Geopolitics

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 […]

Russia’s Fuel Crisis Deepens as Ukrainian Drone Strikes Strangle Crimea Supply Lines Russia is facing one of its worst domestic fuel crises in years as a sustained Ukrainian drone campaign against oil refineries, supply routes, and infrastructure in occupied territories disrupts the flow of gasoline and diesel to Russian consumers. The shortages are most acute […]

Estonia will begin construction of a permanent military base in the border city of Narva later this year, Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur announced Tuesday, as the Baltic state continues building defensive infrastructure on its frontier with Russia. The base, located in Estonia’s third-largest city at the northeastern edge of both EU and NATO territory, will […]

The United States launched new military strikes on Iran late Tuesday in retaliation for the shooting down of an American Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, while an unmanned Navy drone boat carried out the first known combat rescue of its kind to save the two crew members. The sequence of events, unfolding over […]

The world is more violent than at any point since 1945. The numbers are not ambiguous. A new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), drawing on figures from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at Uppsala University, has documented 65 state-based armed conflicts in 2025, the highest number recorded in a single year since […]

Japan is rebalancing its defense posture in ways that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The shift is measured, deliberate and driven by a cold reading of regional realities: China’s military buildup, North Korea’s deepening ties with Russia, and a United States consumed by wars in the Middle East and Europe. The direction of […]

Donald Trump warned Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could find itself fighting Iran without American support if it keeps escalating, marking the most public rift between the two leaders since the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran began in February. “I said, ‘Bibi, you better be careful, or you will be on your own very soon,'” Trump told […]

Trump tells Israel’s leader he may be left to fight Iran alone. Donald Trump warned Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel could find itself fighting Iran without American support if it keeps escalating, marking the most public rift between the two leaders since the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran began in February. “I said, ‘Bibi, you better be […]

Both sides say they will pause but warn of more if the other moves first. Israel and Iran have each announced they are halting strikes against the other, ending, at least for now, the first direct exchange of fire between the two countries since April’s ceasefire collapsed. But no one is calling it peace. The […]

Europe’s most ambitious defense program collapses as national industrial interests trump shared vision France and Germany formally abandoned the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) on Monday, scrapping a joint program worth over 100 billion euros ($115 billion) that was meant to produce Europe’s next-generation fighter jet by 2040 and replace the continent’s aging fleets of […]