It鈥檚 been another barnburner week in world politics, and for a change some of the biggest events were neither generated by nor centered on .
Not that America鈥檚 president didn鈥檛 make waves. Tariffs rose and fell with the usual dizzying speed, and the trade standoff between the U.S. and China began to register in collapsing demand for shipping containers and airfreight deliveries. A dramatic mini-summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump in St. Peter鈥檚 Basilica heralded a possible thaw in U.S.-Ukrainian relations as more Trump officials expressed frustration with the Kremlin鈥檚 response to American peace proposals.