Geopolitics & international affairs
Can Anyone Trust What Trump Says About Iran? On June 11, 2026, President Donald Trump simultaneously announced a peace deal with Iran was imminent, threatened to seize the country’s main oil terminal, watched three Indian seafarers die under US fire, and was told by the World Bank that this war is dragging the global economy […]
Hungary and Ukraine strike historic deal on minority rights, clearing path for EU accession talks Hungary and Ukraine have reached an agreement on the rights of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine, Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced this week. The deal ends a decade of hostility between Budapest and Kyiv and removes the last major […]
Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz, Strikes US Bases as War Escalates Across the Gulf From the Gulf to the gas pump: how Iran’s war is reshaping the Middle East and the American economy On June 10, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping. On the same day, it fired missiles at US bases […]
Drone Incursions Rattle NATO’s Baltic States as Ukraine War Spills Across Borders Drone incursions into NATO airspace put Baltic states on edge as Ukraine war spills across borders A series of drone incursions into the airspace of NATO’s Baltic members has pushed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the brink of a new security reality: the […]
OpenAI Catches China Using ChatGPT to Manipulate American Opinion on AI and Trade OpenAI catches China using ChatGPT to manipulate American opinion on AI and trade policy China-backed operatives used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to shape US public debate on data centers, AI infrastructure, and tariff policy, the company disclosed this week. The campaign is a new […]
Netanyahu Confirms He Will Run in Israel’s October Election Netanyahu confirms he will stand in Israel’s October election, pushing back against US doubts about his political future Benjamin Netanyahu plans to run again. His Likud party confirmed on Wednesday that Israel’s longest-serving prime minister will stand in the national election scheduled for October 2026, ending […]
France Seizes Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker Off Brest Coast A French naval boarding party, assisted by British forces, seized a Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Atlantic Ocean last week and arrested its captain, marking the second major interception this year as Paris enforces increasingly aggressive maritime sanctions against Moscow’s oil trade. BREST. The French […]
EU Proposes Entry Ban on All Russian Soldiers Who Served Since Invasion For the first time since the full-scale invasion began, the European Union has proposed closing its borders to every Russian who has worn a uniform in that war, a move that transforms economic sanctions into a sweeping human barrier of unprecedented scope. BRUSSELS. […]
Taiwan Fires HIMARS From West Coast in First Live-Fire Drill Facing China For the first time, Taiwan fired U.S.-supplied HIMARS rockets from its west coast into the Taiwan Strait, a live-fire demonstration of the asymmetric “porcupine” defense strategy aimed at making any Chinese invasion prohibitively costly. TAICHUNG. The rumble started just after sunrise on June […]
Only 11 Percent of Europeans Now See the U.S. as an Ally, ECFR Survey Finds Only one in 10 Europeans across 15 countries now see the United States as an ally, according to a new survey published Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations. The figure — 11 percent — is a historic low […]
