Trump’s threats against Russia are a charade meant to buy Putin time
Worldview: Trump basically gave Putin 50 days’ protection from new sanctions, says Phillips Payson O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland
US is again betting that installing ‘our sonuvabitch’ will neutralise an adversary. It never does
Every 20 years the US and Israel attempt to remake the Middle East - always with catastrophic consequences
Caravaggio: The ‘boozing, whoring, brawling and bisexual bad boy of baroque’
A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
Betrayed with a kiss: How Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ made its way to Ireland
For nearly 200 years the painting was misattributed to someone else
Ukrainian commander’s final dispatch: ‘I had hoped my service and sacrifices would be enough, but they haven’t’
In her final monthly column, the female commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says her country’s allies overestimate Russia’s strength and underestimate Ukraine’s
Gazans now eat one meal every two or three days as Trump plans his ‘Riviera’
In a just world, Putin, Netanyahu and their enabler, Trump, would stand trial for war crimes and the US administration’s ‘green light for genocide’
A Ukrainian commander writes: It may be extortionate, but I’d rather share our resources with US than Russia
In her latest monthly column, the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says attempts by Putin and Trump to humiliate Zelenskiy have backfired
In Trump’s America, it can be dangerous to criticise the president’s friends
Worldview: The administration has rescinded the legal status of close to 1,000 international university students since mid-March
What is the reactionary international movement, Europe’s new political force?
Though far-right parties have been on the rise for decades, Donald Trump’s election has empowered them. They are experiencing ‘a great emboldening’
I think Putin is testing Trump, to see how far he can go and how many advantages he can get
Women are underestimated everywhere in the world. There are books I’d like to write, if the war ever ends
How Putin is undermining western power through propaganda and sabotage
Worldview: A former German ambassador and head of Nato intelligence says western societies must do more to protect themselves from Russia’s hybrid warfare
Real question is why Trump wants to help Putin reverse the Soviet Union’s collapse
Women politicians best analysed the consequences of the train wreck in the Oval Office, with German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock calling it ‘a new age of ruthlessness’
‘Denys was skinny and muscular, with fair hair and blue-grey eyes. He was killed near Donetsk in February’
In the third of her monthly columns, the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit says Trump’s mineral wealth demands are ‘outrageous blackmail’
‘Zelenskiy down. Europeans out’: Why is Trump playing right into Russia’s hands on Ukraine?
One possible explanation of Trump’s behaviour is that he sees China as the US’s principal adversary and hopes to prise Russia away from its influence
‘Will the US go to war for Estonia or Latvia?’ Former French ambassador on the new world disorder
Worldview: Gérard Araud says the idea of fighting for democracy is completely alien to Trump