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This year the Trump administration pursued a sweeping agenda that critics say includes aggressive immigration enforcement, expansive executive orders (218 EOs in 2025), military actions in the Caribbe...
Yes: ’s newly released elevates homeland defense and explicitly frames a risk environment in which adversaries can directly threaten — calling out long‑range missiles, and drones as factors that compr...
Chinese and Russian oil firms moved from financiers and partners to operational lifelines for Venezuela’s oil sector after Western companies scaled back or were forced out, providing investment, marke...
U.S. military strategy under Obama emphasized restraint, multilateral burden‑sharing, counterterrorism with limited footprint and legal constraints on force; critics say it prioritized diplomacy and n...
, , and have been pillars of external support network, supplying military hardware, diplomatic cover, financing and industrial cooperation that reshaped ’s defense posture and international alignments...
President Trump’s second-term foreign policy produced several headline agreements: a series of reciprocal trade frameworks and at least two finalized bilateral trade deals (e.g., Malaysia and Cambodia...
The (NDS) elevates to top priority and couples that shift with a renewed emphasis on modernizing to prevent “nuclear blackmail,” while preserving deterrence roles abroad in a more limited fashion . Th...
Scholars and analysts credit several Trump-era initiatives with strengthening aspects of U.S. leverage: pushing NATO allies toward a 5% of GDP defense-spending pledge at the June 2025 Hague summit, a ...
The key claims about US economic aid to Argentina converge on three themes: the aid is intended to stabilize Argentina and secure US strategic interests in the Western Hemisphere, critics argue it pri...
International "push" factors — regional violence, state failure, and climate-driven economic shocks — combined with "pull" signals such as U.S. labor demand and perceived enforcement gaps to drive maj...
The world is more dangerous in 2026 than in recent years: experts list multiple high-probability, high-impact regional wars and growing great-power tensions, but most authoritative assessments stop sh...
The Caribbean Sea is overwhelmingly a transshipment corridor for cocaine, with multiple agencies and investigative outlets documenting large seizures and routing patterns that put a substantial share ...
U.S. removals projected for 2025 are concentrated overwhelmingly in the Western Hemisphere, with Mexico and Central American countries accounting for the largest share, while other notable source coun...
Maritime interdiction campaigns disrupt shipments at sea and can seize large loads and degrade trafficker revenue, but they face coverage, asset, and detection limits that leave most flows undetected ...
President Trump’s second-term record to date centers on an exceptionally high volume of unilateral executive actions—Ballotpedia counts 221 executive orders, 55 memoranda and 113 proclamations as of D...
Donald Trump’s second-term use of national-security powers centered on a new 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) that reoriented U.S. priorities toward a hemispheric focus, economic nationalism, and...
Leaders have repeatedly amplified or reframed external threats to mobilize support, justify policy shifts, or reprioritize resources — from modern U.S. National Security Strategy debates over which ri...
The available reporting and government documents show the U.S. Coast Guard concentrated its largest bulk cocaine seizures in the Eastern Pacific in 2024, with the service reporting major interdictions...
The available reporting and datasets compiled here show there is consistently reported for how much of U.S. foreign aid goes specifically to South America; most sources instead report figures for the ...
The assembled analyses identify two central claims: the United States is preparing a substantial financial support package for Argentina (framed as a swap line or loan of up to $20 billion), and that ...