The US attack on Venezuela marks another decisive breach of the international rules-based order, signalling a world in which power increasingly overrides law and civilians bear the cost.

Donald Trump’s boast of striking a “drug boat” off Venezuela exposes how America’s border has become a theatre of lethal sovereignty, where the state redefines law through violence and turns open seas into instruments of exclusion and death.

Donald Trump’s call to resume US nuclear weapons testing shatters decades of restraint, risks triggering a new global arms race, and exposes a perilous ignorance of nuclear policy and deterrence.

Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire may have halted the killing, but its vague promises and absence of accountability risk turning a fragile truce into the prelude to another war.

Trump’s second term has seen him act as both a broker of high-profile peace deals and a provocateur of dangerous crises, using transactional diplomacy that offers short-term relief but risks long-term instability.