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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has made no small effort to adapt the alliance summit in The Hague to the special style of governance of US President Donald Trump. All US allies have already seen this. This includes the occasional relativization of alliance commitments and unpredictable customs policy.

The Middle East drama is entering its next act. US President Donald Trump has given the green light to an American air strike on key Iranian nuclear facilities. Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. According to Trump, they were to be completely destroyed. The Iranians confirmed the attacks, but whether the damage was of such a magnitude that it would...

This year's summit of the most powerful Western countries, the G7, in Alberta, Canada, was marked by the conflict between Israel and Iran. Because of this, US President Donald Trump left it prematurely. The leaders of Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Japan were orphaned. The debate about the war in Ukraine and perhaps even about US...

The summit of the most economically powerful countries of the West, the G7, which began in Alberta, Canada, on Sunday, was supposed to be dominated by Russia's war against Ukraine and US President Donald Trump's tariff war against trading partners. Instead, the conclave of Western leaders had to focus mainly on the escalation of the conflict...

The Israeli attack on Iran is the third action to eliminate the nuclear ambitions of its Middle Eastern enemies. In 1981, the Israeli Air Force destroyed the nuclear reactor in Osirak, Iraq, and eighteen years ago, the construction of a nuclear facility in Syria.

US President Donald Trump's style of governance has turned voters away from his supporters in a number of elections around the world. Canada voted for Prime Minister Mark Carney, due to opposition to Trump's tusks and intention to annex the country to the US. Tariffs helped Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese win.
Romania elected...

Last week, the European Union adopted the seventeenth package of sanctions against Russia. It targets almost two hundred vessels of the Russian shadow fleet, hybrid threats and respect for human rights.

After nineteen months of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by the brutal terrorist attack by the Palestinian Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, there is no end in sight. Hopes that the latest ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will result in some kind of peaceful solution have faded. The new Israeli offensive aims to "take control of...

The British weekly The Economist wrote after Friday's Ukrainian-Russian talks in Istanbul on the possibilities of ending the war that the intensity of public diplomacy suggests serious negotiations behind the scenes and that the coming days may prove decisive for a more fundamental shift. It added that US President Donald Trump is the focus of all...