Syria's future is not being decided in Damascus alone. It is being shaped in Suwayda, in Ankara, in Tel Aviv, in the northeast, and in Doha and Moscow as much as in Washington.

The debate surrounding Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency has raised a concern in global politics: whether alliances can remain effective when their principal anchor increasingly approaches them as transactional arrangements rather than strategic commitments. For investors, policymakers, and multilateral actors, this is less a question of leadership style than of systemic resilience. Recent remarks by Finnish President Alexander Stubb, in conversation with Foreign A