"If 2025 was already shaping up to be the worst year of the century for the post-1945 rules-based world order, the past week has been its most destructive week yet. Israel deepened its disregard for international conventions by sending 10 fighter jets to Qatar, bombing a Hamas delegation participating in ceasefire talks in Doha. The last meaningful forum for diplomatic negotiation may now have gone up in smoke."
"At least 19 Russian drones violated Poland's airspace. For the first time in its history, Nato airpower was engaged against enemy targets inside a Nato country. Whether the incursion was a technical mishap or deliberate probing by Moscow, as western experts believe, this was the closest we have been to open conflict since the second world war, Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, said."
"And then Charlie Kirk, a firebrand conservative activist and close Donald Trump ally, was shot dead while addressing college students and Maga supporters at a Utah university. Without evidence of the shooter's identity or motives, Trump immediately blamed those on the radical left, accusing them of rhetoric directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today. Asked how the divided nation could heal after Kirk's assassination, Trump said he couldn't care less."
A concentrated series of events in 2025 significantly eroded post-1945 international norms and increased the risk of broader conflict. Israel launched a strike on a Hamas delegation in Doha, undermining ceasefire negotiations. Nineteen Russian drones violated Polish airspace, prompting NATO airpower to engage enemy targets within a NATO country for the first time and raising fears of near-open conflict. In the United States, the assassination of a prominent conservative figure intensified partisan blame and revealed deepening polarization. Political leaders' rhetoric amplified tribalism and misrepresented the sources of extremist violence, exacerbating domestic tensions.
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