I write very honestly in the book what I really did not manage well: doing enough for climate protection.

Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer always said to me: 'If you only wanted to, you could achieve more!'

I personally don't believe that.

I have to live with the fact that someone says: 'If you had just banged on the table, maybe you would have gotten more out of it.'

Source: Hessischer Rundfunk

There are leaders around the world who refrain from expressing public support for Israel, yet they speak very differently in private conversations with me.

They tell me: "Mr. Prime Minister, we are with you. Public opinion in our countries does not allow us to say so openly—but we admire you. We need your help."

US intelligence has been assisting with detailed mapping of Russian air defenses, route planning, and battle damage assessment to help Ukrainian drones evade defenses and re-strike repaired facilities.

May 2026 saw a record 16 successful refinery strikes in a single month.

The campaign has knocked 20–40% of Russian refining capacity offline at times, forced domestic fuel shortages and export bans, and pulled significant air defense resources away from other fronts.

Russia repairs and adapts, but the cumulative economic and logistical drain is real and sustained.

Source: FT

It is Fiji’s first military alliance and Australia’s fourth, alongside the U.S., New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, reinforcing Canberra’s push to curb China’s influence in the Pacific.

Source: The Guardian

China called it routine training with a dummy warhead.

New Zealand protested the short notice, while Australia called the test “destabilizing” for the region.

Source: BBC

Our warriors showed good results today in shooting down drones and cruise missiles, but unfortunately not against Russian ballistics.

The reason is precisely insufficient supplies of interceptor missiles.

It is very important that the world — first and foremost America and our European partners — leave the NATO summit in Ankara with strong decisions to support our sky defense, and therefore the defense of ordinary people's lives.

As long as Patriot missiles remain in allied warehouses, it only encourages Russia to keep 'defeating' residential buildings.

The US and Europe have enough power to stop this terror.

With no aides, phones, or cameras, they openly vented their frustration and anxiety over Trump's actions, including his threats toward Greenland and broader shifts in U.S. policy.

The discussion centered on a once-unthinkable question: whether Europe needed to prepare for a future in which America was no longer a dependable ally.

French President Emmanuel Macron concluded that "there is no going back," while most leaders agreed Europe had to become more strategically independent, though Italy's Giorgia Meloni argued Trump could still be reasoned with.

Source: WSJ