International Affairs

[Vladimir Putin] only paid lip service to warmongering comments, but he spent most of the speech assuring Russians that he was aware of day-to-day hardships...It’s amazing how much time he spent talking about sewage.”

In contrast to Merkel’s visionary outward-looking speech [at the Munich Security Conference] that triggered warm applause, Mr. Pence delivered a stilted defense of Trump’s achievements to a skeptical audience.

Rather than serving as a unifying diplomatic exercise to highlight Iran’s troubling regional activities, the [Warsaw] summit primarily highlighted America’s diplomatic isolation from its European allies.