Iceland's vote in August is genuinely uncertain. The fishing question will dominate the campaign, but the deeper issue is whether Iceland’s 400,000 citizens want to trade some degree of sovereignty for security in a moment when the traditional guarantor of that security is making territorial threats against their neighbor.

France's nuclear expansion marks a turning point in European security. As Trump's NATO skepticism leaves Europe without a credible American guarantee, Emmanuel Macron is deploying French nuclear assets across eight allied nations and building the institutional framework for a European defense architecture independent of Washington. This is what strategic autonomy looks like in practice.

British Prime Minister, Kier Starmer As I sit here wallowing in round two of whatever 5-alarm man-cold I have, I’ve been wondering, “Who’s been having a worse few weeks?” Trump’s certainly on the list, with his attack on Senator Kelly getting rejected, failing to indict Senators Kelly and Slotkin over their comments on following unlawful orders, winding down operations in Minneapolis, the House’s rebuke on tariffs on Canadian goods, or his favorite pollster finding that peopl