Even before the new Trump administration began to erode U.S. influence on autocratic countries, a diverse array of experts started to rethink the future of global democracy.

Putin welcomed the idea of sweeping joint defense cuts and suggested the world's biggest defense spender could join.

Putin is desperate for U.S. businesses to return to stave off his economic collapse, write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian

The divide between the U.S. and our allies is growing over Russia's war in Ukraine due to President Trump's comments about Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and his refusal to call Russian President Putin a dictator.

Mr Trump is the guiding force of the talks, the early throes of which have started—without any input or representation from Ukraine and Europe—in Saudi Arabia. If he chooses to include Europe at all,