When President Trump announced the cancellation of all meetings with Iran, while simultaneously urging Iranian protesters to persist with the promise that “help is on its way,” the move was widely read as abrupt and emotionally charged. Yet the deeper significance of the decision lies not merely in its tone, but in its timing. This…
Diplomacy Without Moral Gravity
Yesterday’s negotiations between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump arrive at a moment of deep fatigue: military, political, and psychological. After years of war, there’s a natural hunger for an off-ramp, a framework that promises stability and relief from endless escalation. The talks are presented as pragmatic, results-oriented, and refreshingly unconcerned with ideological grandstanding. That tone…
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