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Ankara’s Summit of Fractures

The NATO summit in Ankara was advertised as a moment of unity. Instead, it laid bare the alliance’s fractures and hollow rituals: a U.S. president openly antagonistic toward Europe, a gaping missile-defence deficit, and a Turkey that has become indispensable.

Ricardo Martins

Ankara's Bargain: Why Trump's F-35 Gambit Is Bigger Than a Plane

Donald Trump has just offered Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a stealth fighter jet that Israel doesn’t want him to have, Congress hasn’t cleared him to sell, and Gulf capitals are already using it as leverage against Washington itself.

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The Reflecting Pool and the Politics of Algae

Some nations govern through policy, others through spectacle, but some eventually become trapped in their own mythology.

Phil Butler