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Malibu, California, USA: A pickup truck with a President Donald Trump decal and decorated in U.S. Flags drives on Pacific Coast Highway on July 4th in Malibu, California.

(Credit Image: © Jonathan Alcorn/ZUMA Press Wire)

Opinion: US in the driver’s seat

Nearly six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the most notable export from the United States in 2025 has been political risk. As was evident from the earliest executive orders on foreign policy and trade policy, the administration has set for itself an ambitious, aspirational agenda. From Greenland to Iran, Ukraine and Brazil, the Trump 2.0 wish list is expansive and numerous. The world has been put on notice that nowhere will go unconsidered.
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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the massacre of 643 persons by Nazi German forces, in Oradour-sur-Glane, France, June 10, 2024.

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Macron rolls the dice on France’s future

Following a humbling 17-point defeat to Marine Le Pen’s far-right opposition party in the EU Parliament elections this weekend, France’s President Emmanuel Macron shocked the world by calling for snap elections to be held on June 30.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also suffered defeat to the far-right over the weekend, but he rejected demands for him to follow in Macron’s footsteps and call a snap election.

Macron’s logique: Macron is daring French voters to vote the same way domestically that they did this weekend for the European Parliament – which has long been seen as a protest vote.

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