On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, Israel’s abstention from the latest military strikes on Iran, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s management of his generals, and what is going on with the United States–Saudi Arabia nuclear deal.
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A truck drives through the Alataw Pass Comprehensive Bonded Zone in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala in Xinjiang, the Alataw Pass borders Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)