Ambassador John Bolton is a regular guest on television, radio, and writes columns for major media publications. Check back here daily to for commentary and analysis of breaking news and current events from John Bolton.
Ambassador John Bolton is a regular guest on television, radio, and writes columns for major media publications. Check back here daily to for commentary and analysis of breaking news and current events from John Bolton.
The workings of history often seem inevitable: Bygone decisions appear inescapable, and the viability of alternate pathways easily discounted. Recent history is, however, recent—important moments not yet carved in stone. Serhii Plokhy’s “The Nuclear Age” ably presents the variability of political, military and ethical considerations that have been central...
President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan may already be verging on collapse, Hamas’s release of Israel’s remaining hostages being its sole success. What this limited, but welcome, humanitarian achievement should teach us strategically, however, is its underlying cause. Since Hamas’s initial 2023 barbaric attack, Israel, assisted by the United...
Donald Trump proclaimed (https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-closest-weve-ever-come-full-text-of-trump-netanyahu-statements-on-deal-to-end-gaza-war/) that his Middle East peace plan marked “a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.” Four days later, Hamas said it was prepared to release all remaining hostages to Israel.(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/middleeast/hamas-trump-gaza-deal.html) Trump responded(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/hamas-gaza-peace-ceasefire-deal/) that Hamas had shown “they...
Optimists cite what they see as key differences between the failed January ceasefire and today. While accurate, neither necessarily foreshadows rapid progress. With the last Israeli hostages living and dead to be released from Hamas captivity imminently, there is every reason for them and their families to celebrate...
Recent reports that the Trump administration is withholding roughly $400 million of military assistance to Taiwan are deeply disturbing. Although the White House maintains no final decisions have been made, the pause is eerily similar to Trump’s summer 2019 withholding of security assistance to Ukraine, for reasons entirely unrelated...
Russia’s recent breach of Polish airspace may be Donald Trump’s last chance to show resolute opposition to Moscow’s assaults against Ukraine. But the stakes aren’t limited to the European battlefront. America must also make clear to China and others that unprovoked aggression against U.S. friends and allies beyond Europe...
Lebanon today faces the existential question of whether it can emerge from decades of war and destruction, or whether it will again be consumed by civil conflict and terrorist domination. Its chance to return to “normalcy” is because of Israel’s strikes against Iran and its Middle Eastern terrorist proxies, following Hamas’s...
In its typically authoritarian way, China (or, more accurately, its Communist Party) is commemorating the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end with a big military parade on September 3. The whole gang will be there to celebrate with Xi Jinping; Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un lead the...
As Israel’s Gaza campaign against Hamas intensifies, the levels of Middle Eastern political rhetoric have also risen. Prominent Israeli political leaders proclaim their support for a ”Greater Israel,” a slogan perhaps as old as the modern Jewish state itself. Arab leaders, and many others outside the region, continue to...
Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy today is no more coherent than it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office. Collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds among Ukraine, Russia, several European countries, and America, Trump’s negotiations...
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