On Monday, as I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had been a morning of Trump updates that weren’t just upsetting, but also befuddling.
Trump’s incoming administration could create certain risks for Germany, including putting more pressure on its weak economy.
Europe warns its airlines to stay away through next summer, as Ukraine turns skies of western Russia into a battlefield.
If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has prospered as a result of the International Space Station partnership. Without that partnership, Russia would not be any kind of space power,
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.