Trump: Lurching towards a New Foreign Policy? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 6 January 2019 If the rise of strong new powers like China poses a challenge to the older US-dominated geopolitical order, what about about the converse? The challenge to the international order created by a declining and erratic great power ever more at odds […]
Syria: bottom line questions Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 16 April 2018 The Trump administration has just delivered several dozen military strikes against Syria purportedly aimed at chemical production and storage facilities. It was an act the international community feared might lead to overt war in Syria between the US, Iran and Russia, but it came […]
Trump Pulls the Plug in Syria Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 21 July 2017 Every once in a while President Trump manages to get something right. This time it is the decision to call off the broad US covert assistance to the Syrian opposition forces fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Asad. Asad has been notoriously brutal […]
Graham E. Fuller, ContributorFormer Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council Assad Is A Monster But If Trump Overthrows Him, Syria Will Likely Be Run By Terrorists If the U.S. topples Assad, it’ll create a power vacuum for warring extremists. 04/11/2017 09:52 am ET SANA SANA / REUTERSAssad during an interview with a Croatian […]
Syria—what cost “victory?” Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 6 October 2016 A deep contradiction lies at the heart of US policy towards the present horrifying conflict in Syria. Which is better? To now reluctantly accept continuation of Bashar al-Asad in power in Damascus for the foreseeable future, thereby hastening the end of the war and the […]
How Can Turkey Overcome its Foreign policy Mess? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 18 February 2016 What does Turkey need to do to overcome its present foreign policy fiasco, one of the worst in modern Turkish history? The irony of all this is that those directly responsible for this mess—the team of Recep Tayip Erdogan (now […]
Fuller’s Last Year (2015) Predictions— Part 2 Prediction on Turkey: (I was considerably off base on this one) 2015 Prediction:President Erdoğan in Turkey will find his influence beginning to crumble in 2015. After a brilliant prime-ministership for the first decade of AKP power, he has become mired in corruption charges and has lashed out in […]
ISIS- The Hour Has Struck Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 14 November 2015 ISIS, with its horrific attack on purely civilian targets in Paris, has established new realities about its nature, capabilities and intentions. The need for its elimination can now no longer be in doubt. It is not that Parisian lives are more important than […]
Turkey and the Kurds —The Question Mark at the Heart of the Region Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 9 November 2015 Predictions among Turkey-watchers about the outcome of Turkey’s 1 November elections were mostly wrong—including my own— as Erdoğan managed to regain majority control of Parliament. Anxiety over potential political and social chaos played a significant […]
Everybody Betraying Everybody in Syria
October 16, 2019 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Iran, Israel, Kurds, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, US policy •
Everybody Betraying Everybody in Syria Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 16 October 2019 Just what have we witnessed in the recent events in Syria? It’s hard to know, given the avalanche of superficial and over-the-top headlines in most US media: betrayal of the Kurds, handing Syria over to Russia, caving to Turkey’s Erdogan, bestowing a gift […]
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