The Guardian View on the G-7’s Great Game: Taliban Rules in Kabul

Trump's unfiltered megalomania has become a spectacular act of self-sabotage.

European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.

Here was the American president ... deciding to go to war on a gut feeling and with no visible concern for what it would mean beyond [U.S.] borders.

The shift now underway is unlikely to take the form of a dramatic collapse of American power in the Gulf. It is more likely to be subtler and, for the region, more unsettling.

Israel must reduce its military dependence on the United States as much as possible and deepen its technological, military and moral value in American eyes.