DOHA / WASHINGTON / GAZA – The ceasefire was never meant to last this long without a breakthrough. When the January 19, 2025 agreement between Israel and Hamas took hold brokered through weeks of grueling negotiations in Doha with Qatar and Egypt as lead mediators and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff as the critical American…
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Viktor Orbán’s stunning election defeat hands Trump and Putin a geopolitical loss and hands the EU a historic opening. But Peter Magyar’s Hungary will be more complicated than Brussels is celebrating. It was, in retrospect, a remarkable alignment of interests. The President of the United States and the President of Russia rarely back the same…
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The ink on the US-Iran ceasefire was barely dry when the bombs started falling on Beirut. Within hours of Trump’s April 7 Truth Social post declaring a two-week truce, Israeli Air Force jets launched what the Israeli military described as its largest coordinated strike of the war hitting more than 100 Hezbollah targets within 10…
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For 47 years, Iran held the only keys to the world’s most critical oil chokepoint. One war, one ceasefire, and one Truth Social post later Trump has a copy. The question is what he does with them. WASHINGTON -The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide at its narrowest point. Through it flows 20 million…
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On the morning of April 5, 2026, Donald Trump posted a characteristically blunt warning on Truth Social: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.” Forty-eight hours later, the war paused. A…