Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (June 30-July 4, 2025)

The leaders of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, just finished their annual Summit in The Hague in The Netherlands, as Ukraine continues its existential fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion that began more than three years ago. That invasion, preceded six years earlier by the capture of Crimea and parts…

When President Donald Trump huddled with his advisors in the Situation Room last Friday night, the first and most important question should have been: What is the best policy option to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon? The answer is beyond dispute: The best possible way to guarantee that…

In the days following Operation Midnight Hammer—the June 22 strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites—the White House projected a confident verdict. In his address to the American people just hours after the operation, President Donald Trump declared  the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program—a claim he repeated three days later.…