Taken together, this week’s developments paint a picture of a global order in rapid, often unsettling motion. The killing of Hamas’s military chief continues a pattern of targeted eliminations that reshapes but does not resolve the Middle East conflict. The Trump-Xi summit revealed both the necessity and the limits of great-power diplomacy. Germany’s disillusionment with America, Russia’s passport maneuvers in Moldova, and the US outsourcing its deportees to West Africa all point to the same conclusion: the rules-based international order that defined the post-Cold War era is being rewritten in real time — often without a clear draft in hand.
Walter Murrow
May 16, 2026
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