Leslie Vinjamuri joins Westminster Hour to unpack the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war, Trump's meeting with Putin, and Europe's role in future negotiations.
Although the atomic bomb hasn't been used in war since it was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of its future use can never be ruled out, Paul Poast writes.
"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.
"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.
"So long as ocean traffic remains vital to the global economy, the command of the seas, or at least the ability to project interests on and across them, will remain a key pursuit of major powers," Paul Poast 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.
