What happened to this performing arts center is paradigmatic of how Trump’s second presidency ... [is] another front in a war ... to impose an autocratic regime led by a 21st century feudal lord outside of international law.
[W]e have yet to see which narrative will prevail: Trump’s effort to change the map of the world or the combined efforts of the other nations to bring Trump’s authoritarian impulse to heel and bring about a functioning multipolar world.
Washington now faces choices: proceed with the deal and adjust its conception of alliances in the region or succumb to legislative stagnation and reject or downgrade the deal.