Matthew Kroenig is a columnist at Foreign Policy and vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. His latest book, with Dan Negrea, is We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War.
The defaced portraits of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hang above an entrance to a building, reportedly used by the Russian Army, in the Syrian town of Al-Bassah in the Latakia province on Dec. 12.
Protesters wave a Palestinian flag as people gather to watch U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speak on the Ellipse, just south of the White House in Washington on Oct. 29.
A banner depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is placed next to a ballistic missile in Baharestan Square in Tehran on Sept. 26, 2024.
People watch the ABC News presidential debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former U.S. President Donald Trump at a debate watch party on Sept. 10, in West Hollywood, California.
A handout photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then-U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (C), Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (3rd L), Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (2nd L) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) attend the 18th East Asia Summit during the 43rd ASEAN Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 7, 2023.
In this handout image released by the South Korean Defense Ministry, South Korean Navy's destroyer Yulgok Yi I (R) U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (C) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Umigiri, (L) sail in formation during a joint naval exercise in international waters off South Korea's southern island of Jeju on Apr. 4, 2023
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) after officially accepting the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominations on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
