David Ignatius's Blog, page 84

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The last thing the Middle East needs right now is another failed state.

Gina Haspel is tainted by her torture involvement. But she understands Russia.

Deciding whether to endorse her nomination to lead the CIA is no easy call.

Should Kim get the credit for the Korean detente?

The North Korean leader has been working a double strategy on nuclear weapons and his country’s economy.

Armenia escapes its post-Soviet malaise

A successful grass-roots movement has found a way, for now, to straddle Russia and the West.

We know Iran’s nuclear secrets now. Let’s make the most of them.

Thanks to Israeli intelligence, Trump just got lucky on Iran. But how will he use the windfall?

Have Trump and Macron learned to use each other?

Macron emerges from his Washington trip as a clever, somewhat devious French counterpoint to Trump.

We know an awful lot about Manafort and Russia. Trump can’t make it disappear.

Robert S. Mueller III’s filings and other documents suggest a pattern of collusion, money laundering and coverup.

Will our next war be fought among the stars?

The future battle may be in the heavens, but there is already sparring on the ground over who should control U.S. space-war-fighting capability

Enough whiplash on Syria. Trump needs an actual strategy.

Enforcing global standards against the use of chemical weapons is right, but tweeting out bellicose war plans isn’t.

Don’t target Facebook. The Internet has a much bigger problem.

Is the underlying “marketplace of ideas” experiencing market failure?