Unless Trump is persuaded to return to the negotiating table, this cycle of violence is bound to persist.
While one can go to war alone, returning in the same manner is impossible unless a knockout blow is achieved.
So, is Berlin now at war with Moscow?
[A] year after Alaska, there is no sign of peace.
Saving NATO in the age of Trump was on the minds of everyone in Ankara, but of course it was not discussed.
[I]t is [U.S.] prestige that has suffered the more profound and unquantifiable injury.
Is humanity marching backward, or is it falling down into the nuclear abyss?
[T]he United States had itself rendered that alliance network more fragile.
Every world leader knows what’s going on: America is losing its grip on global power.
China is the superpower that holds a key that Western capitals do not possess.