S. foreign military sales to Israel (which Israel will pay for) going from zero now to $2.25 billion by 2047.

1 month ago | thehill.com | Mark N. Katz

Last week’s on-camera confrontation between President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on the one hand, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the other, has shocked the world. One especially remarkable feature was Trump’s insistence by Trump, and even more that of Vance, that Zelensky had not thanked the U.S. sufficiently for American support for Ukraine after Russia invaded it.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Mark N. Katz

Last week’s on-camera confrontation between President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on the one hand, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the other, has shocked the world. One especially remarkable feature was Trump’s insistence by Trump, and even more that of Vance, that Zelensky had not thanked the U.S. sufficiently for American support for Ukraine after Russia invaded it.