How Donald Trump has changed the way diplomacy is done
The rest of the world has had to learn how to manage the US president’s mercurial temperament and unique style.
The rest of the world has had to learn how to manage the US president’s mercurial temperament and unique style.
Donald Trump’s revival of a ‘roadmap’ to peace dismissed by Iran in 2025 suggests he is looking for a way out of an increasingly unwinnable war.
The UK military is considering sending interceptor drones and mine hunters to the Middle East.
The MoU signed by the US and Iranian presidents was never likely to hold.
Struck by the success of large-scale, low-cost drone attacks, the US made covert efforts to capture Iranian Shahed-136s for technical analysis.
Over neatly five decades, Tehran has threatened to close the waterway whenever faced with an international crisis.
Whether framed as liberal, neocon or realist, US foreign policy has always been about sustaining American dominance.
Donald Trump and his senior advisers have threatened to leave Nato over alliance members’ reluctance to join the war in Iran.
It’s hard to see how the US can achieve Donald Trump’s war aims.
The conflict gets more dangerous by the day.