Lessons from the Trump-Zelenskyy Meltdown – for Friends and Foes

From an American viewpoint, Gaza is a nuisance and perhaps something that can be worked around in the broader campaign against Hamas.

[T]he Republican Party is now a coalition of religious conservatives, the social and economic right, and libertarian oligarchs. For their part, the Democrats have become a broad “tent” uniting liberals, moderates, and socialists.

U.S-China relations remain governed by a delicate balance of deterrence and cooperation[.]

[Donald Trump's] warmongering vision ... has led the U.S. to take dangerously interventionist, unilateral and aggressive stances.

[At] least a few Republicans are actually objecting to the president’s overreach. They won’t rein him in, though.

The continued silence provides the occupation with cover to persist in killing and siege.

Mamdani's socialists are not embarrassed when his election is celebrated with swastikas on synagogues, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon's socialists in France lean on Muslim antisemitism.