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The escalating Russian aggression in Ukraine should serve as a vivid reminder of the global threat posed not only by Moscow but also by any countries that seek to align themselves with Putin for the sake of undermining Western interests and challenging the existing world order. While the United States, Britain, and the European Union develop their strategies for averting war while also pressuring Russia to withdraw forces from Donetsk and Luhansk, they must not lose sight of the fact that other Russian forces recently coordinated with Iran and China for naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, thus signaling the...

Iran's foreign minister might be lying, but Kerry’s record of appeasement, closeness to Zarif, and disdain for Israel give reason to think otherwise.Maybe we should be giving John Kerry the benefit of the doubt. After all, why wouldn’t Americans take the word of a former secretary of state over that of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, an official of a country that is an open adversary of the United States? Since the history of American negotiations with Iran largely consists of lies told by the mouthpieces of the Islamist regime, there’s good reason to be skeptical of anything that comes...