"Clearly we've come a huge way since that very difficult meeting—to put it lightly—between Zelenskyy and Trump in the Oval Office many months ago," Leslie Vinjamuri says.
"it takes a lot of cooperation to stabilize a global economy and to move forward on key issues which I think the US has a genuine interest in," Leslie Vinjamuri explains.
"People understand the conversation in Washington is often very stuck in a very divided context," Leslie Vinjamuri says. "They're trying to understand a broader perspective, and we bring that."
"Even if Operation Midnight Hammer proves to be a failure, it will be a more modest and less costly failure than Operation Iraqi Freedom," Daniel Drezner writes.
As the ceasefire between Israel and Iran continues, Cécile Shea reacts to President Trump's announcement of a tentative meeting between the United States and Iran.
"Keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and keeping that region relatively calm is really important to manufacturers in Chicago and to all of us who have to pay for gas," Cécile Shea says.