Unpacked

Iran played its hand poorly leading up to Israel’s offensive by dragging out nuclear negotiations with Trump, providing Netanyahu with an opportunity.

Arming Palestinian clans in Gaza will only sow further chaos — and delay any chance of a two-state solution.

Will the counterassault amount to much more than an operationally notable air raid — albeit one that’s deeply embarrassing for the Kremlin?

Could this be the moment Trump finally concedes that Putin has no serious interest in negotiating an end to the war he started three years ago? 

For the U.S. president, Gaza is a sideshow, and he doesn’t want it disrupting his bigger diplomatic agenda of resets and mega deals.

The U.S. leader inadvertently supplied Canada’s Carney and Australia’s Albanese with easy narratives to offer their voters.

Without U.S. security guarantees and a firm “porcupine strategy” to make sure Kyiv is heavily armed, this deal will just be a way station in Putin’s bid to subjugate the country.

The venomous reactions to the pope’s passing are no surprise, but it’s ironic that MAGA is marching in lockstep with the Vatican’s cloistered and rigidly doctrinaire insiders.

The strike on Sumy wasn’t an error, aberration or mishap. It fits into Russia’s long-established tactics — and Washington knows that.

Overall prices and mortgage rates will inevitably rise because of the president’s tariff imposition. And when they do, maybe then his MAGA base will start to erode.

U.S. president’s continuous economic brinkmanship and bullying is presenting sharp dilemmas across the pond.

The U.S. president doesn’t see the benefit in helping allies — and it’s visible in the deal he’s trying to foist on Ukraine.

Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv.

The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border

The U.S. president has single-handedly pushed Kyiv into its most perilous time since Russia’s all-out invasion began.

After the surreal Oval Office brawl, strenuous efforts are under way to try to repair some of the damage.

Vastly differing views of the Russian leader’s geopolitical ambitions are fueling the transatlantic divide.

Holding elections while fighting an existential war would needlessly imperil Ukrainian cohesion — and the Kremlin would have a field day.

Zelenskyy has tested a variety of tactics to try and manage the U.S. president — but nothing seems to be working.

At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a satrap of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course — and it must decide quickly.

“We’ve now got an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” one diplomat said.

How should one handle the 47th U.S. president? Kiss the ring, resist, offer deals and wait for exhaustion to set in.

U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab leaders to accept that blackmail.