View this email in your browser ([link removed])
[link removed]
Analysis ([link removed]) Reporting ([link removed]) Qiosk ([link removed]) About ([link removed])
Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here ([link removed]) .
** Trump on New Start nuke treaty with Russia: if 'it expires it expires' ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Stavroula Pabst on Jan 12, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image As the February 5 expiration date for New START — the last nuclear arms control treaty remaining between the U.S. and Russia — looms, the Trump administration appears ready to let it die without an immediate replacement.
Read in browser » ([link removed])
** Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By William LeoGrande on Jan 12, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image Of the 100 or more people killed ([link removed]) in the U.S. military operation that abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, 32 were Cuban security officers, most of them part of Maduro’s personal security detail who died “in direct combat against the attackers,” according ([link removed]) to Havana.
Read in browser » ([link removed])
** As Tehran cracks down, Trump’s likely instincts are to stay out ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Trita Parsi on Jan 09, 2026 04:14 pm
Featured Image I have not previously witnessed a communications blackout in Iran of this magnitude — not during earlier protest waves, nor during Israel’s confrontation with Iran. What little imagery is emerging, primarily through state television, is highly selective: armed protesters, burning buildings, and official claims of sabotage. Combined with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s defiant address, the picture suggests that an extremely violent crackdown is either imminent or already underway.
Read in browser » ([link removed])
** Is the Saudi-UAE rivalry heading for more violence? ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Annelle Sheline on Jan 09, 2026 10:58 am
Featured Image On January 7, Saudi-backed forces established ([link removed]) control over much of the former South Yemen, including Aden, its capital, reversing gains ([link removed]) made by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in early December.
Read in browser » ([link removed])
** Nostalgia isn't strategy: Stop the Monroe revisionism and listen ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Brandan P. Buck on Jan 09, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image “[T]herefore you may rest assured that if the Nicaraguan activities were brought to light, they would furnish one of the largest scandals in the history of the country.”
Read in browser » ([link removed])
** Congress subpoenas journalist for sharing name of Venezuela op commander ([link removed])
------------------------------------------------------------
By Connor Echols on Jan 09, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image The House Oversight Committee voted to drag investigative journalist Seth Harp before Congress after he revealed the identity of a commander of Delta Force, the U.S. military special operations group that led the mission to abduct Venezuela’s president on Saturday.
Read in browser » ([link removed])
============================================================
Copyright © 2026 Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is:
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
2000 Pennsylvania Ave NW Ste 7000
Washington, DC 20006-1921
USA
Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can ** update your preferences ([link removed])
or ** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
.
