Geopolitics

Hungary’s new PM threatens to oust Orbán-era president — a constitutional clash with EU consequences Péter Magyar won a landslide to end 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule. Now he is trying to remove Tamás Sulyok, the president installed by the old regime — and Sulyok is refusing to […]

Trump halts $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund amid bipartisan backlash The president’s plan to pay $1.8 billion to victims of ‘government weaponization’ lasted less than two weeks. Democrats called it a slush fund. Republicans called it a political liability. Even a federal judge weighed in. WASHINGTON — On June 1, President […]

One Day That Broke the Middle East: The June 1 Cascade In the span of 24 hours, Israel ordered strikes on Beirut, Hezbollah offered a reciprocal ceasefire, Iran walked away from talks with Washington, and the American president claimed a deal with a terrorist group he refuses to name. No one stopped fighting. On June […]

European navies are no longer just watching the shadow fleet. They are stopping it. The French navy detained a Russian oil tanker in the Atlantic on Sunday, with British support, in what is the first publicly acknowledged joint operation between the two countries targeting the so-called shadow fleet. It marks a shift from passive tracking […]

NATO’s Below-Water Blind Spot: Why the Alliance Is Racing to Protect the Seabed — and Why It Started Too Late The Nord Stream pipelines were blown up on September 26, 2022. Three of four lines destroyed in coordinated explosions on the Baltic seabed. The largest single release of methane in recorded history. And for nearly […]

Nine and Counting: Norway Joins the French Nuclear Umbrella as Europe Breaks With the American Guarantee Nine European countries have now signed up to French nuclear deterrence in under three months. This is not a series of bilateral agreements — it is the systematic construction of a European nuclear […]

The Peace That Wasn’t: US Bombs Iranian Territory as Kuwait Comes Under Fire The ceasefire in the Iran war has been violated for the third time. US warplanes struck Iranian radar and drone command sites on Qeshm Island and in the city of Goruk over the weekend. Hours later, Kuwait was under missile and drone […]

The Deal That Will Not Stay Written: Trump’s Third Round of Edits to the Iran Framework Bombs fall on Iranian soil while negotiators argue over paragraphs. The gap between what is said and what is done grows wider every day. It is the first day of June 2026. American warplanes have spent the weekend striking […]

Europe’s Strongest Condemnation Yet: France, UK, Germany Push Back as Israel Deepens Lebanon Incursion France has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting after Israeli forces captured the medieval Beaufort Castle and Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push deeper into Lebanon — the most forceful European response since the war began. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, did […]

The Navy That Outgrew the Strait For years, the argument about China’s navy followed a simple shape. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) existed to intimidate Taiwan. Its ships stayed inside the First Island Chain. Its exercises were about a single piece of geography: the Taiwan Strait. That description is no longer true. In May […]