Israel is preparing for its first national election since the October 7 attacks. RAND's Shira Efron explains what's at stake and how the outcome could change Israel's approach to Gaza and the West Bank.
"As long as each provocation costs Moscow nothing more than a downed drone, Putin has every reason to keep escalating," Council Distinguished Nonresident Fellow in Defense and Security Julianne Smith writes.
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Julianne Smith, Deborah Rosenblum, and Ariane Tabatabai discuss how the US-Denmark-Greenland agreement will impact US force posture, intra-NATO tensions, and Trump’s push to acquire Greenland.
"Trump is clearly interested in pursuing a good relationship with President Xi," Council Director of Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Craig Kafura tells NewsNation. "Now it's up to the working levels to see if they can make some of that top-down blessing produce real fruit."
Key European leaders are sounding the alarm over Russian aggression, warning that Vladimir Putin is planning attacks aimed at testing NATO’s security alliance. Compass Points moderator Nick Schifrin discusses those concerns with the Council's Julianne Smith and other experts.
"Trump’s approach to China lacks coherence, consistency, and consensus within his administration on what strategy and policies to follow," Council Senior Nonresident Fellow Paul Heer writes.
“India’s aspiration is to set it up as being not about the West but not opposed to the West," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri tells BBC Weekend.
"The administration gutted the country’s institutions, and the United States is left trying to bargain for an outcome worse than the prewar status quo," Council Vice President of Research for Security and Defense Ariane Tabatabai and Julia Curlee write.
"Europe needs a public diplomacy campaign, and the target of that campaign needs to be the American public," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri says.
