It is unlikely that the CIA director just came all that way on a specialized cargo aircraft to say “we give up”, but perhaps that was the essence of the discussions.
Leaders are not irrelevant: they determine the timing and form of détente.
Peace, for now, has not drawn any closer. Instead, it has become clear who is holding the stopwatch.
Farage can’t take the heat of his own political scandals and is likely to leave politics once the parliamentary investigations are over.
Will the winners be willing to keep their pre-election promises and not join the ranks of election winners who regularly disappoint their voters?
Biden-era “removals” were a revolving door at the Rio Grande. Trump closed the door. Crossings collapsed.
The infrastructure of the multipolar world is not only physical but also, and increasingly, digital.
Trump’s losing the Iran war – and now the nuclear option is being normalized.
