Trump–Netanyahu Talks: Iran’s Missile Programme Takes Precedence as Gaza and Lebanon Linger Iran Calls on Hezbollah to Fight While Iraq Warns al-Sharaa Against Escalation in Lebanon By Elijah J. Magnier – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States and his meetings with President Donald Trump and senior members of the administration take place against […]

By Elijah J. Magnier –  At the heart of European decision-making in Brussels, the European Union has developed a dual posture on Palestine that is increasingly irreconcilable with its own claims to principle. This contradiction is not merely rhetorical; it exposes how power is exercised when law collides with political risk. In public, EU institutions […]

By Elijah J. Magnier –  Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime minister of Greece, and Nikos Christodoulides, the president of Cyprus, for a trilateral summit between Israel, Greece and Cyprus. The meeting comes at a moment when Israel is recalibrating its regional posture ahead of a possible wider confrontation […]

By Elijah J. Magnier –  For decades, defence contractors occupied a peculiar place in equity markets. They were not growth stories, nor were they especially innovative in the Silicon Valley sense. Instead, they offered something more prosaic and reassuring: predictable government contracts, stable margins, and dividends that rarely surprised. Defence stocks were defensive in both […]

By Elijah J. Magnier – Europe ends 2025 confronting a structural economic crisis more severe than any it has faced in the post-Cold War era. At the December summit, EU leaders agreed to extend €90 billion in loans to Ukraine for 2026–27, even as Kyiv remains a war-damaged economy burdened by a fiscal deficit exceeding 20 percent of […]

By Elijah J. Magnier – It is in Israel’s strategic interest to see Lebanon internally divided, especially as it has become clear that Hezbollah cannot be disarmed through a military air campaign alone and that Lebanese diplomacy has failed to assume its responsibility to defend Lebanon’s sovereignty or halt Israel’s daily bombing. Fragmentation inside Lebanon […]

By Elijah J. Magnier – The fall of Seversk in eastern Ukraine, coming after a slow but continuous Russian advance throughout 2024 and into 2025, has reshaped the psychological and strategic landscape of the war. Although tactically limited, the capture of a town of Seversk’s size carries symbolic and diplomatic weight vastly disproportionate to its […]

By Elijah J. Magnier – The United States is no longer seeking decisive battlefield outcomes. Instead, it is enforcing a sequencing strategy in which escalation is postponed, conflicts are frozen, and economic–political frameworks take precedence. Israel, long accustomed to shaping events through military initiative, now finds itself increasingly constrained by this approach. As widely anticipated, […]