The U.S. shot down a Syrian fighter jet on Sunday, prompting a hypocritical reaction from the Russians and escalating tensions with them in a situation where Putin is strongly supporting Syrian dictator Assad with both ground and air power. … [Read more...]

Last week, Trump railed against the country of Qatar, declaring them to be major sponsors of terrorism and Islamic extremism (while taking the side of Saudi Arabia, which has a much bigger problem with Islamic extremism than Qatar). This week, he's selling them $21 billion in weapons. … [Read more...]

My former AINN colleague Spencer Ackerman has left The Guardian and is now a senior national security reporter for the Daily Beast, and he has a report that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was pushing a plan to cooperate with the Russian military that would have been illegal. … [Read more...]

It has already been reported that Trump removed language explicitly endorsing Article 5 of the NATO treaty during a meeting of NATO leaders in Europe, but now Politico has been given the exact language he removed from the speech by exasperated White House aides. … [Read more...]

On his trip to the Middle East, Donald Trump made a huge deal out of the $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, a deal that was negotiated by the Obama administration, and how it would create "millions" of jobs. Turns out it isn't even really a deal at this point. … [Read more...]

When Donald Trump gave his speech at NATO, his national security advisers were expecting him to give a full endorsement of Article 5, the part of the treaty requiring us to defend the other nations in the alliance if attacked. He took that out at the last minute, much to their shock. … [Read more...]