Geopolitics & international affairs
Putin is not at the G7 summit in Canada this week. He does not need to be. Through direct phone calls with Donald Trump, a relentless BRICS economic counter-narrative, and the spectacle of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kremlin is running an influence operation from outside the room that European leaders say is […]
Two strategic bomber crashes in 48 hours. On the same day, June 15, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed on takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California, killing all eight crew members aboard. Thousands of miles away in Siberia, a Russian Tu-22M3 Backfire went down near Svirsk in the Irkutsk region during a […]
The constitutional amendment Viktor Orban never expected his supermajority to pass. On June 15, 2026, Hungary’s parliament approved the 16th amendment to the constitution, barring any person from serving more than eight years as prime minister. The provision is retroactive to May 2, 1990. Viktor Orban has served more than 16 years cumulatively since 1998, […]
For the first time in centuries, the United States may rely on foreign shipyards to build its warships. The US Navy is considering an unprecedented step: procuring major naval vessels from allied shipbuilders in Japan and South Korea. The Navy’s May 2026 Shipbuilding Plan requests legislative changes in the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act to […]
Taiwanese are growing increasingly anxious that their island’s interests may be sacrificed as Washington and Beijing stabilize their relationship after the May 2026 Trump-Xi summit in Beijing. When Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing last month, it was meant to reset a bilateral relationship battered by two years of tariff warfare and […]
Netanyahu declares victory over Iran and rules out Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, directly challenging Trump’s peace push at the G7 summit. JERUSALEM. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “historic victory” over Iran on Monday and ruled out any immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon, Gaza, or Syria, directly undercutting the U.S.-Iran ceasefire deal […]
President Trump’s latest tariff strategy, announced June 2 under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, uses forced labor allegations to achieve what the Supreme Court took away from him: a broad wall of tariffs around the American economy. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on February 20 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act […]
After 21 years without a presidential vote, Mahmoud Abbas has decreed elections for early 2027, but the timing, the electoral rule changes, and his silence on his own candidacy have fueled deep skepticism across Palestinian factions and civil society. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 90, issued a presidential decree on June 14 calling for presidential […]
G7 opens in Évian as Macron scrambles to hold the center against transatlantic storms EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — The 52nd Group of Seven summit opened Monday on the shores of Lake Geneva under a cloud of violent anti-globalization protests and deepening fractures between the United States and its traditional allies, with host President Emmanuel Macron facing […]
Moscow’s missile strike on the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex was not a random act of war. It was a deliberate signal aimed directly at Europe as the continent finally begins to tighten the screws on Russia’s war machine. At least 11 people are dead after a Russian overnight barrage of missiles and drones […]
