Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, President Putin has insisted that an end to the war could only occur if the “root causes” of the conflict were addressed. He further argued that Moscow viewed these as non-negotiable and had to be dealt with if a stable peace was to be achieved. Putin has been very consistent with these demands, and they have been frequently echoed by his Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Presidential Press Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya, and other Russian officials…

The motorcade of Donald Trump’s nuclear envoy, Steve Witkoff, was delayed on the way to the Omani ambassador’s residence in Rome, where the United States was set to begin negotiations with Iran. His car missed the driveway, backed into a tight street, before it had to circle around again. As far as metaphors go, it was almost too perfect. This is Trump’s Iran policy in 2025: hurried, high-stakes, and dangerously imprecise…

In just over 60 days, President Donald Trump’s new administration has released a seismic shock on the foundations of American foreign and defense policy. What had once seemed unshakable pillars – NATO solidarity, transatlantic security commitments, nuclear non-proliferation policies, and trusted intelligence alliances – are now in visible disarray. While the immediate shifts have made headlines, second-order consequences are quietly but profoundly reshaping the geopolitical order. Nowhere are these reverberations more visible than in Europe, where decades of strategic assumptions are being rapidly overturned…