Brussels spent a week celebrating the end of Viktor Orbán. Then Bulgaria elected a prime minister who controls Europe's only Russian gas pipeline, hosts American bombers 200 miles from Crimea, and has already called the Ukraine security deal his predecessor signed a risk to national security. Moscow
On April 17, Iran did the one thing Washington had demanded as the price of peace. It opened the Strait of Hormuz. Within 24 hours, it closed it again. Not
The US-Israel war on Iran has done what four years of Russian bombardment could not. It has pushed Ukraine off the table. Not with a decision. Not with a declaration. With something quieter and more consequential: a change in what Washington considers urgent.
A Polish lawmaker held up an Israeli flag defaced with a Nazi symbol inside parliament. Not online. Not anonymous. Inside the chamber. It was Holocaust Remembrance Day. At Auschwitz, survivors
China has renamed 23 places in Arunachal Pradesh it does not control. Again.
On April 10, Beijing's Ministry of Civil Affairs published its sixth list of what it
On Sunday night, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, robed in white, hand glowing, healing a man in a hospital bed, American flags and bald eagles filling the sky around him. He did this one hour after calling the Pope weak. One name sits at the intersection of ever
The failure of the Islamabad talks has been framed, almost universally, as Iran's refusal to accept a reasonable offer. That framing deserves scrutiny.
Iran's Supreme National Security Council accepted the ceasefire on Wednesday with a statement that was, in its honesty, more revealing than any diplomatic communiqué. 'This does not
Israel did not violate the ceasefire. It revealed what it was. Within hours of Pakistan announcing a truce ‘effective immediately everywhere’, Beirut was hit again. By morning, more than 100 targets had been struck. The clarification came later, almost casually. Lebanon was never part of the deal. T
Nobody won. That is the first thing to understand about the ceasefire that came into force Tuesday night, brokered by Pakistan and announced by Donald Trump on Truth Social in
'Our patience has reached its limit,' Khawaja Asif, Pakistan’s Defence Minister said in a social media post on February 27, 2026, declaring what he called an '
The loudest challenge to American foreign policy is American. In most of the world, that would be called a luxury. In the United States, it is called Tuesday.
