Diplomacy

Should diplomacy collapse, Washington and Jerusalem would be positioned to justify military action against Iran as a last resort.

Brink did not have an easy job—serving as the link between the United States and Ukraine at a time of profound difficulty for the latter country.

Ukraine’s security future must be integrated into Europe’s, and squarely into the process of refashioning the U.S.-Russian relationship.

If Trump can channel Eisenhower on Ukraine, he will be able to claim that he has achieved the peace “deal of the century.”

Turkey sees the conflict as a test case for its ability to act independently of both Russia and the West while shaping major geopolitical outcomes. On the chessboard of Middle...

Under the terms of the preliminary agreement, Ukraine and Russia will stop targeting each other’s energy infrastructure—but it remains to be seen if either side will follow through.

U.S. embassies are indispensable and should be maintained wherever possible, but intelligently focused trimming is still possible. The Department of State is determining how to reduce American diplomatic and consular...

There are good reasons to anticipate evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, change to NATO and European defense. The Trump administration’s decision to press for improved relations with Russia, along with the...

In less than two months in office, Trump may have created the conditions to derail a China-Russia power bloc against the United States. On Tuesday, U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators reached...

The last publicly-known contact between senior Chinese and U.S. military officials was in September 2024.

The greatest challenge will be ensuring that Russia does not renew its appetite for swallowing the remainder of Ukraine at the first opportunity. Donald Trump as a presidential candidate in...

President Donald Trump has thrown another curveball into global politics, seemingly reversing course on Ukraine negotiations and threatening new sanctions on Russia in a Truth Social post—just as he hints...