Can Europe stop Trump selling out Ukraine?
Keir Starmer’s strategy faces its biggest test.
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The phone call that halted Israel’s strikes on Iran
Also this week: Sirens in Jerusalem and an audience with Isaac Herzog.
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There won’t be a “final victory” for Iran or Israel
Washington, Tehran and Jerusalem still have choices to make about whether to strike again.
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Trump’s fragile truce
The US president insists a ceasefire is in effect, even as hostilities continue.
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Donald Trump has left Keir Starmer stranded
The Prime Minister is unable to offer either outright support or criticism of the US’s strikes on Iran.
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How Donald Trump plunged America into a blind war
Without any apparent strategy or objectives, this conflict is evolving in real time on social media.
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Britain wants no part in Israel’s war
Polls show the public think more like Neville Chamberlain than Donald Trump when it comes to conflict.
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The British left will not follow Trump into war
Should Keir Starmer back these strikes, he risks splitting his entire political movement.
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Will Iran inflict oil inflation on the West?
The country has little to lose by restricting shipping and triggering an energy price shock.
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Will Iran surrender?
Israel’s assault has transformed the balance of power in the Middle East.
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Is Trump the last neoconservative?
Maga was meant to fix America. But Israel’s war risks dragging it back into the Middle East.
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The world is finally turning against the war on Gaza
It is still too little, but it is not too late.
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I am once again woken up by the unpleasant buzzing of Russian drones
Also this week: Volodymyr Zelensky’s purchasing power and cross-pollination warfare.
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Not in my name
British Jews are not a monolith but there are many who want the senseless killing in Gaza to end.
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Curzio Malaparte, the Proust of violence
The Italian writer was drawn to fascism – but became an unsparing chronicler of the carnage of war.
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The war to end all peace
Neither diplomacy nor military conquest can resolve the Middle East’s deepest conflict.
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Putin’s Trump dilemma
Will the Russian leader accept the US-backed ceasefire deal with Ukraine?
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Europe alone cannot rescue President Zelensky
Keir Starmer is leading the continent in the right direction. But peace in Ukraine cannot be guaranteed without the US.
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The precarity of the Gaza ceasefire deal
Even if the next phase of the agreement commences, Israel will face tough choices.
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Despite three years of war, Ukrainians do not despair
Also this week: Pills in Poland and a new way of measuring political absurdity.
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