Special to WorldTribune.com By John Gizzi, April 13, 2026 Hours after Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar in elections Sunday night, American observers were wondering what kind of prime minister Hungary would have — particularly after 16 years of Orban, a favorite of President Donald Trump who was […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump has consistently opposed “blank check” funding for Ukraine, stating in 2025 that the U.S. would focus on stopping the conflict. Media have slammed Trump for supposedly shutting off the funding spigot to Ukraine. That spigot, however, was permanently turned on by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 6, 2026 NATO is again in the rhetorical cross hairs as the Trump Administration has called out some European members for not allowing American aircraft transit through U.S. European bases. Nor have the Europeans rallied to politically help the United States confront Iran’s blockade of the strategic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 31, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald J. Trump has popularized his foreign policy by making it instantly and simultaneously accessible to the great unwashed global population as well as to foreign policy elites — the good, the bad and the ugly. He does so in sizzling social media posts that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by John J. Metzler, March 31, 2026 As embattled Ukraine faces its fifth Spring of war there’s an unsettling reality that the central European country’s conflict is clearly overshadowed and sadly overlooked since the U.S./Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Indeed, both the urgency and economic downstream effects of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 17, 2026 As the Iran War enters its third week of largely aerial and seaborne combat, there’s laser-like focus on the Straits of Hormuz and the wider Persian Gulf. Iran quite predictably has closed the narrow sea-lane to shipping and thus jolted oil markets from the Middle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 25, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech “hit the ball out of the park” during the recent Munich Security Conference in Germany. The address provided a policy tour de force which recalled the Cold War, post-communist history and then seamlessly blended the topic into a cohesive […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 22, 2026 Real World News By Richard Fisher for Geostrategy-Direct, February 17, 2026 Since 1963, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has served as an annual meeting ground for European and American foreign policy elites, spanning the Cold War and into the new era of multiple powers, enabling constant European and American […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 26, 2026 Location, Location, Location. Whether in real estate or international politics, the physical location of a particular property, country or sea-lane plays into its geopolitical importance. From Manhattan to Miami, from Singapore to Suez and Gibraltar to Greenland, so much is determined by the location and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2026 Real World News President Donald Trump on Jan. 17, 2026, escalated his campaign to “acquire” Greenland on behalf of the national security of the United States and its allies. He put on notice Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland after reports that several […]
