It’s been another barnburner week in world politics, and for a change some of the biggest events were neither generated by nor centered on Donald Trump.
Not that America’s president didn’t make waves. Tariffs rose and fell with the usual dizzying speed, and the trade standoff between the U.S. and China began to register in collapsing demand for shipping containers and airfreight deliveries. A dramatic mini-summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump in St. Peter’s Basilica heralded a possible thaw in U.S.-Ukrainian relations as more Trump officials expressed frustration with the Kremlin’s response to American peace proposals.