Unpacked

Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv.

The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border

The U.S. president has single-handedly pushed Kyiv into its most perilous time since Russia’s all-out invasion began.

After the surreal Oval Office brawl, strenuous efforts are under way to try to repair some of the damage.

Vastly differing views of the Russian leader’s geopolitical ambitions are fueling the transatlantic divide.

Holding elections while fighting an existential war would needlessly imperil Ukrainian cohesion — and the Kremlin would have a field day.

Zelenskyy has tested a variety of tactics to try and manage the U.S. president — but nothing seems to be working.

At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a satrap of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course — and it must decide quickly.

“We’ve now got an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” one diplomat said.

How should one handle the 47th U.S. president? Kiss the ring, resist, offer deals and wait for exhaustion to set in.

U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab leaders to accept that blackmail.

The U.S. president sees tariffs not just as a way to reverse trade deficits, but also as a means of reducing domestic income tax. He may find neither are likely to work according to plan.

Europe’s leaders had plenty of warnings about what the U.S. president’s second term might mean, but amid much eye-rolling, hand-wringing and wishful thinking, they failed to agree on a plan.

Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.

The Trump camp is doing its victory lap. But when the dust settles, political realities could cause problems for such a broad church.

The U.S. president-elect claiming credit for the Israel-Hamas agreement has infuriated Joe Biden and his aides, but few in the region doubt it’s true.

Syria is stepping into a new reality — but its political contours have yet to take shape.

There’s a battle among the president-elect’s loyalists over who among Europe’s right-wing populists should be trusted as allies.

Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a’s hands-off diplomacy is setting off alarm bells — as it should.

Some worry that Mandelson will see Trump 2.0 as something to be weathered rather than a revolution in U.S. politics that will have long-lasting ramifications.

The country’s fragile, post-revolutionary landscape doesn’t inspire confidence.

Aleppo’s fall has much to do with the Turkish leader’s geopolitical maneuverings — particularly his irritation with Assad for spurning a long-standing offer of reconciliation.

For good or ill, Trump is already shaping the calculations of combatants in the region, but much depends on how Hezbollah’s bosses in Tehran proceed.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak says it’s possible the new U.S. administration may enter into interconnected talks with Putin about Ukraine, Iran and the Middle East.