GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The day unfolds along a single thread, and it’s worth pulling on it directly because it’s the one I’ve been describing for months: the lack of leadership—the absence, where it’s most needed, of an authority capable of making decisions and, above all, of guaranteeing those decisions—remains the underlying malady of our time.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
Today’s events, which we analyze with unusual clarity, encapsulate the two major pathologies of the international order that I have been describing for months: the absence of legitimate authority where it is most needed and the deliberate erosion of certainties where they were hardest to build.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
Three assassinations and a narrow strait explain the day’s events, and it’s best to state it bluntly, because therein lies the key to what I’ve been describing.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
Today’s events revolve around a single question: who is truly in charge when leadership is most needed?