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Trump Flips the Global Script

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Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 29, 2025. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on September 29, 2025. (Getty Images)

What a week: Suspected Russian drones disrupted air traffic across northern Europe while Moscow pounded Kyiv with record-breaking assaults. In the Middle East both fighting and diplomacy intensified. Throughout it all, the least conventional and most chaos-loving American president of all time still managed to dominate the world’s headlines.

On Gaza, President Trump pledged to Arab leaders on Sept. 23 that he wouldn’t allow Israel to annex any portion of the West Bank. That opened a new chapter in the difficult conversations over the end of the war and prepared the way for a major peace initiative.

Read in The Wall Street Journal.