Ahead of her meeting with Joe Biden, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will come to Hudson to discuss the conflict in Gaza and the challenge Iran poses, assess the state of the war in Ukraine, and explain Brussels’s view on China’s rise.

Last week’s events should be a wake-up call that Biden’s effort at détente with Tehran has destabilized the entire region and emboldened Hamas, argues Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.

After he appeared on Sky News Australia to discuss the American carrier groups near Israel, Director of the Hudson Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran discussed the broader geopolitical fallout from Hamas’s attacks on Israel on C‑SPAN’s Washington Journal.

Hamas’s strategy of human sacrifice is solely responsible for civilian casualties in Gaza, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Douglas J. Feith in the Free Press.

By giving Ukraine a few additional technologies, the United States could allow Kyiv to destroy the bridge connecting Crimea with Russia and gain vital leverage. Hudson Senior Fellows Bryan Clark and Can Kasapoğlu explain how in a new memo.

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The destruction of the Balticconnector pipeline might be Russia’s latest act of asymmetrical warfare against America’s NATO allies, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey in Arab News.