Turkey viewed Israel’s war with Iran as part of a broader strategy to reshape the Middle East—and it doesn’t like the new regional order that’s forming.

With a recent wave of arrests and expropriations, as well as possible assassinations, Putin appears to be turning on more of Russia’s rich and powerful.

“Listening and responding appropriately to dissent in all its forms is a hallmark of democracy and political leadership. Yet the Ruto administration is stumbling from crisis to crisis because it refuses to listen to what Kenyans are saying.”.

Fiji has experienced decades of political turbulence fueled by deep divisions between its two main communities. Now, it hopes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission will help to heal those divisions by addressing the country’s history of coups head on.

Many observers predicted Trump would seek to dismantle the liberal international order in his second term. But as @ProfPaulPoast writes, based on recent summits, the international order appears to be doing just fine. Not great. Not optimal. But fine.

In Turkey’s reading, rapidly changing regional dynamics in the Middle East seem to be inexorably leading to outcomes it finds undesirable. As Sinem Adar writes, Ankara is responding accordingly.

Russian oligarchs have been the targets of an accelerating wave of arrest, expropriations and even possible assassinations. The main suspect is Putin’s regime.

When William Ruto was campaigning for president in 2022, he crisscrossed Kenya promising young people that he would listen to them and prioritize their needs. Now, he’s responding to youth-led protests with violent repression.

RT @GiorgioCafiero: “Ankara had ample reasons to be concerned about the consequences of escalation between Israel and Iran…” writes @sinema….

Despite predictions that Trump would dismantle the liberal international order, recent summits suggest it is largely how it’s always been, @ProfPaulPoast writes.

Israel’s war with Iran signaled the latest shift toward a new regional order that Turkey finds undesirable. As Sinem Adar writes, Ankara is responding accordingly.

RT @ProfPaulPoast: The Liberal International Order is not collapsing. But it's also not thriving. Instead, it's what the order has always….

Germany’s procurement of thousands of tanks has faced criticism for being outdated. But armored vehicles are still an important part of warfare.

Fiji hopes a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on its history of violent coups can heal the divisions between its two main communities.

The opaqueness of China’s political system and its lack of an institutionalized process for political succession are problems with global implications.

Gnassingbe’s latest power grab in Togo was met with rare public protests. But unlike past mobilizations, they were not organized by political parties or civil society organizations, but instead by young people online.

Detentions of prominent figures and suspicious deaths of powerful people are nothing new in Putin’s Russia. But as @FridaGhitis writes, the pace of such occurrences is accelerating.

The Ruto administration has tried to frame Kenya’s protest movement as acts of terrorism and even an uprising. But as @Nanjala1 writes, the real crisis is Ruto’s own intolerance for dissent and inability to engage with Kenyan citizens except by fiat.

“Declaring that the tank is obsolete or that drone warfare represents the future of warfare is easy. But would those who make these arguments actually spend no money on tanks, or invest all of their state’s defense budget in drones?”.

Fiji has experienced decades of political turbulence fueled by deep divisions between its two main communities. Now, it hopes a new commission will help to heal those divisions by addressing the country’s history of coups head on, Catherine Wilson writes.