Ilan Berman

Dr. ILAN BERMAN, Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council, co-editor of “Iran’s Strategic Penetration of Latin America” and author of “Implosion: The End of Russia and What It Means for America”:

PART ONE:

• Fast and loose parameters of an Iran deal that has serious flaws regarding verification and predictability
• Administration’s broken defense of negotiating with Iranian regime
• Is a fifty-billion dollar signing bonus going to be issued to Tehran?

PART TWO:

• The Corker-Cardin bill: simply an after action report, not Congressionally-mandated oversight
• Iran's political and financial gains as it becomes “Supreme Overlord of the region”
• What the nuclear arms race in the Middle East is doing for unstable regimes seeking WMDs

PART THREE:

• Official myopia toward the Islamic State and the long war against radical Islam
• The World Almanac of Islamism
• Netanyahu's reelection and the changing U.S.-Israel relationship

PART FOUR:

• Why Russian aggression belies a weak economy and shaky demography
• What motivated Putin's invasion of Ukraine?
• Jihadists and the fundamental structural flaw of ultranationalist Russia
• Despite the pivot to Asia, China operates unopposed