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.
One of the cardinal mistakes made by the U.S. administration was to conclude the summit in Anchorage with no mention of a desperately needed ceasefire agreement.
[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.
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.