Marc Champion

Last week, ambassadors from the so-called E3 — France, Germany and the UK — made a rare visit to Moscow to discuss ending its invasion of Ukraine. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s pugnacious foreign minister, didn’t deign to receive them; his deputy instead lectured them with “an objective assessment of the destructive policies of the West.”

European ambassadors' visit to Moscow to discuss ending the Ukraine invasion proved futile, highlighting Europe's geopolitical challenges. While Europe is a participant, it must be involved in negotiating an end to the conflict and finding Russia's place in the European security architecture. This requires Europe to first define its approach to Russia's legitimate interests.

A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the first US president to have made peace with Iran since the country’s 1979 revolution. That’s wrong. He is the first to have taken America to war with Iran, and therefore the first to have needed a truce to stop one. The peace his predecessors sought and failed to achieve has yet to come.

A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the first U.S. president to have made

None of this would be cause for criticism if the decision to attack the Islamic Republic were to leave the U.S. in a substantially better negotiating position than it enjoyed before the start of hostilities.

A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the first U.S. president to have made peace with Iran since the country

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Israel, according to JD Vance, is having a “freakout” over his Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. Of course it is, and that isn’t even remotely “odd,” as he suggests. Israelis are dismayed because the deal he negotiated over their heads feels like a betrayal and has forced them to confront a brutal dilemma: Should they abandon what they perceive as core security goals, or should they alienate an existentially important ally?

Shortly before Russia re-invaded Ukraine more than four years ago, I went to Mariupol to get a sense of what the response would be and met Ruslan Pustovoit, call sign “Spider,” who was organizing a volunteer defense force for the Ukrainian city. He kept a copy of a World War II Nazi SS officer’s hat on his wall.