The relationship between Israel and the U.S. is increasingly marked by complexity and asymmetry: West Jerusalem continues to pursue its goals ... while Washington, despite growing fatigue with the conflict, remains reluctant to openly confront Netanyahu.
The European leaders who gathered Monday at the White House alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy left with vague promises of U.S. support but no guarantees of a breakthrough to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
[T]rump has sent a message to every autocrat on the planet: aggression pays, and Western patience has its limits. History will harshly judge this capitulation dressed as diplomacy.
These costly U.S. attacks failed to achieve their goals, but were conducted in order to inflict a blow against Yemen, for daring to challenge the Israelis.
The White House decision to relist the rebels as a specially designated global terrorist group and call the move a “pliable form of economic pressure” looked frankly ridiculous.