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Zelensky on Gilligan’s Island March 04, 2025

In the 1960’s television series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan was always telling rivals they were both right. The joke was the impossibility of that outcome. By contrast, in the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown, both are right. And wrong.As often is true with ...

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Russia

Trump administration

A National Security Disaster in the Oval Office March 04, 2025

ANYONE WHO EXPECTED DONALD TRUMP’S foreign policy in his second term to look essentially like his foreign policy in his first term must have been shocked over the past few days....

Russia

Ukraine

If Ukraine Deal Wasn’t Perilous Before, It Is Now March 04, 2025

The spectacle of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly dressing down Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Oval Office is a sad chapter in the annals of American diplomacy. It’s only one of a series of perplexing, sometime...

Ukraine

The First Contours of the Trump World Order March 04, 2025

Friday’s Oval Office meeting between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was unprecedented, and not in a good way, for the United States, Ukraine, Europe’s future, and America’s global credi...

Ukraine

Russia

Trump’s Reverse-Nixon Maneuver March 04, 2025

As the world reels from the scenes of the televised boxing match between Zelensky and Trump, with Vance egging the fight on, we are in danger of losing sight of what the encounter reveals about Trump’s priorities....

Donald Trump

Trump, Vance Shake Europe Awake From Liberal Dream March 03, 2025

It will take more shocks like the one Trump and Vance delivered from the Oval Office to wake Europe’s leaders up from their dream, which has become a nightmare for so many ordinary Europeans. ...

Donald Trump

Ukraine

Europe’s Moment of Truth March 03, 2025

The disastrous meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on February 28 has led to a stark moment of truth for the Western alliance. ...

Europe

Can Ukraine-U.S. Relations Be Repaired? March 03, 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy veered dangerously off-script last week, thanks, in large part, to goading by U.S. Vice President JD Vance....

Ukraine

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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European Union

Play Your Cards Right March 03, 2025

Washington isn’t Las Vegas, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the nation’s capital last week to throw the dice, to gamble that he could win unlimited funds, weapons, and, yes, even American troops. He played and lost. Zelensky woul...

Vance v. Ferguson, Trump Diplomacy, DOGE, and Hackman March 01, 2025

Trump administration

Europe’s Free Ride Comes to an End March 01, 2025

Having been shocked by Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s negotiations with Russia, the great and the good in Europe are descending on Washington to understand what the Trump admi...

Trump administration

Europe Defends Zelensky After Trump Attack March 01, 2025

France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin. ...

Ukraine

The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky March 01, 2025

Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What, a...

Ukraine

Trump Takes on the Blob in the Oval Office March 01, 2025

The meeting between Trump Vance and Zelensky is a great clarifying moment, the first time president Trump or any president has, in a dramatic way, said no to the Washington establishment consensus in foreign policy, or, more informally, the blob. ...

Donald Trump

Trump, Vance, and the New New World Order March 01, 2025

The postwar order built on Roosevelt’s naive trust in Stalin and sustained by America’s costly global interventions now teeters on the edge of irrelevance. ...

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