In her inaugural event as Hudson’s Walter P. Stern Chair, Ambassador Nikki Haley will discuss the dangers of American national security weakness. Watch live today at 4:00 p.m. EDT.

Benny Gantz has thrown down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—the man both the Israeli elite and American policymakers see as Israel’s true foe. Michael Doran explains what this means for Israel and its relationship with the United States in Tablet.

“Either we and our allies recover our military might and political will, or our foes will fatally undermine the edifice of American power and the international order that depends on it,” warns Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.

Despite recent turbulence, the US-Türkiye relationship is too important for either side to dismiss it as a lost cause, argues Luke Coffey.

For many on the American right, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defense of traditional values absolves all other sins. But as Hungary grows closer to China, Daniel Kochis writes that Americans should not fall for Orbán’s games.

BEFORE YOU GO...

Thomas J. Duesterberg will host two premier experts on the US budget, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and William Beach, to discuss how the US can rein in chronic federal deficit spending today at 9:30 a.m. EDT.