Without clear international rules for using the lunar surface's resources, there is concern about a first-come, first-served competitive struggle.

Trump ... stated that he would personally travel to Pakistan to sign the agreement if the talks were successful.

[T]his attack is not merely a simple instance of gun violence; it goes on to show how the country is undergoing one of its worst phases in recent times, signaling deep-running turmoil.

The New York Times diagnosed the Trump administration as suffering from severe 'pope derangement syndrome.'

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.