Washington’s new Russia sanctions give Donald Trump a powerful economic weapon, but India’s response will have to balance energy security, trade and strategic autonomy. The United States has acquired a new weapon in its economic arsenal, and it is powerful enough to hurt more than its intended target. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, signed into law by President Donald Trump on September 18, gives the White House authority to impose tariffs of up

Peter o' Toole in 'The Night of the Generals' (1967), which remains vastly underrated despite its trenchant probing of the Nazi psyche. This week marks yet another anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe. The dating of the twentieth century’s most cataclysmic war, always a matter of controversy, has definitively begun to shift in both popular and academic histories to underscore its global dimensions. In the past two decades, the war’s historiography has

From Teutonic fortresses to modern missile garrisons, the contested geography of the Baltic has made Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, a recurring European flashpoint. Russian naval and missile forces make Kaliningrad a strategic hinge on NATO’s eastern flank. In 1736, Swiss polymath and mathematician Leonhard Euler sat down to solve a quirky civic obsession that Königsberg was renowned for: how to stroll across all seven bridges of the historic capital of the East Prussian city e

France’s surprise veto with Russia and China exposes a fraying Western consensus, raising awkward questions about NATO’s future. For seven decades, the choreography of great-power diplomacy has been comfortingly predictable: when push came to shove at the United Nations, France stood with the United States and United Kingdom, balancing the habitual dissent of Russia and China. That symmetry has now been disrupted. In a jarring diplomatic turn, France recently joined Russia an