"Even in areas where the administration has not cut staff to the bone, the shallow state is implementing Trump’s preferred policies in a shallow manner," Daniel Drezner argues.
"Americans place most of the blame for the Russia-Ukraine conflict on Putin rather than Zelenskyy," Dina Smeltz says, pointing to recent Council-Ipsos polling.
The Trump administration got a relatively easy win in deescalating the India-Pakistan conflict. It's not doing so well in Gaza and Ukraine, Paul Poast writes.