Trump keeps the world on edge with military actions, fantasies of conquest and tariffs. Now, his latest idea: a Board of Peace that would marginalize the United Nations.

After five years, the TPNW is now signed, ratified, or acceded to by the majority of countries eligible to do so, demonstrating a global majority in favor of the most comprehensive nuclear weapons prohibition ever negotiated.

The United States military intervention in Venezuela, culminating in the capture of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026, has been framed in starkly different ways.

The ‘Trump Corollary’ is imperialist in conception and interventionist in practice

In an extraordinary act of foreign interference in a friendly country’s bilateral relations with a third country, the French, German and British envoys published an op-ed in The Times of India on Monday that was highly critical of India’s continued close relations with Russia.

China’s rising economic and conventional capabilities are now paired with expanding nuclear forces. Strategically, Washington must decide whether it is possible to avoid confronting China and Russia together, and the price to make that happen.