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President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, June 30, 2019.
Alliance mismanagement
Donald Trump further undermines trust in American alliances
America’s president derails military exercises with South Korea
A US-made F-35 fighter aircraft of the Royal Norwegian Air Force taxies to its hangar after landing at Evenes Airbase, near Narvik on March 11, 2026, as NATO conducts its Cold Response military exercise.
US and them
America Inc has a tight grip on allied governments
Companies from Palantir to Lockheed account for a small share of spending, but are hard to shake
Settlers and IDF soldiers near the village of Qusra, West Bank
The West Bank
Violent Israeli settlers want to provoke a Palestinian uprising
They are operating with the tacit support of Israel’s government
A demonstrator holds a banner with an AI image depicting Alice Weidel and Friedrich Merz kissing at an demonstration in Berlin
Burning down the house
How the anti-AfD firewall broke German politics
A policy designed to keep the far right from office has ended up strengthening it