Geopolitics

The memorandum of understanding requires numerous steps by Washington including lifting sanctions and freeing billions in frozen assets, while Iran was required only to open the Strait of Hormuz.

After weeks of intensifying bombing of Kyiv, Ukraine hit back with a swarm of drones, damaging buildings and igniting an oil refinery.

The United States will review force levels and is immediately cutting the number of assets it would activate for the continent in a crisis.

The outcome of a special election in the small working-class district of Makerfield has the potential to upend Labour Party leadership and U.K. politics.

How Beijing’s export strategy will keep poor countries poor.

Tehran is poised to overplay its hand.

The growing odds and seismic consequences of a Le Pen-Bardella victory.

Frustrated lawmakers are increasing pressure on the defense secretary to get answers they’ve sought for months.

Published: June 17, 2026 8:23 pm Author: Breccan F. Thies Trump should treat the U.K. like the hostile Third World country it has become until it rediscovers Western justice and...

Trump’s most consequential foreign policy mistake.